- Copy the content of "server code" folder on your virtual machine or any machine (Only linux) on which you want to host your service.
- Go to the directory where you saved the content and run
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- chmod +x install.sh
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- sudo ./install.sh
- Provide your ip(type anything here it won't matter) and port (here be careful what you are typing because you are going to use it on client side)
- Now service will install and to check the status run the command systemctl status my_cloud.service You will the status = running
- To stop this service anything run sudo systemctl stop my_cloud.service
- To start it again run sudo systemctl start my_cloud.service
- Just copy the content of client code on your client pc
- open the config.json file and type change the ip value to ip of your server machine (make sure that ip is ecnlosed in double quotes) and port (without quotes)
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To send any file or directory just run python3 send.py absolute_path_of_file_or_folder_with_quotes (remember the quoutes otherwise things can be very messy)
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Now the more interesting scripts is get.py. When you will run get.py it will give you list of all the files which are there in your server download_folder If there are none it will exit. So use send.py atleast once to make sure that you have atleast one file in your download folder on server.
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Now you can select a file or folder by typing its index.
It will give you 4 option
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- dowload - Choosing this one will download the file or complete directory (if its a directory) on your pc
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- compress - Choosing this will result in compressing the video file. It will only work on video files. If you choose this option on a directory it will recursive compress all the video files present in it.
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- delete - this will delete any file or folder which you selected
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- download torrent - here name is bit confusing but this can be use to download any link like direct link, magnet link, ftp link etc. You can also download torrent from a file if you don't have a magnet by first sending that torrent file to the server using send.py and then choosing this option in get.py and provide the complete name of the torrent file as input.
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For files like mp4, mpeg, avi etc one another option download screenshot is also provided which you can use to get a tiled screenshot image from the whole video.It will first ask you number of screen shot you want and then after little bit of process will give you the screenshot file.
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If you choose a directory it will give you one option to get inside it
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Also if you have knowledge about ffmpeg you can play with the command setting in compress.py to achieve desired results.
whenever you run get.py it will display the list of pending task which means those downlaodes or compressions are not done yet so don't download or delete those things.
- If you want to watch a movie but you don't have a great data pack. You can download it on vm and compress it and download it to save your data pack
- Torrent download fast on virtual machines because they are connected to high speed. So what I usually do is whenever I want to download a torrent just first downlaod it on your vm because vm can run 24/7 as compare to your pc. When it downloads there, Then download it from there only those files which you really want
- You can also use send.py and get.py on google collab to transafer data from vm to your google drive directly without having to download on your machine.
- the ip address in the config file of client side should be the ip on which you server machine is hosted. Suppose your machine is in a private netwok like in your institute or organisation then the ip will be that's mahines local ip not public ip.
- To connect over the internet you should make sure that port forwarding on your server machine is on and there is a port bound rule which bound the port which is there in the config file of server and client side.
- For any queries raise an issue :)