pdrive is a browser-based document and file manager based on Python 3 and vue.js. If you need a quick way of browsing files on a remote server, this is the tool for you.
You can use it as a pretty alternative to python -m http.server or as a simple interface into a remote network-attached-storage drive.
It's designed to combine the excellent usability of Google Drive with the benefits of having control over your own data.
pip install pdrive
You can start a server for browsing or modifying a given directory with the following command
cd /path/to/my/directory
python -m pdrive
You can run pdrive by calling the python -m pdrive command within a directory you want to explore. Once running, you can visit the web interface at http://127.0.0.1:9999.
If you're running this on a remote server, you can use ssh port forwarding to access the web interface over an ssh connection:
ssh -N -L 9999:localhost:9999 your@host.com
SECURITY NOTE: pdrive will have all the same permissions to modify your file system as the user who started the program.
usage: python -m pdrive [-h] [-H HOST] [-p PORT]
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-H HOST, --host HOST
-p PORT, --port PORT