porygon

porygon searches the LAN for FTP servers and indexes them. You can then search the index with a web interface.

Rationale

Students often want to make some of their files available to other mates. They are also often connected to the same residence hall network and FTP is a quick and quite universal solution. Unfortunately, unlike specific file sharing software, such an infrastructure lacks the search function. Finding content is thus hard because everybody has its own way of (not) keeping their file hierarchy clean and organized.

Enter porygon, a set of simple Python programs, coming with a scanner, an indexer and a web search interface. You can finally find what you’re looking for in a matter of seconds!

Testing

You can try porygon with Docker and docker-compose:

• Clone this repository
• Copy app/local_settings.py.sample to app/local_settings.py and edit the latter:

  NETWORK = '172.17.0.0/24' # or whatever your Docker network is
  USER = 'two'
  PASSWD = 'flower'
  
  # Override delays from `settings.py` to make testing faster.
  SCAN_INTERVAL = 20
  OFFLINE_DELAY = 200
  INDEX_INTERVAL = 100
      

• Run docker-compose up
• Visit http://localhost:5000
• Increase or decrease the number of FTP servers with docker-compose scale ftp=<number>

License

See LICENSE (MIT).