shellshare

Share files over a p2p network blazingly fast.

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Features

• Tracker-based peer discovery
• Seamless peer-to-peer file sharing
• CLI interface with multiple commands and flags
• Support for uploading and downloading files
• Search functionality for available files in the network
• Robust error handling and graceful peer disconnection

Dependencies

• Rust (>= 1.70)
• Cargo
• tokio
• clap
• serde / serde_json

Running

Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/sofaspawn/p2p-file-sharing.git
cd p2p-file-sharing

Build the project

cargo build --release

Download binary locally

cargo install --path .

Run the tracker

shellshare tracker --port 8080

Run a peer

shellshare peer --tracker 127.0.0.1:8080 --port 9001

Commands

• Upload a file

shellshare peer --tracker 127.0.0.1:8080 --port 9001 upload <file_path>

• Download a file

shellshare peer --tracker 127.0.0.1:8080 --port 9001 download <file_name>

• List available files

shellshare peer --tracker 127.0.0.1:8080 --port 9001 list

Contributors

sofaspawn

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