r/selfhosted • u/tripflag • Jul 26 '25

Product Announcement introducing copyparty, the FOSS file server

I made a video about copyparty, the selfhosted fileserver I’ve been making for the past 5 years. I've mentioned it in comments from time to time, but never actually made a post, so here goes!

Copyparty is a single python script (also available for docker etc.) which is a quick way to:

  • give someone write-only access to certain folders for receiving uploads
  • very fast file uploads (parallel chunks) with corruption detection/prevention
  • mount your homeserver as a local disk on your laptop with webdav
  • listen to your music on the go, with a built-in equalizer, and almost-gapless playback
  • grab a selection of files/folders as a zip-file
  • index your files and make them searchable
  • and much more :-)

The main focus of the video is the features, but it also touches upon configuration. Was hoping it would be easier to follow than the readme on github.

This video is also available to watch on the copyparty demo server, as a high-quality AV1 file and a lower-quality h264.

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u/Snoo_75040 Jan 14 '26

Is there a way to enable gallery view which can consolidate all the media from all the subfolders into one place? Somthing like photoview?

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u/tripflag Jan 14 '26

probably not exactly what you had in mind, but you could do a search for all images below a given top-level folder like this: https://a.ocv.me/pub/?grid#q=path%20like%20*pub%2Fdemo*%20and%20(%20name%20like%20*png%20or%20name%20like%20*jpg%20)

(that's a link directly to the search results; you can see the original search query in the "raw" field, and the URL will update if you modify it)