fileslide-streamer

Open Source drop-in service for downloading multiple files as a single zip stream.

Say you have these 2 files on the web:

• https://my-test-data-1.s3.amazonaws.com/central-park-bike-map.pdf (~1MB)
• https://s3.wasabisys.com/my-test-data-2/earth.mp4 (~1.5MB)

FileSlide lets your clients stream a ZIP download from a simple POST request:

<form action="https://fileslide.io/download" method="post">
  <input type="hidden" name="fs_file_name" value="demo_download.zip" />
  <input
    type="hidden"
    name="fs_uri_list[]"
    value="https://my-test-data-1.s3.amazonaws.com/central-park-bike-map.pdf"
  />
  <input
    type="hidden"
    name="fs_uri_list[]"
    value="https://s3.wasabisys.com/my-test-data-2/earth.mp4"
  />
  <input type="submit" value="Download Zip of 2 Files" />
</form>

Try the demo https://hello.fileslide.io/

FileSlide Streamer is a Ruby Sinatra HTTP server that: (1) receives a POST request containing a list of file URIs; (2) saves and redirects to a GET request; (3) downloads and zips the listed files in parallel; and (4) returns a single zip file.

• See official documentation here: https://hello.fileslide.io/docs

Getting Started

FileSlide Streamer is a Ruby Sinatra application.

Running locally requires the following:

• Ruby >= 2.6.6
• Redis DB

The rerun gem is also recommended for development

To get started:

• Clone the repository
• Copy the env file mv .env.example .env
• Update REDIS_URI in the .env file
• bash scripts/start_dev.sh to start the server

To run the demo with remote files and the remote test Authorization and Reporting endpoints:

• Open test/static/local/demo.html with a web browser

To run the demo with local files and the local demo Authorization and Reporting endpoints:

• bash scripts/start_dev.sh to start the server
• bash scripts/start_test_file_server.sh to start the local file server (serves from test/file_server/files)
• bash scripts/start_test_upstream_server.sh to start the local Authorization and Reporting server
• Update the .env file and set AUTHORIZATION_ENDPOINT=http://localhost:9294/authorize and REPORT_ENDPOINT=http://localhost:9294/report
• Open test/static/local/demo.html with a web browser

Testing

To run the test suite, cd test then run bundle exec rspec from the root folder of the repo. For testing the zip streaming, the test suite covers starts up a second Puma process to deliver static files from spec/fixtures. You can extend this server with extra static files or custom endpoints as needed.

Documentation

• See official documentation here: https://hello.fileslide.io/docs