qr-filetransfer-universal

📁 Send files from your Computer to your Phone through WiFi with a QR code

About

This is a handy little python 3 program that allows you to send files or folders through your Local Area Network (inside your WiFi) by simply scanning a QR Code through your phone! The code is based off sdushantha's amazing work with some added stuff that I found useful plus compatibility with Windows aside from macOS and Linux.

Note that on Windows, the QR Code won't appear inside the powershell/cmd window but instead through an image viewer.

Installation

Windows:

Just download and run the latest executable from the releases page above. Alternatively you can do it with the Python script:

1. Install Python 3 if you don't have it.
2. Open powershell and execute: pip install pyqrcode
3. Download the qr-filetransfer-universal.py file from here
4. Run it!

Linux / macOS:

# clone the repo
> git clone https://github.com/CedArctic/qr-filetransfer-universal.git

# install the requirements
> pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Usage

Just double click the .py file and drag and drop inside whatever you want to send! Alternatively you can also use the program this way through the command line:

qr-filetransfer-universal.py [-h] -f FILE

Note: Both devices needs to be connected to the same network

Exiting

To exit the program, just press CTRL+C. Dont press CTRL+Z.

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Transfer a single file

python3 qr-filetransfer-universal.py -f /path/to/file.txt

Transfer a full directory. Note: the directory gets zipped before being transferred

python3 qr-filetransfer-universal.py -f /path/to/directory/

Credits

• Based off sdushantha's qr-filetransfer
• Inspired by the Go project qr-filetransfer

License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2018 CedArctic