Calling on the collective wisdom. What are people using th4eses days to share files with customers beside Dropbox? Preferably something that can be accessed via APIs.
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I use Send Anywhere (https://send-anywhere.com/), a free service for files up to 10gb. Alas, no API.
Mike
-----Original Message----- From: Richard Kaye [mailto:rkaye@invaluable.com] Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2020 2:52 PM To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: File sharing services
Calling on the collective wisdom. What are people using th4eses days to share files with customers beside Dropbox? Preferably something that can be accessed via APIs.
TIA
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I use both Send-Anywhere and Dropbox regularly, but occasionally I fall back on my self-hosted FileZilla server for really big stuff in one-off scenarios.
Not sure about API's. Wouldn't that require programming on the client side to grab data, unless you are building some kind of automated transfer process?
For regular scheduled transfers via Backblaze Cloud space, I use Syncovery to handle the automated uploads and downloads on each end.
Paul H. Tarver
-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Michael Glassman Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2020 4:07 PM To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: RE: File sharing services
I use Send Anywhere (https://send-anywhere.com/), a free service for files up to 10gb. Alas, no API.
Mike
-----Original Message----- From: Richard Kaye [mailto:rkaye@invaluable.com] Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2020 2:52 PM To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: File sharing services
Calling on the collective wisdom. What are people using th4eses days to share files with customers beside Dropbox? Preferably something that can be accessed via APIs.
TIA
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You tripped me up with the API request. Perhaps you can explain a bit more what you're doing.
On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 4:52 PM Richard Kaye rkaye@invaluable.com wrote:
Calling on the collective wisdom. What are people using th4eses days to share files with customers beside Dropbox? Preferably something that can be accessed via APIs.
TIA
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Oh Ted... Always with the questions... 😉
We have a new web-based version of our auction system application (built on top of WWWC) where inventory images are stored. We want to provide a reasonable mechanism for the client to get all the images associated with an auction. In some cases this could be several thousand images. We're kicking around various ideas on how to do this. By "api", which is a fancy new term I've learned now that I'm not just writing VFP code anymore, I just mean some service that can manipulated programmatically. For example, I could bundle up my files and upload to some file transfer service and send the customer the link to download that bundle.
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-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com On Behalf Of Ted Roche Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2020 5:13 PM To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: File sharing services
You tripped me up with the API request. Perhaps you can explain a bit more what you're doing.
On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 4:52 PM Richard Kaye rkaye@invaluable.com wrote:
Calling on the collective wisdom. What are people using th4eses days to share files with customers beside Dropbox? Preferably something that can be accessed via APIs.
TIA
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And thanks to Ed., Tracy, Paul, Kurt and Michael for the suggestions. Lots of things to start researching now.
And thanks to Ted, of course, for encouraging me to not ask vague questions if I want more than vague answers. 😊
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-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com On Behalf Of Richard Kaye Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2020 6:23 PM To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: RE: File sharing services
Oh Ted... Always with the questions... 😉
We have a new web-based version of our auction system application (built on top of WWWC) where inventory images are stored. We want to provide a reasonable mechanism for the client to get all the images associated with an auction. In some cases this could be several thousand images. We're kicking around various ideas on how to do this. By "api", which is a fancy new term I've learned now that I'm not just writing VFP code anymore, I just mean some service that can manipulated programmatically. For example, I could bundle up my files and upload to some file transfer service and send the customer the link to download that bundle.
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-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com On Behalf Of Ted Roche Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2020 5:13 PM To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: File sharing services
You tripped me up with the API request. Perhaps you can explain a bit more what you're doing.
On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 4:52 PM Richard Kaye rkaye@invaluable.com wrote:
Calling on the collective wisdom. What are people using th4eses days to share files with customers beside Dropbox? Preferably something that can be accessed via APIs.
TIA
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On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 6:23 PM Richard Kaye rkaye@invaluable.com wrote:
Oh Ted... Always with the questions... 😉
It's a gift. And a curse.
The problem I've found with my Irish tendency to answer a question with a question is that it always seems to lead... to more questions. :)
We have a new web-based version of our auction system application (built on top of WWWC) where inventory images are stored. We want to provide a reasonable mechanism for the client to get all the images associated with an auction. In some cases this could be several thousand images. We're kicking around various ideas on how to do this. By "api", which is a fancy new term I've learned now that I'm not just writing VFP code anymore, I just mean some service that can manipulated programmatically. For example, I could bundle up my files and upload to some file transfer service and send the customer the link to download that bundle.
So, you already have a web server set up. With WWWC. And a web app that shows the images that are all uploaded. And an ability for the sellers to register and manage their accounts.
If you're planning to bundle up the files, why not just provide the customer a link on your web site and not pay someone else a premium to host the files? For security purposes (not that anyone couldn't already spider them off the site), you could require them to log in.
It's a gift. 😊Don't let anyone else tell you different...
That's definitely one of the approaches we're contemplating. All our servers are now hosted in AWS so we're paying someone anyway.
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-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com On Behalf Of Ted Roche Sent: Friday, April 24, 2020 10:45 AM To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: File sharing services
On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 6:23 PM Richard Kaye rkaye@invaluable.com wrote:
Oh Ted... Always with the questions... 😉
It's a gift. And a curse.
The problem I've found with my Irish tendency to answer a question with a question is that it always seems to lead... to more questions. :)
We have a new web-based version of our auction system application (built on top of WWWC) where inventory images are stored. We want to provide a reasonable mechanism for the client to get all the images associated with an auction. In some cases this could be several thousand images. We're kicking around various ideas on how to do this. By "api", which is a fancy new term I've learned now that I'm not just writing VFP code anymore, I just mean some service that can manipulated programmatically. For example, I could bundle up my files and upload to some file transfer service and send the customer the link to download that bundle.
So, you already have a web server set up. With WWWC. And a web app that shows the images that are all uploaded. And an ability for the sellers to register and manage their accounts.
If you're planning to bundle up the files, why not just provide the customer a link on your web site and not pay someone else a premium to host the files? For security purposes (not that anyone couldn't already spider them off the site), you could require them to log in.
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I use WeTransfer.com - but probably not what seek.
Does Google drive have API access???
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On Thu, Apr 23, 2020, 1:52 PM Richard Kaye rkaye@invaluable.com wrote:
Calling on the collective wisdom. What are people using th4eses days to share files with customers beside Dropbox? Preferably something that can be accessed via APIs.
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Amazon's S3 using the AWS command line to upload. Then it's a URL to download that our software will ask a service we have if the customer can have the link, and what the temporary link is for the customer. I understand it's not very expensive. Last I heard we spend less than $5 US per month for what is stored and the bandwidth used.
Tracy
-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Kurt Wendt Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2020 6:01 PM To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: File sharing services
I use WeTransfer.com - but probably not what seek.
Does Google drive have API access???
-K-
On Thu, Apr 23, 2020, 1:52 PM Richard Kaye rkaye@invaluable.com wrote:
Calling on the collective wisdom. What are people using th4eses days to share files with customers beside Dropbox? Preferably something that can
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On Apr 23, 2020, at 15:52, Richard Kaye rkaye@invaluable.com wrote:
Calling on the collective wisdom. What are people using th4eses days to share files with customers beside Dropbox? Preferably something that can be accessed via APIs.
I prefer box.com over Dropbox (long story). They have full API access: https://developer.box.com/reference/
— Ed
I used either a shared OneDrive folder or Firefox Send (yes that Firefox).
You could write your own api to publish to your customers' use. I write apis that move data and not files. Maybe you could create the API that was able to publish a file list from a secured folder and then a second one to receive a check list that identifies what documents they want to receive?
On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 3:52 PM Richard Kaye rkaye@invaluable.com wrote:
Calling on the collective wisdom. What are people using th4eses days to share files with customers beside Dropbox? Preferably something that can be accessed via APIs.
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