hpaulson/captureshare

CaptureShare is a file uploading service that features an API for uploading files, screenshots, and other content using POST requests, with a dashboard for managing your content!

CaptureShare: Your home for file sharing.

Features

• REST API build using Express for uploading, getting, deleting, and managing files

• Support for POST upload requests from services such as ShareX and MagicCap

• A beautiful dashboard built using Vue to provide a home for uploading, deleting, and managing files! (NOTE: The CaptureShare dashboard is currently a Work In Progress. Although it functions as expected, currently all features and styling has not yet been implemented)

• Fast, efficient, and very easy to setup and use!

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Getting Started

PreReq's:

• Node JS - Install the latest NodeJs LTS for your operating system, Check that it's installed by running node -v in your terminal

• MongoDB Database - This may be a MongoDB Community Server, or a MongoDB Atlas Cluster (M0 free cluster works perfect!)

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Installing CaptureShare

• CapsureShare comes pre-built for easy install. For more information on building files to contribute, read the Contributing Guidelines.

• Install the latest release of CaptureShare, named CaptureShare-VERSION

• Extract the CaptureShare-VERSION.zip file

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Configuring CaptureShare

• In your project directory (Where you extracted the zip) you will find config.json. This file is where all of your settings and configuration will be setup

• Edit config.json for the options you wish to use, which can be found below

Server Configuration: server

Server information for how CaptureShare will run

Type: Object

Example:

    "server": {
        "host": "https://google.com",
        "port": 80,
        "notAllowed": ["exe", "jar"],
        "mongoURL": "mongodb://localhost:27017/uploads",
        "useOriginalName": false,
        "nameLength": 3
    }

Property	Type	Value	Examples
host	string	The URL where CaptureShare will run - where files and content will be served	"http://157.245.250.66:3000" "https://google.com"
port	integer	The port that the CaptureShare API will run on	3000
notAllowed	string[]	An array of not-allowed file types (extentions)	["exe", "jar"]
mongoURL	string	A MongoDB Connection string for the CaptureShare database to run on	Community Server: "mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017/uploads" Atlas Cluster: "mongodb+srv://<username>:<password>@<Cluster>-bjoiv.mongodb.net/<dbname>?retryWrites=true&w=majority"
useOriginalName	boolean	Wheather CaptureShare should use the original filename when uploading a file (Only reccomended when using the Dashboard to upload files)	true false
nameLength	boolean	When useOriginalName is false, the length of the new generated file name	true false

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Users Configuration: users

Authorized users to use CaptureShare

Type: Array of Objects

Example:

    "users": [{
        "username": "user",
        "password": "1234567890"
      }, {
        "username": "user1",
         "password": "0987654321"
    }]

Property	Type	Value	Examples
username	string	The user's username	"user"
password	string	The user's password - Also used as authorization token	"1234567890"

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Webhook Configuration: webhook

Webhooks that will fire on specific events to log them

Type: Object

Example:

    "webhook": {
        "url": "https://canary.discordapp.com/api/webhooks/123456789/ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ",
        "username": "Upload Server",
        "avatar": "hhttps://www.google.com/images/logo.png",
        "events": {
            "fileUpload": "```md\n[Uploaded File]\n==============\n\n< SIZE   = {size}\n< TYPE   = {type}\n< FILE   = {file}\n\n< USER  = {user}```\n{link}",
            "fileDelete": "```md\n[Removed File]\n==============\n\n< SIZE   = {size}\n< TYPE   = {type}\n< FILE   = {file}\n\n< USER  = {user}```\n{link}"
        }
    }

Property	Type	Value	Examples
url	string	The webhook URL to send log messages ti	"https://canary.discordapp.com/api/webhooks/123456789/ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"
username	string	The username to send the webhook as	"Upload Server"
events	Object	A string to send to the webhook when that event is fired	"fileUpload": "A file was uploaded!", "fileDelete": "A file was removed!"

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Events Configuration: webhook.events

Events that trigger webhook messages to fire

Type: Array of Objects

Example:

    "users": [{
        "username": "user",
        "password": "1234567890"
      }, {
        "username": "user1",
         "password": "0987654321"
    }]

Property	Type	Value	Examples
fileUpload	string	Event fired when a new file is uploaded - Supports markdown	"```md\n[Uploaded File]\n==============\n\n< SIZE = {size}\n< TYPE = {type}\n< FILE = {file}\n\n< USER = {user}```\n{link}"
fileDelete	string	Event fired when a new file is uploaded - Supports markdown	"```md\n[Removed File]\n==============\n\n< SIZE = {size}\n< TYPE = {type}\n< FILE = {file}\n\n< USER = {user}```\n{link}"

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Event Replacers

Replacers are used to insert file information into webhook events using curly braces

Example:

"```{type} {link}"

Property	Type	Value	Examples
user	string	The name of the user that caused the event	"{user}"
file	string	The name of the file that caused the event	"{file}"
size	string	The size of the file that caused the event	"{size}"
type	string	The type of the file that caused the event	"{type}"
timestamp	string	The timestamp that caused the event	"{timestamp}"
link	string	The link of the file	"{link}"

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Meta Configuration: meta

Website meta data

Type: Array of Objects

Example:

    "meta": {
        "title": "This is a title",
        "description": "This is a description",
        "name": "This is a name",
        "url": "https://google.com",
        "image": "https://www.google.com/images/logo.png",
        "thumbnail": "https://www.google.com/images/logo.png",
        "color": "000000"
    }

Property	Type	Value	Examples
title	string	The meta title	"This is a title"
description	string	The meta description	"This is a description"
name	string	The meta name	"This is a name"
url	string	The meta URL	"https://google.com"
image	string	The meta image	"ttps://www.google.com/images/logo.png"
thumbnail	string	The meta thumbnail	"ttps://www.google.com/images/logo.png"
color	string	The meta color in HEX	"000000"

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Running CaptureShare

Node

Running CaptureShare using just node

• In the project directory, run node index.js to start CaptureShare

PM2

Most likely you will need to keep CaptureShare running 24/7. For this, we reccomend using pm2

Install:

• In the project directory: npm i pm2

Start CaptureShare:

• In the project directory: pm2 start index.js

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Serving CaptureShare

For serving CaptureShare, we reccomend using an Nginx Reverse Proxy.

Reccomended Config:

    listen 80;
    server_name google.com;

    location / {
        proxy_pass         http://127.0.0.1:3000;

        proxy_set_header   Host                 $host;
        proxy_set_header   X-Real-IP            $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header   X-Forwarded-For      $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        proxy_set_header   X-Forwarded-Proto    $scheme;
    }
}

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Uploading Files to CaptureShare

Uploading files to CaptureShare can be done using a POST request

Request

* = Requiered

Property	Value
*Route	https://[host]/api/upload
*Header	authorization: [User Password]
*Header	content-type: multipart/form-data
Header	client: true(Provides more data used by the dashboard - Changes response payload)
*Image Body	file

Response

Type: Object

Property	Value
url	https://[host]/image.png

Client Response

Contains more data for the dashboard, when client header is true - Should not be used manually

Type: Object

Property	Value	Example
status	HTTP Status Code	200
message	HTTP Status message	OK
data	Database Data about the uploaded file	[{staus: 200, message: "OK", data: {_id: "file.png", uploadedAt: "2020-06-09T01:33:52.814Z", user: "user", fileType: "image/png", fileSize: "186.968KB"}}]

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Deleting Files from CaptureShare

Deleting files to CaptureShare can be done using a DELETE request

Request

NOTE: Using "all" as the File ID will delete all files

* = Requiered

Property	Value
*Route	https://[host]/api/upload/[File ID]
*Header	authorization: [User Password]

Response

Type: Object

Property	Value	Example
status	HTTP Status Code	200
message	HTTP Status message	OK
data	Empty Array	[]

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Getting Files from CaptureShare

Getting files to CaptureShare can be done using a GET request

Request

* = Requiered

Property	Value
*Route	https://[host]/api/upload/
*Header	authorization: [User Password]

Response

Type: Object

Property	Value	Example
status	HTTP Status Code	200
message	HTTP Status message	OK
data	Array containing database objects for all uploaded files	[{staus: 200, message: "OK", data: {_id: "file.png", uploadedAt: "2020-06-09T01:33:52.814Z", user: "user", fileType: "image/png", fileSize: "186.968KB"}}]

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Contributing

Want to contribute? Please head over to our Contributing Guidelines to learn more!

captureshare's Issues

Create function to check login data

Problem

• Currently, Checking for user sign-in is heavily duplicated, unnecessarily complex, and overall ugly and inefficient.

Solution

• To fix this issue, Create a function for checking login data, rather than having repeat code in every route to check this data.

Current Code Duplication

CaptureShare/server/src/routes/api/upload.ts

Line 116 in 6e698a8

let loggedUser: {

CaptureShare/server/src/routes/api/upload.ts

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let loggedUser: {

CaptureShare/server/src/routes/api/upload.ts

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let loggedUser: {