instant-file-transfer

Quickly transfer files from your terminal to your phone.

Usage

instant-file-transfer foo.jpg

Spins up an express server that will serve the file and output a QR code with that will link to the server, triggering a download of the file when scanned by your phone.

New in 3.0!

Directory support is here! Invoke it via passing the current directory as the input. ift ./

Options

-p

Set the port to use for the server, will default to 8080 if nothing is passed.

-s

Use a smaller QR code, useful if you (like me) use a quake style terminal with limited vertical height

-l

New in 2.0.0 - using a -l flag will instead generate a traditional QR code to a given URL. This will skip the web-server, and can also be used with -s. For example, to generate a small QR code link to my github profile:

ift -l https://github.com/maximumdata -s

Alias

ift is made available as an alias for instant-file-transfer

NOTE

Your phone must be on the same wifi network as the computer you are serving the file from, or must otherwise be able to access that computer's local IP.