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folder.api

folder.api turns your HTTP server's file browsing into an API you can consume via JavaScript

Usage

const filesAndFolders = await folderApiRequest(url);

filesAndFolders; //{
  "server": "nginx",
  "folders": [
    {
      "url": "https://httphttp.local/code/folder.api/server/",
      "name": "server",
      "type": "parent"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://http.local/code/folder.api/server/nginx/folder%201/",
      "name": "folder%201",
      "type": "child",
      "date": "2020-10-06T13:59:00.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "files": [
    {
      "url": "https://http.local/code/folder.api/server/nginx/Red.png",
      "name": "Red.png",
      "size": 150,
      "date": "2000-10-10T20:07:00.000Z"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://http.local/code/folder.api/server/nginx/long%20filename.jpg",
      "name": "long%20filename.jpg",
      "size": 931,
      "date": "1999-01-01T17:02:00.000Z"
    }
  ]
}

Supported features

• Query HTTP web servers with folder/directory listing enabled
• Basic metadata (size, date), if available

Supported Web Servers

• NGINX (autoindex on)
• Apache (mod_autoindex)
• IIS (enable Directory Browsing)
• Generic fallback - YMMV

License

• MIT

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