Looking for a simple way of sharing family photos/videos from a
directory
reddit / selfhosted

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gofikadags · 2023-11-27 15:30

Hi! I am looking for a simple way of sharing family photos and videos
with a few people.

Our current "workflow" is to take photos and upload them to a
directory on Dropbox. That directory is set to show the files without
any authentication. We have a script that we run periodically that
renames the files to contain the date they were taken as part of the
filename.

An example of our file tree would be:

* family
   * 2020
   * 2021
   * 2022
   * photo-xyz-2023-10-01.jpg
   * photo-xyz-2023-10-02.jpg
   * photo-xyz-2023-10-03.jpg
   * video-xyz-2023-10-04.mp4
   * photo-xyz-2023-10-05.jpg

What we need/want:

* Not a lot of advanced configuration we'll not  use
* That the directory tree (we can re-arrange the folder structure if
needed) is the "source of truth" and that the self-hosted solution
just provides a nice way of navigating and looking at the photos and
videos. In other words, if we have to import something manually when a
new photo/video is added, it's too much effort.

We'll keep using Dropbox for now, and sync the files to our home
server, which also runs docker containers.

Any ideas? I guess it could just be a web-based file browser of some
kind, which makes it easy to view photos and videos. I've mostly seen
complicated software when I've browsed around.

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pravardhan · 2023-11-27 15:50

Filebrowser? It's a web based filebrowser. I host it on all my servers

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gofikadags · 2023-11-27 18:47

I'll assume it is this one: [https://github.com/filebrowser/filebrowse
r](https://github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser)

That looks great! I tried out the demo. Hopefully, it is possible to
give read-only permissions to a user.

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austozi · 2023-11-27 21:20

Maybe check out https://github.com/bpatrik/pigallery2

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gofikadags · 2023-11-28 17:44

Thanks! Will do! Both of the suggestions seem pretty awesome.

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arcadianarcadian · 2023-11-29 12:27

I tested many photo management tools. sharing from directory;

\- pigallery

\- photoview

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gofikadags · 2023-11-29 17:37

Much appreciated! Then I have one more to try (haven't had time to
check'em out yet) in https://photoview.github.io/ . I guess pigallery
is the same as pigallery2 above?

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arcadianarcadian · 2023-11-29 17:54

yes, they're same.