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Show HN: drag-drop file uploading for the whole web (Firefox/Chrome)

66 points by antimatter15 16y ago

euicho 16y ago
Has anyone installed this? First impressions?
amitagrawal 16y ago
Absolutely amazing! Bad that I can't use CloudApp and DropBox on Chrome 8!
- antimatter15 16y ago
  Sadly, Dropbox won't work anyway because they haven't approved my API key for "Production" status. It's been "In Review" for over a week now. And https://www.dropbox.com/developers/announcements https://www.dropbox.com/developers/announcements says "At this time, only mobile apps that run natively on the device are being approved."
  - antimatter15 16y ago
    It just got approved! Yay!
mishmax 16y ago
This looks good. But what I thought it would do is convert every upload file dialog to one that supports drag-and-drop. So that I don't have to re-navigate folders to select the file to upload. But instead what it does is upload the file to drag2up.appspot.com, and put a url link to that file in the input box you've dragged the file to.
- skawaii 16y ago
  You can configure it to use other services than the appspot site -- Dropbox, Cloudapp, imgur, Imm.io, Imageshack, Flickr, Picasa, Github Gist, Pastebin.com, Mysticpaste, Chemical servers, Dafk and Hotfile. Pretty good article at http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/29/drag2u/ http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/29/drag2u/.
gojomo 16y ago
Cool, though when HTML5 drop-from-desktop is completely and consistently implemented, this sort of functionality won't even require an extension.
dillon 16y ago
Maybe I'm missing something but why exactly does this app need your browsing history?
- antimatter15 16y ago
  It doesn't. And doesn't even have the permission to access your browsing history, but for some reason Google thinks it does. From the manifest file: https://github.com/antimatter15/drag2up/blob/master/manifest.json https://github.com/antimatter15/drag2up/blob/master/manifest... "permissions": ["* ://* /","tabs","contextMenus", "unlimitedStorage","notifications"] The first one is permission to communicate with arbitrary servers in order to download URLs and upload files. Tabs is used to interact with OAuth-powered hosts better. The rest just leaves room for future additions (reuploading images from a context menu, storing a cache of uploaded files, notifications for completed uploads, etc.). It doesn't request for permission to access history, and I have no idea why the Chrome web store says that that's a required permission.
bretthellman 16y ago
smart

66 points by antimatter15 16y ago

euicho 16y ago

Has anyone installed this? First impressions?

amitagrawal 16y ago

Absolutely amazing! Bad that I can't use CloudApp and DropBox on Chrome 8!

antimatter15 16y ago
Sadly, Dropbox won't work anyway because they haven't approved my API key for "Production" status. It's been "In Review" for over a week now. And https://www.dropbox.com/developers/announcements https://www.dropbox.com/developers/announcements says "At this time, only mobile apps that run natively on the device are being approved."
- antimatter15 16y ago
  It just got approved! Yay!

mishmax 16y ago

This looks good. But what I thought it would do is convert every upload file dialog to one that supports drag-and-drop. So that I don't have to re-navigate folders to select the file to upload. But instead what it does is upload the file to drag2up.appspot.com, and put a url link to that file in the input box you've dragged the file to.

skawaii 16y ago
You can configure it to use other services than the appspot site -- Dropbox, Cloudapp, imgur, Imm.io, Imageshack, Flickr, Picasa, Github Gist, Pastebin.com, Mysticpaste, Chemical servers, Dafk and Hotfile. Pretty good article at http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/29/drag2u/ http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/29/drag2u/.

gojomo 16y ago

Cool, though when HTML5 drop-from-desktop is completely and consistently implemented, this sort of functionality won't even require an extension.

dillon 16y ago

Maybe I'm missing something but why exactly does this app need your browsing history?

antimatter15 16y ago
It doesn't. And doesn't even have the permission to access your browsing history, but for some reason Google thinks it does. From the manifest file: https://github.com/antimatter15/drag2up/blob/master/manifest.json https://github.com/antimatter15/drag2up/blob/master/manifest... "permissions": ["* ://* /","tabs","contextMenus", "unlimitedStorage","notifications"] The first one is permission to communicate with arbitrary servers in order to download URLs and upload files. Tabs is used to interact with OAuth-powered hosts better. The rest just leaves room for future additions (reuploading images from a context menu, storing a cache of uploaded files, notifications for completed uploads, etc.). It doesn't request for permission to access history, and I have no idea why the Chrome web store says that that's a required permission.

bretthellman 16y ago

smart