Uppy - A Self Hosted and Open Source File Uploader

What is Uppy?

Uppy is a simple open source file uploading widget/library for the browser. It is so clean, simple and minimal. It allows users to focus only on the uploading files itself, rather than any other trivial issues.

Uppy is a sleek, modular JavaScript file uploader that integrates seamlessly with any application. It’s fast, has a comprehensible API and lets you worry about more important problems than building a file uploader.

• Fetch files from local disk, remote URLs, Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, Instagram or snap and record selfies with a camera
• Preview and edit metadata with a nice interface
• Upload to the final destination, optionally process/encode

Features

• Lightweight, modular plugin-based architecture, light on dependencies ⚡
• Resumable file uploads via the open tus standard, so large uploads survive network hiccups
• Supports picking files from: Webcam, Dropbox, Box, Google Drive, Instagram, bypassing the user’s device where possible, syncing between servers directly via @uppy/companion
• Works great with file encoding and processing backends, such as Transloadit, works great without (all you need is to roll your own Apache/Nginx/Node/FFmpeg/etc backend)
• Sleek user interface ✨
• Optional file recovery (after a browser crash) with Golden Retriever
• Speaks several languages (i18n) 🌍
• Built with accessibility in mind
• Free for the world, forever (as in beer 🍺, pizza 🍕, and liberty 🗽)
• Cute as a puppy, also accepts cat pictures 🐶

Final Notes and Thoughts

Uppy is a very diverse tool that can be used in many different ways to upload files using a web browser. It can be customized to suit your needs and fit your site design. It can be easily deployed using Docker Compose.

If you find Uppy useful, give it a star on the Uppy Github repo!