Download files

Download a file

You can either use the UI and click the download symbol of any file you want to download or you could use a command line tool like curl or wget to retrieve the file on a command line. If you click the file name it could be opened in the browser to view the content directly depending on the file type.

$ curl localhost:8000/test.txt
test

Resumable & seekable downloads

Downloads support HTTP Range requests, so transfers can be paused and resumed instead of restarting from the beginning — useful for large files over flaky links. The same mechanism lets browsers seek within media files (audio/video) served by goshs without downloading the whole file first.

Browsers and download managers use this automatically. On the command line you can request a byte range explicitly:

# fetch only bytes 0-99 (server replies 206 Partial Content)
$ curl -r 0-99 localhost:8000/bigfile.bin -o part1

# resume an interrupted download from where it stopped
$ curl -C - localhost:8000/bigfile.bin -o bigfile.bin

Range support also applies to shared single-file links and captured SMTP attachments.

Retrieve json

You can retrieve the file listing in json format like so curl -s localhost:8000/?json | jq.

[
  {
    "name": "test.txt",
    "is_dir": false,
    "is_symlink": false,
    "symlink_target": "",
    "extension": ".txt",
    "size_bytes": 5,
    "last_modified": 1685541810000,
    "ReadOnly": false
  }
]

Bulk download files

You can also select several or all files by using the checkboxes. Then you can click the download button that gets shown to retrieve the files as a compressed archive (zip file).