filestack-python VS localtunnel

An important part of user experience in a website design is to allow users to upload photos, videos, and documents. This feature is usually called file uploading, and the process to integrate this feature is called “embed file upload in website.” Consequently, the file upload feature facilitates user interaction and engagement. File uploads are particularly important for various online services like cloud storage, online forms, and e-commerce sites.

Looking at some solution and only one I found is https://www.filestack.com?

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With certain APIs, you can assign unique events to files at any stage, from in transit to their final destination.

Web developers who want to build an application using the ReactJS or write codes for building a website must consider the react file upload to ensure that users can upload any file they need [1].

Once filestack python SDK installation is complete, create your python script with the .py extension. For example, python-url.py, edit that file and then start with an import of the Client from the Filestack Python SDK. You have run that pip installs command, right? For more information about filestack installation please visit https://www.filestack.com/docs/api/sdk/python/#installation

localtunnel/localtunnel - Written in node. Popular suggestion.

Thanks for the history. I maintain this list[0], and wasn't aware of OG localtunnel, likely because there's a somewhat newer and now more popular project with the same name[1]. You appear to be correct on timing. Here's the earliest commits on GitHub for each of the projects:

OG localtunnel (2010): https://github.com/progrium/localtunnel/tree/fb82920d9d3e538...

Other localtunnel (2012): https://github.com/localtunnel/localtunnel/tree/93d62b9dbb9f...

ngrok (2012): https://github.com/inconshreveable/ngrok/tree/8f4795ecac7f92...

I'll see that OG localtunnel gets added to the list for posterity.

[0]: https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling

[1]: https://github.com/localtunnel/localtunnel

These is a very common problem. Luckily, it's been solved already. My go-to tool for this was ngrok or localtunnel. Both of these tools are great, but they didn't fit my needs perfectly.

localtunnel — Expose locally running servers over a tunnel to a public URL. Free hosted version, and open source.

Localtunnel used to be a nice tunnel. It has gone through some enshittification lately.

> tunnel consent page now requires the tunnel creator's public IP in order to access tunnel content

https://github.com/localtunnel/localtunnel/issues/598

There are free non kafkaesque competitors out there.

I recently went through having to tunnel my development environment to setup an oauth2 flow for a rails integration. I found that using https://github.com/localtunnel/localtunnel was a better fit.

I prefer localtunnel: https://github.com/localtunnel/localtunnel

There's also Local Tunnel (http://localtunnel.me)

Not sure if it works combined with ngrok: https://www.npmjs.com/package/localtunnel