pngencoder VS snapchat-fs

Compare pngencoder vs snapchat-fs and see what are their differences.

pngencoder

Encode arbitrary data on png images. (by dhilst)

snapchat-fs

Turns Snapchat into a datastore that can manage and store your files. (by hausdorff)
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Python Python
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later MIT License
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pngencoder

Posts with mentions or reviews of pngencoder. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-24.

snapchat-fs

Posts with mentions or reviews of snapchat-fs. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-22.
  • Show HN: Free Plain-Text Bookmarking
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Mar 2024
    I wrote a KV store on top of Bit.ly once: https://github.com/apg/bitdb

    And I know of a generic blob store on top of (older) Snapchat API: https://github.com/hausdorff/snapchat-fs

    It's really fun to "exploit" APIs in this way to create alternative uses.

  • YouTubeDrive: Store Files as YouTube Videos
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 May 2022
    This reminds me of SnapchatFS[1], a side project I made about 8 years ago (see also HN thread[2] at that time).

    From the README.md:

    > Since Snapchat imposes few restrictions on what data can be uploaded (i.e., not just images), I've taken to using it as a system to send files to myself and others.

    > Snapchat FS is the tool that allows this. It provides a simple command line interface for uploading arbitrary files into Snapchat, managing them, and downloading them to any other computer with access to this package.

    [1]: https://github.com/hausdorff/snapchat-fs

    [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6932508

What are some alternatives?

When comparing pngencoder and snapchat-fs you can also consider the following projects:

YouTubeDrive - Store files as YouTube videos == infinite disk space

base131072 - Binary-to-text encoding optimised for Twitter & UTF-32

redditfs - An interactive command line utility to save files and directories to Reddit.

base65536 - Unicode's answer to Base64