snapchat-fs VS YouTubeDrive

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

snapchat-fs

Turns Snapchat into a datastore that can manage and store your files. (by hausdorff)

YouTubeDrive

Store files as YouTube videos == infinite disk space (by dzhang314)
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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

YouTubeDrive

Posts with mentions or reviews of YouTubeDrive. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-18.

What are some alternatives?

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

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

Infinite-Storage-Glitch - ISG lets you use YouTube as cloud storage for ANY files, not just video

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

BassoonTracker - Webbased old-school Amiga music tracker in plain old javascript - Plays and edits Amiga Mod files and FastTracker XM files

base65536 - Unicode's answer to Base64

youbit - Host any type of file on YouTube

Podje.li - Podjeli is file sharing on your terms, encode your file into URLs. SPA written in JavaScript with JQuery.

pngencoder - Encode arbitrary data on png images.

File2PNG - Store any file as PNG image

CDNDrive - :cloud: CDNDrive = BiliDrive + SuperBed,支持任意文件的全速上传与下载