Suggest an integration

[oscartbeaumont]

This discussion is a place for the community to recommend cloud integrations for Spacedrive. We would rather you post them as comments here instead of in separate issues to keep the issue tracker clean.

Note: Everything below is subject to change, so if you disagree with any decisions feel free to start a civil discussion on Discord.

Our current goal for version one is:

• Google Drive
• iCloud Drive (Will require a Mac, iPhone or iPad to actually work, thanks to Apple 😞).

We are interested in looking into:

• ownCloud/Nextcloud
• Object storage (S3, Minio, etc)

Not interesting in supporting at the current stage:

• Syncthing - Syncthing works on its own protocol which would be hard to integrate.

Please include a link to the cloud service when commenting.

[zbraniecki]

Would you also consider raw AWS S3?

[oscartbeaumont]

We will look into it! I wouldn't be surprised if we add it because we may end up using object storage for the Spacedrive hosted service, although obviously, nothing is set in stone at this stage.

[oscartbeaumont]

SMB

[lapidary-master]

Having integration with MEGA would be super awesome since they are super cheap for large storage.

[xPolar]

I believe Mega is planned as a lot of our team members use it. Would be super beneficial to all parties.

[aidenbush]

[utkubakir]

Apple Photos, Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive & Mega are planned.

[ethndotsh]

AirPort/Time Machine

[jhodges10]

Frame.io and Adobe Creative Cloud storage could be good to integrate with for creatives, and is potentially something Adobe would be willing to write or collaborate on.

[HeavySnowJakarta]

Some well-known services besides yours provided: (most of them can be easily googled)

• Dropbox
• Onedrive
• Box
• SharePoint
• IBM Drive
• Yandex Drive
• Baidu Wangpan (Baidu Cloud before) (not easy, may leave for volunteers) [pan.baidu.com] no English service
• NutStore (non-webdav would be better)
• Mega
• Pik Pak

Universal remote storation:

• FTP/SFTP
• Windows SMB
• NFS
• WebDAV

Personal storation (usually called nas):

• Synology
• QNAP

And some interesting ideas:

• IPFS
• “WebDrive” based on social networks (eg. Telegram)

[awidjaja]

Telegram will be nice (unlimited storage without re-encoding of file/media).

[ColinLeftwich]

I don't know how feasible it is but a proton drive integration would be really nice

[brxken128]

AFAIK this wouldn't be possible, as Proton don't provide a public API that we could make use of.

It's a shame for sure. I personally use Proton services (and would greatly benefit from a ProtonDrive integration), but they don't like the idea of a public API (in the name of security). It's understandable - an API would be quite complex to develop due to everything they handle being entirely encrypted.

[PsiACE]

Wow, I just discovered spacedrive today and it looks just fantastic. I'm excited to see how it can integrate more services.

I haven't gone through the implementation details and I'm not quite sure how to implement an integration. Just thought maybe https://github.com/apache/incubator-opendal might be useful for achieving this goal.

[ghost]

great idea @oscartbeaumont

[Milo123459]

Falls under S3, but might need more configuration to make it work: https://storj.io

[sneycampos]

S3 compatible should be nice, since we can use BackBlaze, Cloudflare R2, etc that is cheap options (Cloudflare R2 charges for egress bandwidth)

[Zesseth]

Having BackBlaze B2 through that would be most awesome. 👍

[kassah]

I notice all of the above are file storage. I'm still interested in photo storage.

• Google Photos
• ICloud Photos (and disk based Photo libraries)
• Amazon Photos

I'd love to be able to track photo printing services too, but this might not have enough ROI for the effort to implement:

• Walgreens Photo
• Walmart Photo
• Shutterfly

Social services also have their photo type storage:

• Facebook Albums - https://www.facebook.com/<username>/photos_albums

[jihuayu]

I think the OpenDAL project might be helpful for this project.

OpenDAL is a data access layer that allows users to easily and efficiently retrieve data from various storage services in a unified way.

[ioqbit]

https://www.resilio.com/individuals/

You can share files on the Internet through a string of string links, without adding friends or user authentication, and conveniently share files between strangers.

[jcdietrich]

Support for indexing digital stores that contain downloadable files you own.

• Steam Library
• DriveThruRPG Library
• Itch.io Library
• bundleofholding.com Wizard's Cabinet
  • although most are in DriveThruRPG, some are not
• pnparcade.com
• kobo.com
• amazon.com/amazon.ca/etc

In these cases, I personally have large libraries of files/games that I have access to, but they are all siloed. Indexing across these would be great when trying to find something.

[iLynxcat]

This is an interesting idea! We should look into these, though I can't guarantee anything given implementation details/etc. This could be a good use of our upcoming extensions system

[roaldarbol]

I'd be really keen to see more encrypted services such as:

• Proton Drive
• Filen
• Ente Photos

I'm sure it's probably not the easiest to integrate... at least Filen is about to have WebDAV support (should land in 2024).

[roaldarbol]

What are the technical constraints you are currently working within? Does the service need to have WebDAV or some other interface?

[roaldarbol]

Proton has now open sourced their apps (https://github.com/ProtonDriveApps) and I know they're hoping to open up, especially to enable Linux users to interface - so will hopefully be better within the next couple of years. :-)

[zag2me]

Cloudflare R2 for me. Sick of using WinSCP 😂

[oliveiraigorm]

Any update on SFTP?