anssxustawai

A Not Shitty ShareX Upload Server That Actually Works As Intended (Pronounced "an-zoo-sta-why")

This project is still very young, so don't expect everything to be perfect yet.

Features

• Token authorization via HTTP Authorization header
• Upload images, videos, files
• Thumbnail support
• Delete support
• Multiple database types (JSON, Mongo, MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc. Currently uses JSON)
• Multiple access types (original, mixed-case alphanumeric, ZWS, etc. Currently uses ZWS)

Installation

The installation may look daunting but it's really pretty straightforward. Just follow it word-for-word & you'll be fine. If you are not fine, then by all means open an Issue & I'll try my best to help.

1. First of all you must have Node.js 14 or later installed. It might work with Node.js 12 but just use 14.
2. Clone this repo using git clone https://github.com/tycrek/anssxustawai.git && cd anssxustawai/
3. Install the required dependencies using npm i
4. Configure .env.example before running if you wish to. This will let you configure your port number & domain name.
5. Run npm start to start. This will:
   • Automatically copy .env.example to .env
   • Creates data.json & auth.json
   • Generates your first authorization token & saves it to auth.json
6. You must also configure an SSL-enabled reverse proxy:
   • I personally use Caddy, see my tutorial on setting that up
   • You may also Apache or Nginx as reverse proxies

Configure ShareX

1. Add a new Custom Uploader in ShareX by going to Destinations > Custom uploader settings...
2. Under Uploaders, click New & name it whatever you like.
3. Set Destination type to Image, Text, & File
4. Request tab:
   • Method: POST
   • URL: https://your.domain.name.here/
   • Body: Form data (multipart/form-data)
   • File from name: file
   • Headers:
     • Name: Authorization
     • Value: (the value provided by npm start on first run)
5. Response tab:
   • URL: $json:.resource$
   • Deletion URL: $json:.delete$
6. The file sample_config.sxcu can also be modified & imported to suit your needs

Known issues

• Videos won't embed on Discord: I know. This is because Discord developers make some really stupid decisions & only show embeds if the URL ends with .mp4. So the workaround: manually type ".mp4" after pasting your URL. This will be fixed automatically in the future with some ZWS redirect tricks.
• It won't work over HTTP: Yes because HTTP is outdated crap, why are you still using it??