P2P chat and file sharing in the browser via WebRTC

3 points

13 years ago

For my over the air hack this year I put together a tool to allow communication and file sharing in a bittorent like way via WebRTC. It is on my github here: https://github.com/AdaRoseEdwards/Peerage

Be warned it is super flaky and very browser dependent because WebRTC is still in early days.

* Works best in newer releases of Chrome * Does not work at all in Chromium * Only chat seems to work in Firefox you can not make video calls or send files.

It uses WebRTC to handle hand shaking.

After installation go to [ip]:3000 to view. To connect to another peer send them your generated id.

It's still early days yet but WebRTC could be game changing with regards to the internet. When any browser can handle video calling, file sharing and the like.

Next I plan to add the ability to stream video via WebRTC. Because it will be cool to have a decentralised youtube.