napster

This project implements a Napster-inspired P2P file-sharing system with a centralized indexing server for efficient search and discovery. It balances scalability and bandwidth by enabling direct peer-to-peer file transfers while maintaining secure, reliable, and fault-tolerant communication

Interface

0. cd interface
1. wails clean
2. mkdir build
3. Copy appicon.png to build folder
4. wails build
5. wails dev

Instructions

• First run server:

go run server/server.go

• Then run the number of clients you wish to run:

go run client/client.go -port=<port_number>

• On running the client you will be asked to choose an option as shown below:

Choose an option: 
1. Register Files
2. Search File
3. Exit

• To download Fuzzy Search:

  go get github.com/lithammer/fuzzysearch/fuzzy

• On choosing 1 or 2 you will be asked for a file path to register or search, search returns the peers storing the file redundancy is also implemented.

• Heartbeats are also implmented to make sure if the peer goes offline

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