# filebrowser/filebrowser

File Browser provides a file managing interface within a specified directory and it can be used to upload, delete, preview and edit your files.

Repository: https://github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/filebrowser
Language: Go
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: file-browser, file-manager, file-sharing, go, material-design, self-hosted, vue
Last push: 2026-07-31T10:06:58+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 92/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 95, release rhythm 83, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4009, "days_push": 33, "days_rel": 37, "gap_med": 2.0, "n_releases_24m": 97}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 35950, forks 4027 (observed 2026-08-28T04:12:00.933310+00:00)

## What it is
File Browser is a self-hosted web application that provides a file managing interface over a specified directory, allowing upload, delete, preview, and editing of files through a browser. It was archived on 2026-09-01 and receives no further releases or security fixes.

## Use cases
- manage files on my server through a web browser
- self-hosted alternative to google drive for my own files
- upload and edit files on a nas via web interface
- browse and share files from a directory over http
- simple web-based file manager for a vps

## When to choose
- you need a simple web UI over a directory and can run it fully isolated behind a reverse proxy with its own auth
- you are forking the project or studying its Go/Vue codebase

## When to avoid
- you need maintained software with security fixes - it is archived and unmaintained
- you plan to expose it directly to the internet
- you need the command runner/hooks feature, which has known unaddressed command-execution vulnerabilities
- you need revocable sessions - JWTs cannot be revoked and leaked tokens stay valid until expiry

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: abandoned
- function: file-system, http-server, auth, web-framework
- domain: self-hosted, files, web-development, developer-tools
- platform: windows, self-hosted, cross-platform
- tags: file-manager, file-browser, web-ui, cloud-storage, archived, vue, go, linux, macos, docker, web-server

## Member repositories
- filebrowser/filebrowser (main) score 92

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:12:00.933310+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T16:26:44.497314+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser (fetched 2026-08-28T04:12:00.933310+00:00, sha 6966247bf87f)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.