File System Access API support

download-directory / download-directory.github.io

Web App: Download just a sub directory from a GitHub repo.

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File System Access API support #94

Closed topjohncian closed 1 year ago

topjohncian commented 1 year ago

We can download directories without zipping using the File System Access API.

I'd like to implement this feature. 😆

fregante commented 1 year ago

Thank you for the offer! I have a couple of questions:

can that API actually create multiple files at once?
why abandon the zip? What’s the advantage? On macOS zip files are automatically extracted on download and the folder appears in their place. Also there’s no “save as” dialog so it’s effectively zero-clicks to download a folder

topjohncian commented 1 year ago

Thank you for your reply!

Sorry I have doubts about your first question. 😢 Could you please describe it more? You can open it, right-click, click Download to see the effect.
Using the API there's also a step of creating the directory and submitting in the "save as" dialog. It seems to me that it can be set as an optional feature.

fregante commented 1 year ago

As I feared, it's only possible by granting access to whole folder, which is super bad UX:

macOS doesn't even allow this for the Downloads folder:

2. it can be set as an optional feature

It doesn't offer enough benefits to justify this being an option. I suppose it would improve support for super large files but those are rarely found in a git repo to begin with