Wild-Storage

Wild-Storage lets you use YouTube as a Infinite Cloud Storage. It embeds any files(Images, Videos, Documents, etc) into a video. The video can be uploaded to YouTube and the file can be retrieved from the video. A exapansion & compression technique is used to defeat YouTube's compression algorithm. The file can be retrieved from the video without any loss of data.

Demo Video (YouTube Link)

Virtual Environment Set Up

Create Virtual Environment

python3 -m venv env

Activate Virtual Environment

source env/bin/activate

Install Required Packages

pip install -r requirements.txt

Compile C++ Library & Generate Python Bindings

g++ -fPIC -shared DataProccessing/cLibs/helper.cpp -o DataProccessing/cLibs/c_lib.so

DataProcessing Working

Embed File Into Video

Retrieve File From Video

Expansion And Compression

Python Wrapped C++ Library

Wild-Storage was a complete Python Implementation. Beign a very slow interpreted language it was taking too much time to process files. Later I moved some heavy task codebase to C++ and wrapped those in Python using ctypes. This helped to process the files ~3x faster.

Credits

This project is inspired by Infinite-Storage-Glitch which is a Rust implementation. I liked the concept and tried to implement in my favourite language Python. The working of both may not be same.