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title: "GUI"
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description: "Web based Graphical User Interface"
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date: "2019-08-25"
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---
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# GUI (Experimental)
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Rclone can serve a web based GUI (graphical user interface). This is
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somewhat experimental at the moment so things may be subject to
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change.
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Run this command in a terminal and rclone will download and then
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display the GUI in a web browser.
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```
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rclone rcd --rc-web-gui
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```
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This will produce logs like this and rclone needs to continue to run to serve the GUI:
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```
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2019/08/25 11:40:14 NOTICE: A new release for gui is present at https://github.com/rclone/rclone-webui-react/releases/download/v0.0.6/currentbuild.zip
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2019/08/25 11:40:14 NOTICE: Downloading webgui binary. Please wait. [Size: 3813937, Path : /home/USER/.cache/rclone/webgui/v0.0.6.zip]
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2019/08/25 11:40:16 NOTICE: Unzipping
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2019/08/25 11:40:16 NOTICE: Serving remote control on http://127.0.0.1:5572/
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```
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This assumes you are running rclone locally on your machine. It is
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possible to separate the rclone and the GUI - see below for details.
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If you wish to update to the latest API version then you can add
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`--rc-web-gui-update` to the command line.
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## Using the GUI
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Once the GUI opens, you will be looking at the dashboard which has an overall overview.
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On the left hand side you will see a series of view buttons you can click on:
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- Dashboard - main overview
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- Configs - examine and create new configurations
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- Explorer - view, download and upload files to the cloud storage systems
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- Backend - view or alter the backend config
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- Log out
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(More docs and walkthrough video to come!)
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## How it works
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When you run the `rclone rcd --rc-web-gui` this is what happens
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- Rclone starts but only runs the remote control API ("rc").
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- The API is bound to localhost with an auto generated username and password.
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- If the API bundle is missing then rclone will download it.
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- rclone will start serving the files from the API bundle over the same port as the API
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- rclone will open the browser with a `login_token` so it can log straight in.
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## Advanced use
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The `rclone rcd` may use any of the [flags documented on the rc page](https://rclone.org/rc/#supported-parameters).
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The flag `--rc-web-gui` is shorthand for
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- Download the web GUI if necessary
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- Check we are using some authentication
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- `--rc-user gui`
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- `--rc-pass <random password>`
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- `--rc-serve`
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These flags can be overidden as desired.
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See also the [rclone rcd documentation](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_rcd/).
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### Example: Running a public GUI
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For example the GUI could be served on a public port over SSL using an htpasswd file using the following flags:
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- `--rc-web-gui`
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- `--rc-addr :443`
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- `--rc-htpasswd /path/to/htpasswd`
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- `--rc-cert /path/to/ssl.crt`
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- `--rc-key /path/to/ssl.key`
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### Example: Running a GUI behind a proxy
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If you want to run the GUI behind a proxy at `/rclone` you could use these flags:
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- `--rc-web-gui`
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- `--rc-baseurl rclone`
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- `--rc-htpasswd /path/to/htpasswd`
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Or instead of htpassword if you just want a single user and password:
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- `--rc-user me`
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- `--rc-pass mypassword`
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## Project
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The GUI is being developed in the: [rclone/rclone-webui-react respository](https://github.com/rclone/rclone-webui-react).
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Bug reports and contributions very welcome welcome :-)
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If you have questions then please ask them on the [rclone forum](https://forum.rclone.org/).
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