Syncthing Development

Controlling Syncthing from External Applications

People all over the world have developed a number of useful applications that build around the Syncthing core, such as tray notifications and Android support. These are made possible using two APIs:

• A long polling interface for exposing events from the core utility to an external party. This Event API is useful for being notified of when changes to files, network connections or sync status occur.

• A REST API for controlling the operation of Syncthing and directly querying for current status.

If this covers what you need to do, there is no need to delve deeper. However, if you would like to add functionality to Syncthing itself, or correct a bug or two in there, please read on.

Contributing to Syncthing

Please see the contribution guidelines in the main repository.