Public API

These paths are relative to /api/v1 and do not require authentication.

Frontend bootstrap config, preview-app registry, thumbnail support, and media-data support are used by anonymous pages at startup. The remote-enrollment endpoints are used by the enrollment handshake between primary and follower nodes. These endpoints are registered only on primary nodes.

Public configuration endpoints include Vary: Authorization, Cookie. Anonymous responses usually use Cache-Control: public, max-age=60; GET /public/custom-config uses Cache-Control: private, max-age=60 when the request carries a valid access token and authenticated-visible entries are included. Thumbnail-support and media-data-support responses are also cached in-process for 60 seconds and invalidated when media-processing config or storage policies change.

Method	Path	Description
GET	/public/frontend-config	Read public frontend bootstrap config
GET	/public/preview-apps	Read the anonymous-visible preview-app registry
GET	/public/custom-config	Read custom config entries visible to the current identity
GET	/public/thumbnail-support	Read public thumbnail extension support
GET	/public/media-data-support	Read public media metadata support
POST	/public/remote-enrollment/redeem	Follower redeems an enrollment token for remote-node binding information
POST	/public/remote-enrollment/ack	Follower confirms enrollment completion

GET /public/frontend-config

This endpoint is the current anonymous bootstrap entry for the frontend application. It returns the standard JSON envelope:

{
  "code": "success",
  "msg": "",
  "data": {
    "version": 2,
    "branding": {
      "title": "AsterDrive",
      "description": "Self-hosted cloud storage",
      "favicon_url": "/favicon.svg",
      "wordmark_dark_url": "/static/asterdrive/asterdrive-dark.svg",
      "wordmark_light_url": "/static/asterdrive/asterdrive-light.svg",
      "site_urls": ["https://drive.example.com"],
      "allow_user_registration": true,
      "passkey_login_enabled": true
    },
    "downloads": {
      "archive_download_user_enabled": true,
      "archive_download_share_enabled": true
    },
    "media": {
      "image_preview_preference": "preview_first"
    }
  }
}

Key points:

• version is currently 2
• branding is the only current public structure for brand and login-entry configuration; the old /public/branding route has been removed
• downloads.archive_download_user_enabled controls whether signed-in users can see and use ZIP package downloads in personal and team workspaces
• downloads.archive_download_share_enabled controls whether public-share visitors can use ZIP package downloads for shared content
• both fields come from backend runtime configuration. The frontend hides unavailable choices for usability, while archive-download endpoints enforce the switches again; UI visibility is not an authorization boundary
• media.image_preview_preference comes from runtime config frontend_image_preview_preference
• supported image_preview_preference values are original_first and preview_first
• the frontend caches this bootstrap config and refreshes it after related runtime config changes

GET /public/preview-apps

Returns the public preview-app registry:

{
  "code": "success",
  "msg": "",
  "data": {
    "version": 2,
    "apps": [
      {
        "key": "builtin.formatted",
        "provider": "builtin",
        "icon": "/static/preview-apps/json.svg",
        "enabled": true,
        "labels": {
          "en": "Formatted view",
          "zh": "格式化视图"
        },
        "extensions": ["json", "xml"]
      }
    ]
  }
}

Key points:

• apps contains the anonymous-visible previewer definitions
• supported providers currently include builtin, url_template, and wopi
• this is the v2 shape; matching information lives on each app’s extensions and config
• disabled apps are filtered out
• frontend preview, public-share preview, and WOPI launch flows depend on this registry instead of hardcoding previewers in the frontend
• admins can currently maintain this registry through /api/v1/admin/config/frontend_preview_apps_json

GET /public/custom-config

This endpoint returns the custom configuration visible to the current request identity, wrapped in the standard JSON envelope:

{
  "code": "success",
  "msg": "",
  "data": {
    "entries": {
      "my-frontend.theme.primary_color": "#6366f1",
      "my-frontend.feature.enable_beta_tab": "true"
    }
  }
}

Notes:

• only source = "custom" entries are returned
• only the entries key/value map is exposed; internal admin fields such as id, source, and updated_by are not returned
• anonymous responses use Cache-Control: public, max-age=60
• when a valid access token is supplied and authenticated-visible entries are returned, the response uses Cache-Control: private, max-age=60 with Vary: Authorization, Cookie
• visibility has three levels:
  • private: admin-only, never returned by this endpoint
  • public: readable without login
  • authenticated: returned only when the request carries a valid access token
• requests without a token only receive public entries
• requests that explicitly carry an invalid token return 401 instead of silently falling back to anonymous behavior
• this endpoint is intended for frontend-consumed configuration such as theme values, feature switches, and non-sensitive copy

GET /public/thumbnail-support

Returns the server’s public thumbnail-generation support:

{
  "code": "success",
  "msg": "",
  "data": {
    "version": 1,
    "image_preview": {
      "enabled": true,
      "extensions": ["bmp", "gif", "jpeg", "jpg", "png", "webp"]
    },
    "image_thumbnail": {
      "enabled": true,
      "extensions": ["bmp", "gif", "jpeg", "jpg", "png", "webp"]
    },
    "audio_thumbnail": {
      "enabled": false
    },
    "video_thumbnail": {
      "enabled": false
    },
    "extensions": ["bmp", "gif", "jpe", "jpeg", "jpg", "png", "tif", "tiff", "webp"]
  }
}

Notes:

• extensions are normalized to lowercase without leading dots
• image_preview, image_thumbnail, audio_thumbnail, and video_thumbnail are the current per-use capability fields
• top-level extensions is kept as a compatibility union for older clients
• the built-in image processor exposes common image formats when enabled
• the built-in lofty processor can expose audio suffixes for embedded cover thumbnails
• vips_cli / ffmpeg_cli expose configured extensions only when the commands are available and the processors are enabled
• the capability mainly comes from media_processing_registry_json
• storage-native thumbnails and image previews can also contribute extensions when a storage policy opts in and the driver exposes that capability; built-in tencent_cos policies can expose it through COS CI, while built-in Local, S3-compatible, Azure Blob, OneDrive, and Remote policies do not

GET /public/media-data-support

Returns media metadata parsing support:

{
  "code": "success",
  "msg": "",
  "data": {
    "version": 1,
    "enabled": true,
    "max_source_bytes": 52428800,
    "kinds": {
      "image": {
        "enabled": true,
        "match": "extensions",
        "extensions": ["bmp", "gif", "jpeg", "jpg", "png", "tif", "tiff", "webp"]
      },
      "audio": {
        "enabled": true,
        "match": "extensions",
        "extensions": ["flac", "m4a", "mp3", "ogg", "wav"]
      },
      "video": {
        "enabled": false,
        "match": "extensions",
        "extensions": []
      }
    }
  }
}

The top-level enabled maps to media_metadata_enabled. The per-kind entries are derived from the active media-processing registry and bounded by media_metadata_max_source_bytes. Storage-native media metadata extensions can also be merged into audio/video support when a policy opts in and the driver exposes that capability; built-in tencent_cos policies can expose it through COS CI.

POST /public/remote-enrollment/redeem

This endpoint is for the follower CLI enrollment flow, not anonymous browser clients.

Request:

{
  "token": "enr_xxxxx"
}

Response:

{
  "code": "success",
  "msg": "",
  "data": {
    "remote_node_id": 7,
    "remote_node_name": "edge-sh-01",
    "master_url": "https://drive.example.com",
    "access_key": "rk_xxx",
    "secret_key": "rs_xxx",
    "is_enabled": true,
    "ack_token": "enr_ack_xxx"
  }
}

master_url requires public_site_url; with multiple origins, the first one is used for enrollment. The access key and secret key are later used by the internal storage protocol.

POST /public/remote-enrollment/ack

Request:

{
  "ack_token": "enr_ack_xxx"
}

Success response:

{
  "code": "success",
  "msg": ""
}

This means the follower has received the binding information and confirms that the enrollment session can end.