You can use <input type="file"> with multiple attribute set, accept attribute set to text/plain; change event ;FileReader, for loop.
var pre = document.querySelector("pre");
document.querySelector("input[type=file]")
.addEventListener("change", function(event) {
var files = event.target.files;
for (var i = 0; i < files.length; i++) {
(function(file) {
var reader = new FileReader();
reader.addEventListener("load", function(e) {
pre.textContent += "\n" + e.target.result;
});
reader.readAsText(file)
}(files[i]))
}
})<input type="file" accept="text/plain" multiple />
<pre>
</pre>You can also use webkitdirectory and allowdirs attributes for directory upload at chrome, chromium; at nightly 45+ or firefox 42+ where dom.input.dirpicker preference set to true, see Firefox 42 for developers , Select & Drop Files and/or Folders to be parsed. Note, you can also drop folders from file manager at <input type="file"> element
var pre = document.querySelector("pre");
document.querySelector("input[type=file]")
.addEventListener("change", function(event) {
console.log(event.target.files)
var uploadFile = function(file, path) {
// handle file uploading
console.log(file, path);
var reader = new FileReader();
reader.addEventListener("load", function(e) {
pre.textContent += "\n" + e.target.result;
});
reader.readAsText(file)
};
var iterateFilesAndDirs = function(filesAndDirs, path) {
for (var i = 0; i < filesAndDirs.length; i++) {
if (typeof filesAndDirs[i].getFilesAndDirectories === 'function') {
var path = filesAndDirs[i].path;
// this recursion enables deep traversal of directories
filesAndDirs[i].getFilesAndDirectories()
.then(function(subFilesAndDirs) {
// iterate through files and directories in sub-directory
iterateFilesAndDirs(subFilesAndDirs, path);
});
} else {
uploadFile(filesAndDirs[i], path);
}
}
};
if ("getFilesAndDirectories" in event.target) {
event.target.getFilesAndDirectories()
.then(function(filesAndDirs) {
iterateFilesAndDirs(filesAndDirs, "https://stackoverflow.com/");
})
} else {
// do webkit stuff
var files = event.target.files;
for (var i = 0; i < files.length; i++) {
(function(file) {
uploadFile(file)
}(files[i]))
}
}
})<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<script></script>
</head>
<body>
<input type="file" webkitdirectory allowdirs directory />
<pre>
</pre>
</body>
</html>plnkr http://plnkr.co/edit/Y1XYd9rLOdKRHw6tb1Sh?p=preview
For ajax requests at chromium, chrome file: protocol local filesystem you can launch with --allow-file-access-from-files flag set, see Jquery load() only working in firefox?.
At firefox you can set security.fileuri.strict_origin_policy to false, see Security.fileuri.strict origin policy.
For a possible $.ajax() approach at chrome, chromium you can try
var path = "/path/to/drectory"; // `D:\`, `file:///`
var files = [];
$.ajax({url:path, dataType:"text html"})
.then((data) => {
// match file names from `html` returned by chrome, chromium
// for directory listing of `D:\Finaltests\test1\new\places`;
// you can alternatively load the "Index of" document and retrieve
// `.textContent` from `<a>` elements within `td` at `table` of
// rendered `html`; note, `RegExp` to match file names
// could probably be improved, does not match space characters in file names
var urls = $.unique(data.match(/\b(\w+|\d+)\.txt\b/g));
return $.when.apply($, $.map(urls, (file) => {
files.push(file);
// `\`, or `/`, depending on filesystem type
return $.ajax({url:path + "https://stackoverflow.com/" + file
, dataType:"text html"})
.then((data) => {
// return array of objects having property set to `file` name,
// value set to text within `file`
return {[file]:data}
})
}))
})
.then((...res) => {
console.log(res, files)
})