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Use jQuery to send a HEAD request with AJAX and get the size of a file without downloading it. This snippet places the size of the file in braces next to its name. The script issues a HEAD request, which only returns the headers and not the actual content of the file, which means that these requests are fast and lightweight.
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| // Loop all .fetchSize links | |
| $('a.fetchSize').each(function() { | |
| // Issue an AJAX HEAD request for each one | |
| var link = this; | |
| $.ajax({ | |
| type: 'HEAD', | |
| url: link.href, | |
| complete: function(xhr) { | |
| var size = humanize(xhr.getResponseHeader('Content-Length')); | |
| // Append the filesize to each | |
| $(link).append(' (' + size + ')'); | |
| } | |
| }); | |
| }); | |
| function humanize(size) { | |
| var units = ['bytes', 'KB', 'MB', 'GB', 'TB', 'PB']; | |
| var ord = Math.floor(Math.log(size) / Math.log(1024)); | |
| ord = Math.min(Math.max(0, ord), units.length - 1); | |
| var s = Math.round((size / Math.pow(1024, ord)) * 100) / 100; | |
| return s + ' ' + units[ord]; | |
| } |
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| <!doctype html> | |
| <html lang="en"> | |
| <head> | |
| <meta charset="UTF-8"> | |
| <title>Display files sizes next to download links</title> | |
| </head> | |
| <body> | |
| <a href="001.html" class="fetchSize">First Trickshot</a> | |
| <a href="034.html" class="fetchSize">This Trickshot</a> | |
| <a href="ball.png" class="fetchSize">Ball.png</a> | |
| <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.10.2/jquery.min.js"></script> | |
| <script type="text/javascript" src="filessizes.js"></script> | |
| </body> | |
| </html> |
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Does this work with CORS?