How to get filenames in a given directory? — 2026 update

reno_queen

(I found some similar questions but none of them solved my problem so this is not a duplicated question I think) I want to retrieve filenames in one of my folder using jQuery. I tried the following method but I still can't get each filename. $.get(".", function(data) { $("#divID").append(data); }); But I noticed that the type of 'data' is string and it contains filenames at the end of it like this:...

Originally asked by Vito G. on Stack Exchange (stackoverflow) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

You cannot read files in a client's machine. You may access them for development purpose by modifying a flag. Look at my answer here regarding this. After this proceed with the below code. Both works. Using PURE JAVASCRIPT : var filenames=[], foldernames=[]; var url = "file:///Users/Default/Downloads"; var req = new XMLHttpRequest(); req.open("GET",url,true); req.onreadystatechange=function(){ if(req.readyState === 4) { document.write(req.responseText); getNames(); } }; req.send(); function getNames() { var files = document.querySelectorAll("a.icon.file"); var folders = document.querySelectorAll("a.icon.dir"); files.forEach(function(item){filenames.push(item.textContent)})...

Full answer by Vignesh Raja: https://stackoverflow.stackexchange.com/a/48637310 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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