A List of Ephemeral File Sharing Services

ephemeral-file-sharing-services.md

A List of Ephemeral File Sharing Services

Contributions welcome.

~ Prajjwal Singh

Service	CLI?	Max Size	Direct Access	Files Expire?	Can Limit Download Count?	Password Protection	HTTPS
c-v.sh	curl -F	4 GB	Yes	Yes, by Mister Alg.	No	No	Enforced
FileIO	Yes	5 GB	Yes	Optionally	Fixed @ 1	No	Yes
0x0.st	Yes	512MiB	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes
Instant	No	UL	No	When seeders die	No	No	Enforced
ki.tc	Yes	100mb	Yes	Upon Access	Singular	No	No
uguu.se	Yes	100mb	Yes	1 Day	No	No	Yes
oshi.at	Yes	1 GB	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Flyle	Yes - FFSend	2.5 GB	no	Yes	Yes	Yes	Enforced

Client Side Encryption

It's a good idea to encrypt your files locally before sending them out, even if you trust the service. Here's a short how-to.

Encrypt with 256 bit AES:

openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -salt -in <infile> -out <outfile>

Decrypt:

openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -d -in <infile> -out <outfile>

Skip the -in and -out options to make openssl use STDIN or STDOUT.

See man enc for information on available ciphers. aes-256-cbc and bf are what I generally use.

Links

• u/86rd9t7ofy8pguh's analyzed the state of https on some of these sites here.

Scripts

• My FileIO Script
• Official transfer.sh Script
• My transfer.sh Script

File.IO seems to be down now

File.io is permanently dead. Just got confirmation from Mike Carson, the person who built it. He said:

Hi, I'm sorry but we had to shut down file.io

@kuronae12, @justinmayer
Don't know what you're talking about. File IO still works for me.

Hey,

Mind adding http://ki.tc/otf to the list;

here is the entry

Service	CLI?	Max Size	Direct Access	Files Expire?	Can Limit Download Count?	Password Protection	HTTPS
ki.tc	Yes	100mb	Yes	Upon Access	Singular	No	No

As for CLI, here is the basic usage:

curl -F 'file=@Screenshot_20160729_014.png' http://ki.tc/file/u/
{
  "file": {
    "_id": "downsizing.revolved.fervently", 
    "download_page": "http://ki.tc/file/downsizing.revolved.fervently", 
    "file": [
      "File Name: Screenshot_20160729_014.png", 
      "Content Type: image/png", 
      "length: 526K"
    ], 
    "link": "http://ki.tc/f/downsizing.revolved.fervently", 
    "sha256": "98ad20a92f29c8b0e815f266c661975cfc11375e7d92a3b55bf13f78057736cc", 
    "time": "Tue, 12 Dec 2017 01:48:13 GMT"
  }
}

Random readable urls/path; rationale: easier to read > easier to memorize > easier to verbally share. Generate random longitude and latitude, pass it to what3words api > get the 3 words. When the api fails, it falls back to 5 characters:

curl -F 'file=@Screenshot_20160729_014.png' http://ki.tc/file/u/
{
  "file": {
    "_id": "4fde2", 
    "download_page": "http://ki.tc/file/4fde2", 
    "file": [
      "File Name: Screenshot_20160729_014.png", 
      "Content Type: image/png"
    ], 
    "length": "526K", 
    "link": "http://ki.tc/f/4fde2", 
    "sha256": "98ad20a92f29c8b0e815f266c661975cfc11375e7d92a3b55bf13f78057736cc", 
    "time": "Tue, 12 Dec 2017 01:53:01 GMT"
  }
}

...this comment is basically the documentation.

@Logic-gate Added. I missed your comment for some reason. Apparently GH doesn't notify you if you're not @mentioned.

@Prajjwal

Changelog ki.tc/otf

Changed

• supports ssl with auto redirect [let's encrypt]
• 27 days TTL; unaccessed files will be terminated
• Upload size increased to 400mb

[3.4.0] - 2018-10-21

Added

• Streaming videos; [videojs] - file will be deleted upon download request.

As far as I know transfersh https is not broken anymore, actually.
Also they will shut it down. But you can selfhost your own then.

https://oshi.at is quite flexible and provides upload management interface, curl PUT and POST methods supported

Highly recommend 0x0.st. HTTP POST and curl support. Max size of 512MB, and files expire between 30 days and one year based on their size. The website source code is also available at https://github.com/mia-0/0x0

@micejoe Added.
@WardBenjamin That's a great recommendation. Added.

Can you add https://flyle.app . It supports files up to 2.5gb, supports passwords, is end to end encrypted and 100% free.

Service	CLI?	Max Size	Direct Access	Files Expire?	Can Limit Download Count?	Password Protection	HTTPS
Flyle	Yes - FFSend	2.5 GB	no	Yes	Yes	Yes	Enforced

@greatjack1 there we go.

Service	CLI?	Max Size	Direct Access	Files Expire?	Can Limit Download Count?	Password Protection	HTTPS
ccu.to	curl -T	5 GB	Yes	Yes, 72h	No	No	Yes

hosted in Switzerland, 10 GBit DL/UL no limit (except attack protections) %99.99 uptime, there's also bash and windows shortcuts available on site
it's in Turkish, but what do you even need to read, just click a button and upload!