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Plik
Plik is a scalable & friendly temporary file upload system — like WeTransfer, self-hosted.
Features
- 🖥️ Modern Vue 3 web interface
- 🧑💻 Powerful Command line client
- ☁️ Multiple storage backends (local, S3, OpenStack Swift, Google Cloud Storage)
- 🗄️ Multiple metadata backends (SQLite, PostgreSQL, MySQL)
- 🔑 Multiple authentication providers (Local, Google, OVH, OIDC)
- ⏱️ Configurable TTL with auto-cleanup
- 💣 OneShot downloads (file deleted after first download)
- ⚡ Stream mode (uploader → downloader, nothing stored)
- 🔐 Password-protected uploads (BasicAuth)
- 🔒 End-to-end encryption with Age (CLI ↔ Web interoperable)
- 📦 Archive directly from CLI/Web
- 📊 Prometheus metrics
- 🤖 MCP server for AI assistant integration
Third-party clients
- ShareX Uploader : Directly integrated into ShareX
- plikSharp : A .NET API client for Plik
- Filelink for Plik : Thunderbird Addon to upload attachments to Plik
Quick Start
# Docker docker run -p 8080:8080 rootgg/plik # From release wget https://github.com/root-gg/plik/releases/download/1.3.8/plik-server-1.3.8-linux-amd64.tar.gz tar xzvf plik-server-1.3.8-linux-amd64.tar.gz cd plik-server-1.3.8-linux-amd64/server && ./plikd # From source git clone https://github.com/root-gg/plik.git cd plik && make cd server && ./plikd # Kubernetes (Helm) helm repo add plik https://root-gg.github.io/plik helm install plik plik/plik
Open web interface at http://127.0.0.1:8080
Command Line Client
$ plik myfile.txt Upload successfully created at Sat, 21 Feb 2026 09:02:54 CET : http://127.0.0.1:8080/#/?id=vDPmPEUqc5oCt31T myfile.txt : 2.56 KiB / 2.56 KiB [=========================================] 100.00% 719.15 KiB/s 0s Commands : curl -s "http://127.0.0.1:8080/file/vDPmPEUqc5oCt31T/UZzSdZ7zPgfRiTem/myfile.txt" > 'myfile.txt' # or with just curl $ curl --form 'file=@/path/to/myfile.txt' http://127.0.0.1:8080 https://plik.root.gg/file/eeBKaTQhg5xv0zTL/WWVhZc0PFtvoZgCu/myfile.txt
See: CLI Client Documentation for installation
How to Contribute
Contributions are welcome! See the contributing guide for development setup and build instructions.