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https://github.com/root-gg/plik

Plik is a temporary file upload system (Wetransfer like) in Go.
https://github.com/root-gg/plik

docker file-sharing file-upload golang self-hosted

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Plik is a temporary file upload system (Wetransfer like) in Go.

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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](https://root-gg.github.io/plik/features/cli-client.html)

- ☁️ 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](https://age-encryption.org/) (CLI ↔ Web interoperable)

- 📦 Archive directly from CLI/Web

- 📊 Prometheus metrics

- 🤖 [MCP server](https://root-gg.github.io/plik/features/mcp-server.html) for AI assistant integration



### Third-party clients



   - [ShareX](https://getsharex.com/) Uploader : Directly integrated into ShareX

   - [plikSharp](https://github.com/iss0/plikSharp) : A .NET API client for Plik

   - [Filelink for Plik](https://gitlab.com/joendres/filelink-plik) : Thunderbird Addon to upload attachments to Plik



### Quick Start



```bash

# 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](http://127.0.0.1:8080)



### Command Line Client



```bash

$ 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](https://root-gg.github.io/plik/features/cli-client.html) for installation



### How to Contribute



Contributions are welcome! See the [contributing guide](https://root-gg.github.io/plik/contributing) for development setup and build instructions.



### License



[MIT](LICENSE)