Plik

Plik is a scalable & friendly temporary file upload system — like WeTransfer, self-hosted.

Features

• 🖥️ Modern Vue 3 web interface with i18n (12 languages) and light, dark, custom themes
• 🧑‍💻 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, GitHub, 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)
• 🖼️ File preview with syntax highlighting, Markdown rendering, Mermaid diagrams and media player
• 📦 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