Plik
Plik is a temporary file upload system (Wetransfer like) in Go.
Want to access the documentation? **https://root-gg.github.io/plik** The project is written primarily in Go, distributed under the Other license, first published in 2015. It has gained significant community traction with 1,785 stars and 193 forks on GitHub. Key topics include: docker, e2ee, file-sharing, file-upload, golang.
Want to access the documentation? https://root-gg.github.io/plik
Want to see a live demo ? https://plik.root.gg
Want to chat with us ? Telegram group : https://t.me/plik_rootgg
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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
Quick Start
bash# Docker docker run -p 8080:8080 rootgg/plik # From release wget https://github.com/root-gg/plik/releases/download/1.4.2/plik-server-1.4.2-linux-amd64.tar.gz tar xzvf plik-server-1.4.2-linux-amd64.tar.gz cd plik-server-1.4.2-linux-amd64/server && ./plikd # Debian / Ubuntu curl -fsSL https://root-gg.github.io/plik/apt/gpg.key | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/plik.gpg echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/plik.gpg] https://root-gg.github.io/plik/apt stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/plik.list sudo apt update && sudo apt install plik-server sudo systemctl start 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
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 for installation
How to Contribute
Contributions are welcome! See the contributing guide for development setup and build instructions.
License
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