How do I share a snippet or a file as a short link?
Paste text or attach a file, choose how long the link should live, and you get a short URL that expires on its own. This is the one tool here that does store what you share: a link has to point at something, so the content is held on this site for the lifetime you pick — one hour at the latest thirty days — and deleting it early is a single click. Nothing is listed publicly and nothing is indexed.
Runs entirely in your browser · no upload · no account · no watermark
- Paste text or attach one file.
- Pick how long the link should live.
- Create the link and send it. It stops working on its own.
Up to 200,000 characters.
0 characters
One file, up to 10 MB.
Your link
The delete token below works once, now. It is not stored anywhere you can look it up later.
What this page can do
- Share up to 200,000 characters of text or a file up to 10 MB
- Expiry from one hour to thirty days, enforced by the store itself
- Optional burn after reading — the first open deletes it
- No account, no listing, no indexing
When to use this page
- Handing a short snippet or a small file to someone on another device.
- You want the content to expire automatically instead of living in a chat history.
- You need a link quickly and the content is not confidential.
When to use something else
- The content is sensitive or private: this is the one tool on the site that uploads, and the text is stored on our KV until it expires.
- You need end-to-end encryption, access control, an audit log or collaborative editing.
- You need long-term storage or a file larger than 10 MB / 200,000 characters.
How it compares with other options
This is the deliberate exception to the site’s no-upload rule. A paste is stored in the site’s KV, anyone with the link can read it, and the operator could in principle read it too; it is excluded from search indexing and deleted at expiry, but it is not end-to-end encrypted. Encrypted messengers, age/GPG-encrypted files or an end-to-end encrypted paste service are the right choice for anything confidential. Storage is finite, so there is a daily write budget that ordinary use will not reach.
Where your data goes
This is the one page on the site that does store what you give it — a link needs something to point at. The text or file is written to this site's own key-value store under a random 24-character key, with the expiry you choose enforced by the store itself. It is not listed, not searchable and not indexed. When the timer expires the entry is deleted; opening a burn-after-reading link deletes it immediately. Once deleted there is no copy to recover, including for us.
Questions about this tool
- Where exactly is my paste stored?
- In a Cloudflare key-value store that belongs to this site, under a key that is 24 random hex characters. There is no public list of pastes, no search, no account and no dashboard anyone else can browse. Each entry carries its own expiry, and the store deletes it when that expires — that is enforced by the store, not by a cleanup job that might not run.
- How long does a link last?
- You choose: one hour, one day, seven days or thirty days. Thirty days is the maximum, and there is no way to extend a paste — create a new one instead. When the timer runs out the link returns 404, permanently.
- What does “burn after reading” do?
- The first time the link is opened the content is returned and then deleted immediately. Every later open returns 404. It is a one-shot link. Note the obvious consequence: if the recipient opens it and the page then fails to render, the content is gone — the way out is to create a new paste.
- What are the limits?
- 200,000 characters of text, or one file up to 10 MB. Anything larger returns a clear error rather than a truncated paste, because a silently shortened file is worse than a refusal.
- Can I delete a paste before it expires?
- Yes. Creating a paste returns a delete token that is shown once, next to the link, and that token removes the paste immediately. Keep the tab open if you expect to want that — the token is not stored anywhere you can retrieve later.
- Should I use this for passwords or private keys?
- No. The content is stored in readable form on a server, so anyone who obtains the link or the stored value can read it. For a secret, use a tool where the key never leaves the recipient’s side of the link — this one is for notes, logs, config snippets and files that are merely inconvenient to retype.
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Guides
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