savedly

Upload any file from your terminal and get a shareable link. No sign-up, no size limit.

Powered by SAVEDLY — free file & video hosting. Videos and images preview and play inline on the link.

$ savedly demo.mp4
https://savedly.net/f/ab12cd34

No install — just curl

SAVEDLY's upload endpoint speaks plain curl, so you do not even need this CLI:

curl -H "x-filename: demo.mp4" --data-binary @demo.mp4 "https://savedly.net/api/upload?plain"
# -> https://savedly.net/f/ab12cd34

Drop that in an alias and you have file sharing from any shell:

upload() { curl -s -H "x-filename: $(basename "$1")" --data-binary @"$1" "https://savedly.net/api/upload?plain"; }
upload report.pdf

Install the CLI

npm install -g savedly      # or: npx savedly <file>

Requires Node 18+ (it uses the built-in fetch). Zero dependencies.

Usage

savedly video.mp4                 # upload and print the link
savedly report.pdf | pbcopy       # copy the link to the clipboard (macOS)
savedly clip.mov && echo done     # links print on stdout, errors on stderr
savedly --help

The link is the only thing printed on success, so it pipes cleanly into other tools.

Why SAVEDLY

• No account, no size limit — a 2GB video sends as easily as a photo.
• Inline preview — videos and images play right on the link, no forced download.
• Embeddable — every public file has an <iframe> embed for your site.
• Optional password and virus-scanned uploads.
• Files with no traffic for 7 days are auto-deleted, so it is built for active sharing.

More at savedly.net.

Self-hosting / custom instance

Point the CLI (and the curl one-liner) at any SAVEDLY-compatible host:

SAVEDLY_HOST=https://files.example.com savedly demo.mp4

License

MIT. This CLI is a thin client to the public upload API; it contains none of SAVEDLY's server code.