megatools-reg(1)

💖 megatools-reg 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to megatools-reg from the megatools(1) squad — this is the one that makes you a whole new Mega.nz account ✨

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

megatools reg [--scripted] --register --email <email> --name <realname> --password <password>
megatools reg [--scripted] --verify <state> <link>

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So you wanna register a new Mega.nz account. Slay. But it's not a one-step thing, it's a two-step glow-up, and you have to do them in order:

1. --register: makes you a new non-verified account 💅
2. --verify: confirms the account with the link that got sent to <email> 📩

There's a whole example of the registration flow down below, don't worry, we'll get there. 🫶

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• --register — creates your new non-verified account. Step one of the journey, bb.
• --verify <state> <link> — verifies the account you already made with megatools reg --register. You have to hand it the <state> that came back from megatools reg --register, plus the verification link from the email that was sent to <email>. Both of them, no skipping. ✨
• --email <email> — your email is your new account username, so it's literally what you'll use to sign in. It's giving main character login credential.

⚠️ NOTES: beware that ATM, email format is not validated by megatools. So you could type absolute nonsense and it would just... let you. 🙈

• --name <realname> — your real (or fake) name. No judgement here, we don't verify vibes. 💅
• --password <password> — plaintext password. There is zero strength checking happening, so making it a strong one is entirely on you, bestie. Pick good. 🔥
• --scripted — after registration, it prints the command you can use to finish the registration, in a format that's suitable for scripting purposes. Very "hand this off to a robot" energy. 🤖
• --limit-speed <speed> — sets the max allowed upload and download speed, measured in KiB/s. This option overrides the config file settings. 0 means no limit at all, go feral. And when you're using ParallelTransfers > 1, the upload speed limit gets applied to each transfer individually.
• --proxy <proxy> — use a proxy server to connect to mega.nz. This option overrides config file settings. More info lives in the libcurl docs at ⟨https://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/CURLOPT_PROXY.html⟩. Some acceptable values are:
  • none : disable proxy if it was enabled in the config file.
  • socks5://localhost:9050 : local SOCKSv5 proxy server
  • socks5h://localhost:9050 : local SOCKSv5 proxy server with DNS handled by the proxy
• --netif <ifname|ip> — the network interface or local IP address used for outgoing connections. Heads up: you have to specify an IP address bound to one of your local network interfaces when you're specifying an IP address. 🧚
• --ip-proto <proto> — which IP protocol to prefer when connecting to mega.nz (v4, v6, or any). This is just an advisory option, so it's a suggestion, not a demand. Megatools resolves the mega.nz domain, and then uses an A or AAAA record based on the stated preference. 🌈
• --config <path> — load configuration from a file. 📁
• --ignore-config-file — disables loading .megarc. Sometimes you just don't wanna hear from your config file, y'know? 💀
• --debug [<options>] — enables debugging of various aspects of the megatools operation. You can enable multiple debugging options separated by commas (eg. --debug api,fs). Available options are:
  • http: dump HTTP request/response details (can be used to debug connection/proxy issues)
  • api: dump Mega.nz API calls
  • fs: dump Mega.nz filesystem (may require --reload to actually print something)
  • cache: dump cache contents
  • tman: dump transfer manager events
• --version — show version information. ⭐

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🌸 EXAMPLE 🌸

First, create a non-verified account:

$ megatools reg --register --email your@email.com --name "Your Name" --password "Your Password"

Registration email was sent to test@megous.com. To complete registration, you must run:

  megatools reg --verify vbFFFv7AFM25etzkFXLs9A==:Z7FFbgAAAAAAAAAArL33eA==:inEONh3tmwY @LINK@

(Where @LINK@ is the registration link from the 'MEGA Signup' email)

Now wait for a verification mail and run the command as asked:

$ megatools reg --verify vbFFFv7AFM25etzkFXLs9A==:Z7FFbgAAAAAAAAAArL33eA==:inEONh3tmwY \
    'https://mega.nz/#confirmciyfWXRGFNcM...'

Account registered successfully! 🎉👑

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

megatools(1), megarc(5), megatools-df(1), megatools-dl(1), megatools-get(1), megatools-ls(1), megatools-mkdir(1), megatools-put(1), megatools-reg(1), megatools-rm(1), megatools-copy(1). The whole friend group, fr fr. 💖

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🧚 MEGATOOLS 🧚

Part of the megatools(1) suite of commands. You're in the family now. 🫶

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💀 BUGS 💀

There is no upstream support for bugreports and feature requests. But you can send code patches to megatools@xff.cz ⟨mailto:megatools@xff.cz⟩ to get them integrated into upstream repository. So if you fix it yourself, they'll take it — that's the vibe. 🔥

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Megatools was written by Ondrej Jirman < megatools@xff.cz ⟨mailto:megatools@xff.cz⟩ >, 2013-2022.

Official website is ⟨https://xff.cz/megatools/⟩.

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k that's the whole page bestie, go make yourself an account 💜

This was megatools-reg(1) from the megatools suite, dated 11 July 2025 — mwah, ily, go register something ✨