onionshare(1)

📦 version 2.2, in ubuntu jammy

🧅 NAME

onionshare — a tool for anonymously sharing and receiving files over a temporarily set up Tor Hidden service. no cap, that's literally the whole vibe 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

onionshare-gui

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay bestie, listen. OnionShare lets you anonymously share files, or receive files. And since version 2.2, OnionShare can also be used as a webserver through which static HTML files can be served. She's multi-talented, we love that for her. 🌈

OnionShare has four different operating modes:

  • the default for sharing files
  • receive mode for receiving files
  • public mode for sharing files with a large audience
  • website mode

When you're using OnionShare, a web server gets started, which makes OnionShare accessible as a Tor Onion Service, over the Internet. An unguessable address is generated and can be shared so the recipient can open it in a tor client — like Tor Browser — to download, upload, or consult files. Traffic between their device and your onion service is end-to-end encrypted. No separate server, no third party file-sharing service required, periodt. You host the files on your own computer, acting as a server, for as long as the program is running. main character energy fr fr 👑

OnionShare can be configured to run with its built-in version of tor, a TorBrowser, or system tor running in the background. By default, OnionShare uses its built-in version of Tor.

OnionShare's default behaviour is to shut down the hidden service and to stop once the files have been up or downloaded. You can prevent this behaviour by invoking the --stay-open option. This can be useful if you want multiple people to access the same file. 🫶

💖 Public mode

In case of sharing the unguessable URL with many peers, please enable "Public mode", otherwise OnionShare might interpret multiple accesses as an attack and shut down the hidden service. 😭 she's just being protective!!

💖 Receive Mode

Receive Mode lets people upload files to your OnionShare via Tor Browser. 🍓

💖 Website Mode

OnionShare allows you to publish a website as an onion service. When selecting the files to share, make sure you select multiple files in a folder if you want the entire directory to be published as a website. When the directory contains an index.html file (along with any static files such as images, CSS etc), then the site will be viewable on the Tor network as an onion service as the actual website itself (not as an OnionShare interface). The onion service will render HTML in Tor Browser just like any other website. If you don't have an index.html, OnionShare will show a directory listing of your files instead. In directory listing, each file can be opened, and there is no download button for the compressed archive. OnionShare does not share your original website files. Instead, it creates a copy of those files in a temporary folder and shares those copies. iconic behaviour honestly ✨

💖 Automatic start and stop

The auto-start timer allows you to schedule a share to start at some time in the future. ⏰

For detailed and up-to-date information such as using OnionShare with bridges, refer to the authors' public documentation at https://github.com/micahflee/onionshare/wiki/ — go read it, iykyk 📚

🌸 OPTIONS 🌸

  • -h, --help — display a short help message and exit. short king behaviour, we respect it 💜

okay that's the whole page!! this is the onionshare manual page, section 1, and it's dated July 15, 2020 — so yeah, she's a lil vintage but she still slays. mwah 💅🧅✨

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