How long does a temporary link last?

Seven days from the moment you publish, whether or not you have an account. After that the URL stops serving the page. If you publish a private (unlisted) page on a free account it is three days instead — private pages are the ones most likely to be a quick hand-off, so they get the shorter default.

What actually happens when it expires?

The link stops resolving and anyone who opens it sees an expired page rather than your content. It is not a soft delete you have to follow up on and it does not quietly stay reachable at some other address. The expired page is not a dead end though: it points you to your dashboard, where the page can be republished or extended, so letting something lapse by accident is recoverable.

Can I keep one page longer without making everything permanent?

Yes, and that is the usual shape of this. Any single page can be extended on its own from a couple of dollars, so the three drafts you never think about again still expire while the one the client bookmarked does not. A Pro or Max plan is the other direction: every page you publish becomes permanent by default.

Is a temporary URL private?

Expiring and being private are two different settings, and it is worth being clear about that. A temporary link is unguessable but not secret — anyone holding the URL can open it while it is live. If the content should not be readable by whoever the link gets forwarded to, add a password to the page as well; expiry limits how long, a password limits who.

Can I use a temporary URL for a file rather than a page?

This publishes pages, not file downloads: paste HTML or Markdown and you get a rendered page at a link. That covers a report, a draft, a dashboard or a one-page site. For handing someone a PDF or a zip that expires, a file-transfer service is the right tool and we would rather point you at one than pretend otherwise.

Make a temporary URL that expires on its own

Paste a page, get a link that works for seven days and then stops. Nothing to delete afterwards, no account needed.

Paste it, get a link that expires

Live in seconds, gone in seven days. No account, nothing to clean up.

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Most ways of putting something online are built to be permanent, so when you only need a link for a few days you end up doing the cleanup yourself — and forgetting. A draft you sent a client is still public six months later; an internal report is sitting on a shared drive that half the company can reach.

A temporary URL inverts the default. Publish here without an account and the page is live immediately and expires after seven days on its own. You do not have to remember to take it down, because taking it down is what happens unless you intervene. If it turns out you need it for longer, you can extend that page or make it permanent later — the decision is reversible in the direction that matters.

Three steps to a link that expires

1. Paste your HTML or Markdown into the box above — or upload the file. No account, no setup.
2. Publish. The link is live immediately and works on any device, with the page’s own scripts intact.
3. Do nothing. It expires in seven days by itself. Extend just the pages that earned it.

A real example

Tomás builds internal tools as a contractor. A client asks to see the reporting dashboard he has been working on before they sign off on the next phase — a single self-contained HTML file with charts and a few filters, generated from a sample of their data.

Every option he would normally reach for is wrong in the same way. Emailing the file gets it flagged by their mail gateway. Putting it on his own hosting means a URL that will still be live, with a sample of their data in it, long after the review is over. Setting up a proper staging deploy for a two-day review is an hour of work for something he wants to disappear on Friday.

He pastes the file here instead and sends the link. The client opens it on a laptop and again on a phone during a meeting, the filters work because the page runs its own JavaScript, and nobody installs anything. A week later the link stops resolving without Tomás doing anything, which is exactly what he wanted from the start. For the two pages the client asked to keep, he extends those and leaves the rest to expire.

Questions about temporary URL

Keep your links forever

Free links last 7 days with a free account. On a paid plan every page you create stays online permanently.

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