NAME

       onionshare  - a tool for anonymously sharing and receiving files over a temporarily set up
       Tor Hidden service.

SYNOPSIS

       onionshare-gui

DESCRIPTION

       OnionShare lets  you  anonymously  share  files,  or  receive  files.  From  version  2.2,
       OnionShare  can also be used as a webserver through which static HTML files can be served.
       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, and website
       mode.

       When using OnionShare, a web server is started, making  OnionShare  accessible  as  a  Tor
       Onion  Service,  over  the Internet. An unguessable address is generated and can be shared
       for the recipient to open in a tor client, such as Tor Browser, to  download,  upload,  or
       consult  files.  Traffic between their device and your onion service end-to-end encrypted.
       No separate server or third party file-sharing service required. You  host  the  files  on
       your own computer, acting as a server, for as long as the program is running.

       OnionShare  can  be  configured  to run with it's 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.

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

       Website ModeOnionShare 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.

       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/

OPTIONS

       -h, --help
              display a short help message and exit

                                          July 15, 2020                             onionshare(1)