NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

       onionshare  [ -v ] [ --filenames filenames... ]

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.

       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 Mode 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
              show this help message and exit

       --local-only
              Don't use Tor (only for development)

       -v, --verbose
              Log OnionShare errors to stdout, and web errors to disk

       --filenames filenames [filenames ...]
              List of files or folders to share

                                                   July, 2022                                      onionshare(1)