Share a File With a Link, No Account Needed

Handing a file to someone in the middle of a task is a small problem that most tools answer with a large one: make an account, install a client, accept the terms, then share. The AI SENSE uploader at aisense.no/upload answers it with a text box and a drop zone, and it is built on the same rule we use for the rest of our public tools. Keep the service narrow, and keep data out of it when the job can be done without holding on to it.

The browser posts straight to the API

The page is a thin front end. When you drop a file, your browser sends it directly to the public storage endpoint at aisenseapi.com/services/v1/storage and reads back an identifier. The shareable link is that endpoint with the identifier on the end.

Nothing passes through the website itself. The upload travels from your browser to the API, so the only copy that exists is the one the API stores. The page you are looking at never sees the bytes.

The link is unguessable, not secret

Each upload gets a random identifier that no one can arrive at by guessing. That makes the link safe to send to the person you mean to send it to. It does not make the file private: anyone who holds the URL can open it, so the URL is the whole of the access control. Do not put secrets, credentials or personal data behind it.

This is a handoff, not a home. The copy is removed 24 hours after it was written, which is long enough to pass something to a colleague, a script or a support thread, and short enough that nothing lingers. It is not a place to host files you need next week.

The same thing from the command line

Because the page only wraps the API, everything it does is one request you can make yourself. Upload a file, then read it back with the identifier from the response.

curl -s -X POST https://aisenseapi.com/services/v1/storage \
  -F "file=@report.pdf"

# the response carries a storage_id; the shareable
# link is the same endpoint with that id on the end

curl -s https://aisenseapi.com/services/v1/storage/<storage_id>

No key and no header are needed. There is a service-wide ceiling of 5000 requests per IP per 24 hours, which no ordinary use of the uploader will approach, and the endpoint answers in the same flat JSON shape as the rest of the free public APIs.

Built and operated by AI SENSE AS

The uploader is a browser front end for one endpoint in the free public REST API collection. It follows the same contract as the rest: no account, a narrow job, the exact output shown, and sensitive data kept out of the service when the work does not need it to stay.