Safelinking
- Free allowance
- A protect API is published with no account field: POST https://safelinking.net/api with 'links-to-protect' mandatory and optional captcha, password, title, provider and mirror fields, plus rsdf/dlc/rtc/cnl2 container output.
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- anonymousno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- reported4 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-07checked 2026-10-23 (live); stale on 2026-11-07
| Free tier | A protect API is published with no account field: POST https://safelinking.net/api with 'links-to-protect' mandatory and optional captcha, password, title, provider and mirror fields, plus rsdf/dlc/rtc/cnl2 container output. No price list or quota appears on the API page or the front page. unit unlimited; metered on none; The front page is the same form with 'Mirrors', 'Package details' and 'Security Options' (captcha, package password, IP filtering). Nothing on it names a limit. |
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| Price | USD 0 |
| Limits |
No byte quota, no account quota and no per-day generation count is published. |
| Binding | none Nothing in the vocabulary binds at 1 TiB/month because no bytes pass through Safelinking; the only gate is its optional captcha on creation. |
| Identity | anonymous The API documentation lists no credential parameter. The 2011-era competitors required username:password; this one's protect call does not. Not confirmed end to end because the host did not answer a direct request. |
| Egress | No egress of its own: a package page sends the visitor to the host links. free allowance: none: no service-side bytes |
| Per-object cap | not applicable: it protects link lists; the linked host's cap applies when the file is fetched. |
| Retention | unverified: no retention statement found. Old links (a 2018 post cites two) were still being discussed, but none was fetched successfully. |
| Interface | rest Two documented HTTP endpoints: POST /api to protect (returns the package URL) and GET /check?link=<package>&output=JSON|XML for a link_status check. Container exports: RSDF, DLC, CCF and CNL2. Short links on sflk.in. endpoint: https://safelinking.net/api |
| Tooling | Any HTTP client; the API is form-encoded and documented in the project's GitHub README. JDownloader has a safelinking decrypter. |
| Composes with | It is the indirection half of a pipeline: protect a set of host links, then hand the package URL to a downloader. It does not resolve to direct links and does not bypass any host limit. |
| Reliability | Treat reachability as location-dependent, not as uptime. |
| Notes | Answers half question negatively: it will mint a protected link anonymously over HTTP, but it does not resolve anything to a direct link and it adds a captcha rather than removing one. |
| Evidence note | reported The page text is a provider snapshot rather than a live origin read, and both direct probes timed out, so the record is third-party until a request succeeds from a client network. A measured rung needs one successful /check call. |
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Evidence 4
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-23 | github.com/safelinking/Safelinking | the protect API at https://safelinking.net/api with 'links-to-protect' mandatory and no credential field; the /check?link=&output=JSON|XML status endpoint; rsdf/dlc/rtc/cnl2 outputs |
| 2026-10-23 | safelinking.net/ | the live form: Mirrors block, Package details, Security Options with captcha, package password and IP filtering |
| 2026-10-23 | probe: https://safelinking.net/check?link=https://safelinking.net/s64aTFQ&output=JSON | the API host did not answer a user: timeout after 21151.8 ms, 0 bytes, error 'timeout' |
| 2026-10-23 | probe: https://safelinking.net/s64aTFQ | the package host also timed out: 21133.5 ms, 0 bytes, error 'timeout' |
More fields 3
| api endpoints | ["POST https://safelinking.net/api","GET https://safelinking.net/check?link=<package>&output=JSON"] |
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| short domain | sflk.in |
| reachability | timeout from this host |