see-cli

A command-line client for the S.EE content sharing platform, enabling users to create and manage short URLs and text snippets and other content efficiently.

Install

macOS (Homebrew)

brew tap sdotee/homebrew-tap
brew install see

Debian / Ubuntu / RHEL (xTom repository)

xTom publishes see in its APT and DNF repository for amd64 and arm64, so updates come through apt upgrade / dnf upgrade. It supports Debian 12 and 13, Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04 and 26.04 LTS, and RHEL, Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux 9 and 10.

# Add the repository (DEB822 sources or a .repo file, as appropriate)
curl -sL ba.sh/repo | sudo bash

sudo apt install see   # Debian / Ubuntu
sudo dnf install see   # RHEL / Rocky / AlmaLinux

Manual setup:

# Debian / Ubuntu
sudo apt install -y ca-certificates curl gnupg
curl -fsSL https://repo.xtom.com/xtom.key | sudo bash -c 'gpg --dearmor > /usr/share/keyrings/xtom.gpg'
echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/xtom.gpg] https://repo.xtom.com/deb stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xtom.list
sudo apt update && sudo apt install see

# RHEL / Rocky / AlmaLinux
sudo curl -o /etc/yum.repos.d/xtom.repo https://repo.xtom.com/rpm/xtom.repo
sudo dnf install see

Linux packages

Each release has .deb, .rpm, .apk and .pkg.tar.zst packages for amd64 and arm64:

sudo dpkg -i see-cli_<version>_linux_<arch>.deb                    # Debian / Ubuntu
sudo rpm -i see-cli_<version>_linux_<arch>.rpm                     # RHEL / Fedora
sudo apk add --allow-untrusted see-cli_<version>_linux_<arch>.apk  # Alpine
sudo pacman -U see-cli_<version>_linux_<arch>.pkg.tar.zst          # Arch Linux

Android (Termux)

Releases from v1.4.1 include a Termux package for aarch64:

dpkg -i see-cli_<version>_android_arm64.termux.deb

Arch Linux (AUR)

yay -S see-cli       # build from source
yay -S see-cli-bin   # pre-built binary

Pre-built binaries

Releases also include see_<OS>_<arch>.tar.gz for macOS, Linux and FreeBSD, and see_Windows_<arch>.zip for Windows, on x86_64 and arm64. From v1.4.1 there is also see_Android_arm64.tar.gz.

From source

Requires Go 1.26+:

git clone https://github.com/sdotee/cli.git
cd cli
make build   # builds ./see

Or with go install (v1.4.1 and later). Go names the binary after the module path, so it installs as cli; rename it to see:

go install github.com/sdotee/cli@latest
mv "$(go env GOPATH)/bin/cli" "$(go env GOPATH)/bin/see"

Configuration

Flag	Environment Variable	Description
--api-key	SEE_API_KEY	API key (Required)
--base-url	SEE_BASE_URL	API base URL
--timeout	SEE_TIMEOUT	Request timeout
--json		Output in JSON format

The two timeout settings use different formats. --timeout takes a Go duration such as 30s or 2m. SEE_TIMEOUT takes a whole number of seconds such as 30; a value that isn't a whole number is ignored and the default timeout is used.

see --timeout 30s domains
SEE_TIMEOUT=30 see domains

Run see help <command> for the complete flag reference. Add --json to any command to receive machine-readable output.

Commands

Domains & Tags

List available domains and tags:

see domains
see tags

Short URLs

Manage short links. see url is an alias for see shorturl. --domain defaults to s.ee; --expire-at takes a Unix timestamp in seconds.

Create

see shorturl create <url> [flags]

# Flags:
# --slug, --domain, --title, --password, --expire-at, --tag-ids, --expiration-redirect-url

Update

see shorturl update <slug> --target-url <url> [--domain s.ee] [--title <title>]

Delete

see shorturl delete <slug> [--domain s.ee]

History and statistics

see shorturl history --page 1
see shorturl stats <slug> --domain s.ee --period daily

The statistics period can be daily, monthly, or totally.

Text

Manage text snippets. Reads from stdin by default or --file. --type can be plain_text, source_code or markdown. Every text needs a title: create uses Untitled when --title is omitted, and update requires --title.

Create

echo "hello" | see text create [flags]

# Flags:
# --file, --type, --slug, --domain, --title, --password, --expire-at, --tag-ids

Update

see text update <slug> --title <title> --file <path> [--domain s.ee]
# or pipe the new content via stdin

Delete

see text delete <slug> [--domain s.ee]

Domains and history

see text domains
see text history --page 1

Files

Upload and manage files.

Domains

List available domains for file uploads:

see file domains

Upload

see file upload [files...] [flags]
# OR
cat image.png | see file upload --name image.png

# Flags:
# --file, -f: Path to file (optional if passed as argument)
# --name, -n: Filename (required if using stdin)
# --domain: Domain for the file URL
# --slug: Custom slug for the file URL
# --private: Upload as a private file

Regular files up to 100 MB use multipart upload. For seekable files larger than 100 MB, the CLI automatically uses the SDK's resumable TUS upload flow, supporting files up to 5 GB. Stdin has no discoverable size and uses regular upload.

History

List uploaded file history (30 files per page):

see file history [flags]

# Flags:
# --page, -p: Page number (default 1)

Download URL

Get a temporary download URL for a private file:

see file download-url <file-id>

The returned URL is temporary and normally remains valid for about one hour.

Delete

see file delete <delete_keys...>

Bio Pages

see bio create "My Bio" \
	--description "About me" \
	--mastodon-url https://c.im/@s.ee \
	--link Blog=https://example.com

see bio update <id> --title "Updated Bio" --link Blog=https://example.com
see bio history --page 1
see bio delete <id>

--link title=url can be repeated. update requires --title, and links supplied during an update replace the existing custom links. create also accepts --domain, --slug and --rss-url.

QR Codes

see qrcode create https://example.com --title "Example"   # --title is required
see qrcode history --page 1
see qrcode delete <slug> --domain s.ee

Creation returns PNG, SVG, and PDF URLs generated by S.EE.

Account

Show API, content, file, and storage usage:

see usage

Validate the configured API key or another token:

see token check
see token check <token>

Version

see version

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.