transferwee

transferwee is a simple Python 3 script to download/upload files via wetransfer.com.

Usage

% transferwee -h
usage: transferwee [-h] {download,upload} ...

Download/upload files via wetransfer.com

positional arguments:
  {download,upload}  action
    download         download files
    upload           upload files

optional arguments:
  -h, --help         show this help message and exit

Upload files

upload subcommand uploads all the files and then print the shorten URL corresponding the transfer.

If both -f option and -t option are passed the email upload will be used (in that way the sender will get an email after the upload and after every recipient will download the file, please also note that because -t option accepts several fields a -- is needed to separate it with the file arguments). Otherwise the link upload will be used.

% transferwee upload -h
usage: transferwee upload [-h] [-n display_name] [-m message] [-f from] [-t to [to ...]] [-v] file [file ...]

positional arguments:
  file             files to upload

optional arguments:
  -h, --help       show this help message and exit
  -n display_name  title for the transfer
  -m message       message description for the transfer
  -f from          sender email
  -t to [to ...]   recipient emails
  -v               get verbose/debug logging

The following example creates an hello text file with just Hello world! and then upload it with the message passed via -m option:

% echo 'Hello world!' > hello
% md5 hello
MD5 (hello) = 59ca0efa9f5633cb0371bbc0355478d8
% transferwee upload -m 'Just a text file with the mandatory message...' hello
https://we.tl/o8mGUXnxyZ

Download file

download subcommand download all the files from the given we.tl/wetransfer.com URLs.

If the -g option is used it will just print the direct link corresponding each URLs without downloading files.

The URL supported are the ones in the form:

• https://we.tl/<short_url_id>: received via link upload, via email to the sender and printed by upload action
• https://wetransfer.com/<transfer_id>/<security_hash>: directly not shared in any ways but the short URLs actually redirect to them
• https://wetransfer.com/<transfer_id>/<recipient_id>/<security_hash>: received via email by recipients when the files are shared via email upload

% transferwee download -h
usage: transferwee download [-h] [-g] [-o file] [-v] url [url ...]

positional arguments:
  url         URL (we.tl/... or wetransfer.com/downloads/...)

optional arguments:
  -h, --help  show this help message and exit
  -g          only print the direct link (without downloading it)
  -o file     output file to be used
  -v          get verbose/debug logging

The following example download the hello text file that was uploaded in the previous example for upload subcommand. Please note that if any file with the same name already exists it will be overwritten!:

% transferwee download https://we.tl/o8mGUXnxyZ
% cat hello
Hello world!
% md5 hello
MD5 (hello) = 59ca0efa9f5633cb0371bbc0355478d8

Dependencies

transferwee needs requests package.