Professional Screen Recording Storage

Engineering and support teams generate a steady stream of screen recordings — bug reproductions captured straight off a customer's session, internal Loom-style walkthroughs, onboarding tutorials, async standup demos — and most of these are short MP4 or WebM files that need a stable URL more than they need a social video platform. files.link treats a screen recording exactly like the file it is: upload it, get a permanent CDN-backed URL, embed or share it.

The upload is three calls — POST /v1/files/{folderId} returns a presigned URL and id, you PUT the recording bytes to that URL, then POST /v1/files/confirm-upload with {ids:[...]} — and because the auth header is just your raw API key, you can wire it into a CLI that fires the moment OBS, ScreenStudio, or QuickTime finishes an export. MP4 with H.264 is the safe default because it plays inline in every browser straight from a CDN URL dropped into a <video> tag; WebM works too where you control the player.

The decision against Loom or Vimeo usually comes down to cost shape and ownership. Loom and Vimeo bill per seat or gate features behind tiers, and the recording lives inside their UI; files.link charges prepaid credits against the bytes you store and serve, and hands you a raw URL you own and can embed anywhere — a docs page, a Linear ticket, a Slack message, a customer email — with no player chrome you didn't choose.

There is no duration or count limit beyond per-file size, so an hour-long architecture walkthrough is no different from a 20-second crash repro. Privacy is the other lever: a public demo you want indexable can be a public file, but a recording of a customer's screen with their data on it should be a private file shared through a signed URL that expires, so the link you paste into a support thread stops working after the window closes instead of circulating indefinitely.

What files.link deliberately does not do is transcode into adaptive bitrate ladders or generate thumbnails — if you need HLS renditions for a polished marketing reel, a dedicated video platform is the better fit. For the day-to-day reality of dev and support recordings, progressive MP4 over a global CDN is exactly enough, and it costs a fraction of per-seat video tooling.

When a clip is really a finished live event or broadcast rather than a quick demo, keep it on live stream archive for recorded sessions, which is tuned for long-tail replay libraries.