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No account linking ne...","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":0},"record":{"topic":"debrid","slug":"hubcloud","provider":"HubCloud","url":"https://hubcloud.ist/","category":"Google Drive link-to-direct-download generator, with API and folder packaging","tier":"free","free_tier":{"stated":"Generating a link is free and needs no account: 'Paste your Google Drive link and generate a high-speed direct download link instantly. No account linking needed.' No price, byte allowance or account quota is printed anywhere on the page.","unit":"none","metered_on":"none","source_url":"https://hubcloud.ist/","read_on":"2026-10-23","notes":"The product withholds its own numbers entirely; the quota it moves is Google Drive's."},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"Not stated. Nothing on the page names a size for a wrapped file or for the ZIP a folder share produces.","bytes":null,"source_url":"https://hubcloud.ist/","notes":"The page's own figures (4.2 GB, 1.8 GB) are mocked-up dashboard filenames, not limits, and are not used here."},"retention":{"stated":"Not stated. The wrapper stores a Drive file id, so the link lives as long as the Drive object does.","days":null,"source_url":"https://hubcloud.ist/","notes":""},"egress":{"terms":"Every download is proxied through HubCloud as a 'high-speed direct download link'; folder shares are 'Download folders as ZIP archives instantly'. Nothing is metered and no allowance is printed.","metered":false,"free_allowance":null,"price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://hubcloud.ist/"},"interface":["rest","unknown"],"interface_detail":"REST upload endpoint `curl -X POST api.hubcloud.foo/upload`, announced as 'New: API v2.0 Released', with a dashboard at hubcloud.foo/drive/admin. The page also offers a 'Pack Manager' that combines several links into one package and a Drive integration that requires no account linking.","endpoint":"https://api.hubcloud.foo/upload","tooling":"No client library. The generation step is a form on the page; the API is a single documented POST. Third parties already automate it: hubcloud.cfd is a public 'HubCloud Bypass' page whose only feature is 'Extract direct download links from HubCloud video/drive pages instantly'.","chaining":"The middle layer of the Indian index chain: an index site posts a HubCloud link, HubCloud re-exposes the Google Drive file as a direct link that indexers and apps can hand to a downloader, and the same file is often re-wrapped one layer down by DriveSeed or GDFlix.","limits":[{"kind":"per-ip-shaping","value":"unstated by HubCloud; the underlying Google Drive per-file download throttle is what a client hits","source":"https://hubcloud.ist/"},{"kind":"request-rate","value":"unstated","source":"https://hubcloud.ist/"}],"limits_note":"The absence is the finding: a service whose product is removing somebody else's limit publishes no limit of its own, so a client cannot budget against it. The Drive-side ceiling is documented one link further down the chain by DriveSeed, which lists '403: User Rate Limit Exceeded - Fixed to Great Extent' as a release note.","binding":"per-ip-shaping","binding_note":"At 1 TiB a month the throttle that reappears is Google's per-file and per-session shaping on the Drive object behind the wrapper. HubCloud adds no counter of its own, so nothing else on this record can bind.","identity_cost":{"kind":"anonymous","detail":"Generating a link needs nothing: 'No account linking needed'. A dashboard exists at /drive/admin for managing files, but the public path does not require it.","country":null},"reliability_note":"The brand rotates hostnames faster than the index sites update: hubcloud.xyz could not be checked at all because the broker's DNS lookup timed out (503 destination-unchecked, retryable), which establishes nothing about the domain; hubcloud.ink answered an empty 204; and the live host was reached only through hubcloud.foo, which redirects to hubcloud.ist. A client that hard-codes a host breaks within weeks.","confidence":"documented","confidence_note":"Feature list, API endpoint and dashboard path were read on the live page. The absence of any published quota is itself documented. What would raise the rung: one measured download through a generated link, with the byte count and the status of the first throttle.","evidence":[{"url":"https://hubcloud.foo/","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"live service at hubcloud.ist: 'Paste your Google Drive link and generate a high-speed direct download link instantly. No account linking needed.', 'New: API v2.0 Released', folder-to-ZIP share, Pack Manager"},{"url":"https://hubcloud.ist/","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"the same page served directly, confirming the redirect target is the app rather than a parking page"},{"url":"https://hubcloud.cfd/","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"third parties run a dedicated bypass front for the service ('Extract direct download links from HubCloud video/drive pages instantly'), which shows the wrapper is used at volume"}],"verdict":"qualifies-with-caveat","verified_at":"2026-10-23T03:34:15.635Z","price_per_tb_month":"USD 0","notes":"The record prices a link wrapper, not storage: nothing here can be mounted, and the bytes always belong to Google. hubcloud.xyz was the ledger's assumed host and is dead.","extras":{"live_hosts":"hubcloud.ist, reached via hubcloud.foo","unverified_hosts":"hubcloud.xyz (broker could not check it: DNS timeout, exit 4 - not a fact about the domain)","empty_hosts":"hubcloud.ink (origin answered 204 with an empty body)","third_party_fronts":"hubcloud.cfd"}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:per-ip-shaping","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.limits[1].value","kind":"limit:request-rate","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.price_per_tb_month","kind":"price-per-tb","num":0.0,"unit":"TB","per":"month","currency":"USD","usd":0.0,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"}],"unknown":[],"history":[],"drift":[]}]}