nightly.link

nightly.link · Storage · 1 record · JSON

nightly.link (GitHub Actions artifact -> anonymous URL wrapper) Storage

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Free tier	No quota of its own — it is a public-read proxy over GitHub Actions artifacts, which are themselves uncounted for public repos but capped at 90-day retention. Service is 'provided totally free of charge'. unit unlimited; metered on unstated
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not stated
Retention	No quota of its own — it is a public-read proxy over GitHub Actions artifacts, which are themselves uncounted for public repos but capped at 90-day retention (90 days)
Egress	Free. Redirects to productionresultssa*.blob.core.windows.net (Azure Blob, GitHub's artifact store) with a signed URL, so downloads never touch GitHub's HTML front end.
Identity	institution derived from the record's prose, not from an identity field, and no signup was executed: artifact size cap. Anonymous users share one global GitHub API rate limit — the site explicitly warns 'The throttling will likely become very bad over time' unless you install their
Binding	none no constraint in the record binds at this scale; the record carries no limit of a kind the vocabulary names
Interface	rest rest
Tooling	oprypin/nightly.link, 1011 stars, AGPL, self-hostable (Go). URL grammar is deterministic: https://nightly.link/<owner>/<repo>/workflows/<workflow>/<branch>/<artifact>.zip
Composes with	This is the multiplier that makes GitHub Actions artifacts usable at all: it converts 'artifact behind a login' into 'plain CDN URL'. Combined with unlimited public repos and the 90-day max retention it becomes a rolling 90-day hot tier of unlimited size, refreshed by scheduled workflows.
Reliability	Single-maintainer free service — a single point of failure if you depend on the hosted instance. Self-host it for production use. Rate limiting is the real bite, not storage.
Notes	No quota of its own — it is a public-read proxy over GitHub Actions artifacts, which are themselves uncounted for public repos but capped at 90-day retention. Service is 'provided totally free of charge'.
Evidence rung	reported One page read moves it to documented.
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04

Evidence (3)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	nightly.link/	'Any public repository is accessible by default and visitors don't need to log in'; 'don't share the global API rate limit ... throttling will likely become very bad over time'
2026-10-21	nightly.link/crystal-lang/crystal/workflows/win/master/cryst	probe: curl -L -> 200, 56909948 bytes downloaded anonymously, redirecting to productionresultssa1.blob.core.windows.net
2026-10-21	github.com/oprypin/nightly.link	1011 stars

Unknown or withheld values (4)

$.free_tier.notes process
$.per_object_cap.notes not-extracted
$.per_object_cap.stated not-extracted
$.retention.notes not-extracted

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