bunflared

bunflared 5173 3000 puts your local app on a temporary https://<words>.trycloudflare.com link, through a Cloudflare quick tunnel. No account, no deploy. Send the link to a client, open it on your phone, close the terminal and it is gone.

It shares several ports behind one link, so a frontend and its API travel together: the first port is served at /, the others under /_port/<port>, and http://localhost:<port> inside your pages and scripts is rewritten to match. WebSockets pass through, so hot reload keeps working for the person on the other end.

And it is a show. The screen catches fire while the tunnel opens, meteors crash into the flames, a firefighter bunny tries his best, and a phoenix rises out of the fire carrying your link. Then every request flies across a traffic lane, the bunny naps when nobody visits and panics on a 5xx. There are achievements. There are secrets.

And it is a live session with the people on the link: chat with them, send them to the page you just fixed, see where their pointer is, get their reactions and their notes pinned on the exact element they mean.

Install

macOS and Linux:

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/mirkobozzetto/bunflared/releases/latest/download/bunflared-installer.sh | sh

Windows (PowerShell):

powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -c "irm https://github.com/mirkobozzetto/bunflared/releases/latest/download/bunflared-installer.ps1 | iex"

That is all: no Rust, no cloudflared to install first. You get bunflared and its short name bunf. On the first share, bunflared downloads Cloudflare's own cloudflared if it is not already installed.

With Rust: cargo install bunflared.

Then, once, so your coding agents know to reach for it when you ask to share something:

bunflared agents

Use

bunf 5173                       # share one app
bunf 5173 3000                  # app at /, its API at /_port/3000
bunf 5173 --calm                # same dashboard, no animations

bunf and bunflared are the same command.

In the dashboard:

Colors follow your terminal: bunflared asks it for its background and picks a light or dark palette. --theme light or --theme dark forces one. NO_COLOR is respected. When a shared port stops answering, visitors get a small bunny page that retries by itself.

Feedback from the people you share with

Every shared page gets a small ✎ Feedback button. Your client writes a remark, a screenshot of the page is attached (or they paste their own), and it lands in bunflared-feedback/, in the folder you ran bunflared from: one Markdown file per note, the image next to it. With Point at it they click the element they mean first: the note records its CSS selector, its text and its position, and the screenshot shows it outlined.

That folder ignores itself in git, so client notes never end up in a commit. Hand it to your coding agent: "read the feedback and fix what they found".

Meanwhile the dashboard shows who is on which page, whether their tab is in front, how long they have been idle and how many times they clicked.

Live session

Each page holds a live connection to the dashboard, and reconnects by itself. The GIF at the top is one: a message from the terminal, the answer from the page, a reaction.

• Chat: m opens a message box. The message pops up on their page, they answer from it, and the answer lands in the chat panel and as a toast.
• Drive the demo: g sends them to a page, R reloads it.
• Radar: pick a visitor and the radar draws their pointer on an outline of their screen. Their page shows a small "Live" pill while it is followed, and nothing is sent while the pointer rests.

• Reactions: 👍 🔥 😍 😕 next to the feedback button. Each one has its own show in the dashboard, confetti, fireworks, hearts or a worried bunny, and a counter. e sends one back.
• Inspector: Tab to the requests, pick one, Enter shows its headers and the start of its bodies, p replays it to your local server and shows the new status next to the old one.

The chat, the reactions and a link to every note are kept in one session_<date>.md next to the notes, so the whole conversation is there for you or your coding agent afterwards. The widget adapts to phones and follows the page's light or dark look.

Tell the people you share with that their visit is followed. --no-widget leaves the pages untouched. The screenshot library is loaded from jsDelivr only when someone sends a screenshot.

For AI agents

Outside a terminal, or with --json, there is no dashboard: one JSON line on stdout once the link works, one on stderr if it fails, and a meaningful exit code. --detach returns as soon as the link works and keeps sharing in the background.

bunflared 5173 3000 --detach    # {"id":"4242","url":"https://...","routes":{...},...}
bunflared ls --json
bunflared down 4242             # or: bunflared down --all

The feedback button stays on the pages of a detached share: you can leave notes on your app while your agent works, and it reads them in bunflared-feedback/.

Teach your agents

bunflared agents writes a short note into the global instructions of every coding agent it finds, so any session knows the command without being told:

Run it again after an update to refresh the note, bunflared agents --remove to take it back out. For any other agent, paste the output of bunflared agents --print into its rules.

Prefer skills? skills/bunflared/SKILL.md follows the Agent Skills format, and skills installs it into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, pi and many more in one line:

npx skills add mirkobozzetto/bunflared -g

Limits

• Anyone with the link reaches your dev server. The random name is the only protection.
• Quick tunnels allow 200 requests in flight and do not carry Server-Sent Events (Cloudflare docs).
• Quick tunnels refuse to start while ~/.cloudflared/config.yaml exists.
• Cloudflare hands out a limited number of new quick links in a short time. Past it, bunflared says so: wait a few minutes.
• The inspector keeps the first 32 KiB of each body, in memory, for the last 200 requests. A request with a bigger body cannot be replayed.
• Tested by hand on macOS. The Linux and Windows builds compile in CI but have not been tried by hand yet.

License

MIT