Feature · Expiring links
Expiring links that close after the first open.
One-time links are on Solo and Team. Start your 10-day trial, cancel anytime.
What it does
A link that is read once, by the person you sent it to
Opens once, then closes
Switch on “One-time link” and the first person to open the page sees it. Everyone after that, including the same person on a second visit, sees a short “this link has already been opened” screen instead of the page.
Link previews can’t burn it
Slack, iMessage and other apps fetch a link to draw its preview before a human opens it, and crawlers fetch links too. They get a neutral sealed screen and never use up the view, so the one open is saved for your recipient.
Re-arm it in one click
Turn the switch off and on again to allow one more view, or publish a new version of the page: either one resets the link. The address never changes, so you can send the same link again.
Stack it with a password
The one-time check runs after the password and the email gate, so a wrong password never spends the view. For anything sensitive, use both: a secret to get in, and a page that can only be read once.
What you see
You know when the one view was spent
How it works
Three steps to a one-time link
Publish the page
Say “publish this” in Claude or upload the file at app.pagelive.io. You can make it a one-time link at publish time, from the API or MCP (view_once), or later.
Switch on One-time link
In the page’s settings, turn on “One-time link”. Preview the page before you do: your own open counts as the one view too.
Send it
Send the link as usual. The first person who opens it reads the page; the dashboard shows “Already opened” once the view is spent.
Every way a link can end
Four ways to end a link, and what Pagelive does not do
One-time link
Closes itself after the first human open. Solo and Team.
Pause the page
Stops serving right away, on every plan. Resume it later and the same link works again (on Free, resuming needs a free page slot).
Change the password
Every earlier unlock stops working at once; only people with the new password get in. Solo and Team.
Delete the page
Serving stops immediately. The page stays restorable from your archive for 30 days, then it is removed for good.
A one-time link controls the page, not what the reader does while it is open: someone can still take a screenshot. For what each layer protects, read what “anyone with the link” really means.
Frequently asked
A link that stops showing its content after a condition is met: a date, a number of views, or the owner switching it off. On Pagelive the built-in condition is the first view (a one-time link), and you can end any link yourself at any moment by pausing or deleting the page.
Not today. There is no setting that switches a page off on a date you pick. If a page must close on a given day, pause it on that day (it takes one click and works on every plan), or make it a one-time link so it closes after it is read.
The first genuine visit in a browser is served the page and stamps it as opened. Every later visit gets an “already opened” screen. Link previews, crawlers and scripted fetches get a neutral sealed screen and never spend the view, so pasting the link into Slack or iMessage does not use it up.
One-time links and passwords are on Solo and Team ($15/mo or $49/mo per workspace). Pausing and deleting a page work on every plan, including Free.
Use a dedicated secret-sharing tool for credentials. Pagelive one-time links are for pages: a proposal, an offer, a report, a document you want read once. Phishing and pages built to collect other people’s passwords or card details are taken down.
Yes. The single open is tracked like any other: when it happened and how long the reader stayed. On Solo and Team you also get an email when it is opened.