How to share a Claude artifact

You asked Claude to build something, a calculator, a landing page, a little interactive widget, and it appeared in the artifact panel. It works. Now you want to send it to someone, or put it on your site, and you hit the real question: how do you actually share a Claude artifact as a normal link?

This guide covers both ways: publishing inside Claude, and turning your artifact into a standalone live page that you fully control.

First, what a Claude artifact is

An artifact is the self-contained thing Claude builds for you in a side panel: usually a single block of HTML, CSS and JavaScript that runs on its own. Because it is self-contained, it is easy to move. That one fact makes everything below possible.

Option 1: publish a Claude artifact

Claude can publish an artifact and give you a link to it. It is the fastest route and a good fit when you just want to show a colleague what you made.

There is one catch worth understanding before you rely on it. When you publish a Claude artifact, the link is public to anyone who has it. There is no way to share it privately with only the people you choose, and no password option. It is all or nothing: the whole world, or no link at all.

That single limit is one of the reasons we started Toolcrow. Plenty of things you build are not meant for everyone: a draft for one client, an internal tool, a private prototype. You still want a real link, just not a public one.

Option 2: turn it into a live page you control

Because an artifact is just HTML, CSS and JavaScript, you can take that code and host it as its own page. That gives you a clean link, control over who can see it, and the option to embed it. This is exactly what Toolcrow is for.

Here is the full flow:

• Copy the code from the artifact. In Claude, open the artifact and copy its code. If it is a single file, that is all you need.
• Paste it into Toolcrow. Drop the code into a new Toolcrow drop. It detects the code type and gets it ready to run.
• Get your Claude artifact link. Toolcrow publishes it to its own URL right away. Open it, and your artifact runs as a standalone page. No build step, no server to set up.
• Choose who can see it. Keep it private to just you, protect it with a password so only the people you send it to can open it, or make it open to anyone with the link. This is the part publishing inside Claude cannot do.
• Embed a Claude artifact if you want. For public tools you can grab an embed snippet and drop the artifact straight into your own website or blog.

The link does not expire on a timer. It stays up until you decide to turn it off.

Why host it instead of screenshotting it

A screenshot shows what your artifact looks like. A live link lets people actually use it. If you built a calculator, a converter or an interactive demo, the whole point is that a visitor can click and type, not just look. Hosting the real thing is the difference between showing your work and shipping it.

It is also cleaner than most alternatives. Toolcrow serves your artifact in an isolated way and does not bolt ads or trackers onto it. What you built is what your visitors get.

See it in practice

Our own free tools are made exactly this way: built as small, self-contained pages, then published as live links. The UTM Link Builder is one you can open right now, and we wrote up how we built it in a single Claude chat.

Share your first artifact

If you have an artifact open in Claude, you are two minutes away from a link you control. Copy the code, paste it into Toolcrow, and share the URL, publicly, privately, or embedded on your own site. It is free to start.