pastebin

pastebin is a self-hosted pastebin web app that lets you create and share "ephemeral" data between devices and users. There is a configurable expiry (TTL) afterwhich the paste expires and is purged. There is also a handy CLI for interacting with the service in a easy way or you can also use curl!

Source

$ go install github.com/prologic/pastebin/...

OS X Homebrew

Coming soon

There is a formula provided that you can tap and install from prologic/homebrew-pastebin:

$ brew tap prologic/pastebin
$ brew install pastebin

NB: This installs the latest released binary; so if you want a more recent unreleased version from master you'll have to clone the repository and build yourself.

pastebin is still early days so contributions, ideas and expertise are much appreciated and highly welcome!

Usage

Run pastebin:

$ pastebin

Create a paste:

$ echo "Hello World" | pb
http://localhost:8000/92sHUeGPfoFctazBxdEhae

Or use the Web UI: http://localhost:8000/

Or curl:

$ echo "hello World" | curl -q -L -d @- -o - http://localhost:8000/
...

There is also an included command line utility for convenience:

echo hello | pb

Configuration

When running the pastebin server there are a few default options you might want to tweak:

$ ./pastebin --help
  ...
  -expiry duration
        expiry time for pastes (default 5m0s)
  -fqdn string
        FQDN for public access (default "localhost")

Setting a custom -expiry lets you change when pastes are automatically expired (the purge time is 2x this value). The ``-fqdn` option is used as a namespace for generating the UUID(s) for pastes, change this to be your domain name.

The command-line utility by default talk to http://localhost:8000 which can be changed via the -url option or by creating a $HOME/.pastebin.conf configuration file with contents similar to:

$ cat ~/.pastebin.conf
url=https://paste.mydomain.com/

License

MIT

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