wastebin
Minimal pastebin with encryption and syntax highlighting
wastebin is a lightweight pastebin service focused on simplicity, low resource usage, and a clean web UI. It provides a small API and browser interface for creating, viewing, and managing text pastes with optional client-like protections such as password-based encryption.
Key Features
- Single-binary server with low memory footprint
- Rust axum backend with SQLite persistence
- Syntax highlighting for 170+ languages
- Optional paste encryption using password-based key derivation and authenticated encryption
- Expiration options, burn-after-reading, and deletion by anonymous paste owners
- Raw and formatted views, keyboard-driven UI, and QR code display for paste URLs
- Basic JSON API for creating, retrieving raw content, and deleting pastes
- Includes a CLI tool to list, purge expired, and delete entries in the database
Use Cases
- Sharing code snippets or logs inside a team or homelab
- Temporary dropbox for text with expiration or burn-after-reading
- Quick paste endpoint for scripts, editors, or terminal workflows via the JSON API
Limitations and Considerations
- No user authentication or admin UI; ownership is cookie-based
- Not designed to withstand all DoS vectors without external protections such as rate limiting
- No arbitrary file uploads; intended for text pastes
wastebin fits environments that want a simple pastebin with strong defaults, easy deployment (binary or container), and a small operational footprint. With proper fronting protections, it can also serve as a convenient paste endpoint for lightweight sharing workflows.
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