jackzmc / pastelite

A fast, simple, and lightweight tool for creating and viewing text content

PasteLite

Since hastebin now seems to require a developer token, I needed a new tool to paste content from my projects that my users can use without registration. After a lot of researching for alternatives that were light, that didn't use formdata and instead used the HTTP body for paste contents, I finally decided to make my own.

Written in typescript and using Fastify & Handlebars, PasteLite is a fast, simple, and lightweight tool to just allow without registration users to paste content and retrieve it simply.

Pastes are stored using sqlite into a pastes.db file

Routes

• POST /paste - Create a new paste
  • Query Parameters:
    • expires - The time in seconds from creation for to expire, 0 if allowed to never expire
    • textOnly - Returns all information in plain text, per line to make it easier to parse without a JSON library
  • Returns:
    • JSON (default): { name, url, expires, type, deleteToken }
    • Text (?textOnly): name\ndeleteToken\nurl
• GET /:name - Returns HTML of a paste with syntax highlighting
  • Query Parameters:
    • theme - Can be set to 'light' to use a light theme
• GET /:name/raw - Returns text/plain of the paste's content
• GET /:name/json - Returns JSON of the paste
  • Returns:
    • { name, content, expires, type }
    • • GET /:name/json - Returns JSON of the paste
• DELETE /:name/:deleteToken - Deletes a paste with the given delete token (given on creation)
  • Returns:
    • 204 on success
    • 401 on incorrect/missing token
    • 404 on unknown paste

Config

All the settings you want to change can be configured through environmental variables:

WEB_PORT = The port the server to run on
PASTE_DEFAULT_EXPIRES - The default amount of seconds a paste will expire, default is 1 day
PASTE_MAX_EXPIRES - If set, will put maximum amount of seconds that a paste can expire 
PASTE_ALLOWED_MIMES - The mime types that are allowed, by default is any text/*
PASTE_ID_ALPHABET - The characters to use for generating ids, default is '0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'
PASTE_ID_LENGTH - The number of characters to generate for an id, default is 12
PASTE_URL_PREFIX - If set, creating a paste will return 'url' with this being prefixed with paste name