Rustypaste is a minimal file upload/pastebin service.

$ echo "some text" > awesome.txt

$ curl -F "file=@awesome.txt" https://paste.site.com
https://paste.site.com/safe-toad.txt

$ curl https://paste.site.com/safe-toad.txt
some text

The public instance is available at https://rustypaste.shuttleapp.rs 🚀

Features

• File upload & URL shortening & upload from URL
  • supports basic HTTP authentication
  • random file names (optional)
    • pet name (e.g. capital-mosquito.txt)
    • alphanumeric string (e.g. yB84D2Dv.txt)
  • supports expiring links
    • auto-expiration of files (optional)
    • auto-deletion of expired files (optional)
  • supports one shot links (can only be viewed once)
  • guesses MIME types
    • supports overriding and blacklisting
    • supports forcing to download via ?download=true
  • no duplicate uploads (optional)
• Single binary
  • binary releases
• Simple configuration
  • supports hot reloading
• Easy to deploy
  • docker images
• No database
  • filesystem is used
• Self-hosted
  • centralization is bad!
• Written in Rust
  • blazingly fast!

Installation

From crates.io

cargo install rustypaste

Arch Linux

pacman -S rustypaste

Alpine Linux

rustypaste is available for Alpine Edge. It can be installed via apk after enabling the testing repository.

apk add rustypaste

Binary releases

See the available binaries on the releases page.

Build from source

git clone https://github.com/orhun/rustypaste.git
cd rustypaste/
cargo build --release

Feature flags

• shuttle: enable an entry point for deploying on Shuttle
• openssl: use distro OpenSSL (binary size is reduced ~20% in release mode)
• rustls: use rustls (enabled as default)

To enable a feature for build, pass --features flag to cargo build command.

For example, to reuse the OpenSSL present on a distro already:

cargo build --release --features openssl

Testing

Unit tests

cargo test -- --test-threads 1

Test Fixtures

./fixtures/test-fixtures.sh

Usage

The standalone command line tool (rpaste) is available here.

CLI

function rpaste() {
  curl -F "file=@$1" -H "Authorization: <auth_token>" "<server_address>"
}

* consider reading authorization headers from a file. (e.g. -H @rpaste_auth)

# upload a file
$ rpaste x.txt

# paste from stdin
$ rpaste -

Expiration

$ curl -F "file=@x.txt" -H "expire:10min" "<server_address>"

(supported units: ns, us, ms, sec, min, hours, days, weeks, months, years)

One shot

$ curl -F "oneshot=@x.txt" "<server_address>"

URL shortening

$ curl -F "url=https://example.com/some/long/url" "<server_address>"

Paste file from remote URL

$ curl -F "remote=https://example.com/file.png" "<server_address>"

Cleaning up expired files

Configure delete_expired_files to set an interval for deleting the expired files automatically.

On the other hand, following script can be used as cron for cleaning up the expired files manually:

#!/bin/env sh
now=$(date +%s)
find upload/ -maxdepth 2 -type f -iname "*.[0-9]*" |
while read -r filename; do
	[ "$(( ${filename##*.} / 1000 - "${now}" ))" -lt 0 ] && rm -v "${filename}"
done

Server

To start the server:

$ rustypaste

If the configuration file is not found in the current directory, specify it via CONFIG environment variable:

$ CONFIG="$HOME/.rustypaste.toml" rustypaste

To enable basic HTTP auth, set the AUTH_TOKEN environment variable (via .env):

$ echo "AUTH_TOKEN=$(openssl rand -base64 16)" > .env
$ rustypaste

See config.toml for configuration options.

Docker

Following command can be used to run a container which is built from the Dockerfile in this repository:

$ docker run --rm -d \
  -v "$(pwd)/upload/":/app/upload \
  -v "$(pwd)/config.toml":/app/config.toml \
  --env-file "$(pwd)/.env" \
  -e "RUST_LOG=debug" \
  -p 8000:8000 \
  --name rustypaste \
  orhunp/rustypaste

• uploaded files go into ./upload (on the host machine)
• set the AUTH_TOKEN via -e or --env-file to enable auth

You can build this image using docker build -t rustypaste . command.

If you want to run the image using docker compose, simply run docker-compose up -d. (see docker-compose.yml)

Nginx

Example server configuration with reverse proxy:

server {
    listen 80;
    location / {
        proxy_pass                         http://localhost:8000/;
        proxy_set_header Host              $host;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For   $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
        add_header X-XSS-Protection        "1; mode=block";
        add_header X-Frame-Options         "sameorigin";
        add_header X-Content-Type-Options  "nosniff";
    }
}

If you get a 413 Request Entity Too Large error during upload, set the max body size in nginx.conf:

http {
    # ...
    client_max_body_size 100M;
}

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome!

Consider submitting your ideas via issues first and check out the existing issues.

License

^{All code is licensed under The MIT License.}