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

Features

• File upload & URL shortening
  • supports basic HTTP authentication
  • random file names (optional)
    • pet name (e.g. capital-mosquito.txt)
    • alphanumeric string (e.g. yB84D2Dv.txt)
  • guesses MIME types
• Single binary
  • binary releases
• Easy to deploy
  • docker images
• No database
  • filesystem is used
• Self-hosted
  • centralization is bad!
• Written in Rust
  • blazingly fast!

Usage

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 -

URL Shortening

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

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 "$(pwd)/upload/":/app/upload \
  --env-file "$(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;
}

Roadmap

• Support "disappearing" files
• Support setting an expiry date for uploads
• Write a CLI tool in Rust

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome!

Consider submitting your ideas via issues first. Also, see the roadmap and/or run the following command to see what is needed to be done:

$ grep -nr "TODO:" src/

License

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