Single user, home network, pastebin server with access both from browsers and the command line with help of netcat.
Mostly written during the afternoon of Christmas day 2023 while my children were busy with their new toys.
Features:
- Can handle text snippets with new lines
- Access from both the web and command line
- Text snippets are stored on disk (Usually:
~/.cache/gmelchett/pastry/pastes.gob) - No automatic clean-up of old text snippets
You need the go tool chain. I've used go version 1.19, I can imagine that it works with something
older but not anything older than 1.16 since embed is used and it is a new feature in 1.16.
Then clone the repo, and run:
go get && go build
All data will be embedded into the pastry binary. If you want to deploy pastry on some other
machine, you can statically built pastry with CGO_ENABLED=0 go build.
On a systemd you can put the provided pastry@.service file in /usr/lib/systemd/system/ and pastry in /usr/local/bin.
and run:
sudo systemctl enable pastry@$USER
sudo systemctl start pastry@$USER
pastry listens to three ports:
- 9180 - Web GUI
- 9181 - For adding new snippets
- 9182 - For reading old snippets
Terminal usage, best explained with examples:
# Push some text to pastry
$ echo "one apple" | nc localhost 9181
$ echo "two apples" | nc localhost 9181
$ echo "three apple" | nc localhost 9181
# Fetch the latest addition:
$ echo get |nc localhost 9182
three apple
# List everything - first column is the index, second relative date, and then the text snippet
$ echo list |nc localhost 9182
# 0 33 seconds ago one apple
# 1 28 seconds ago two apples
# 2 23 seconds ago three apple
# Fetch the snippet with index 2:
$ echo get 2 |nc localhost 9182
three apple
# Fetching snippets with negative index is also possible -1 is the latest, -2 the second latest
$ echo get -1 |nc localhost 9182
three apple
# Drop the latest
$ echo drop |nc localhost 9182
$ echo list |nc localhost 9182
# 0 57 seconds ago one apple
# 1 52 seconds ago two apples
# Add a new snippet:
$ echo "two bananas" | nc localhost 9181
# Search all snippets that contains "two" - The second column is the line number.
$ echo grep two | nc localhost 9182
# 1 1 1 minute ago two apples
# 2 1 15 seconds ago two bananas
# Sending a full file to pastry
$ cat pastry.go | nc localhost 9181
# and grep for utf8 in pastry. Two hits in entry "3" at line 24 and 71
$ echo grep utf8 | nc localhost 9182
# 3 24 14 seconds ago "unicode/utf8"
# 3 71 14 seconds ago if utf8.Valid(buf[:n]) {
I hope the web GUI is self-explaining :-)
I use nc (netcat) which is provided by netcat-traditional on Debian 12.
None, bad guys with access could fill your disk, waste CPU cycles, increase your electrical bill and scare your cat.
Don't put pastry directly on the internet.
As private as you make it. Anyone with access can read, corrupt and/or delete all text snippets. The data stored on disk is not encrypted.
- The CSS framework used https://picocss.com/ (included as zip)
- http://github.com/spectrumjade/zipfs to embed picocss as zip
- http://github.com/OpenPeeDeeP/xdg for cache directory.
The pastry icon was "created" by https://www.bing.com/images/create
The latest web fixes and updates are done with help from ChatGPT.
Maybe add some way to remove old snippets from the web? Expire date?
MIT