- added new pasta type URL and automatic redirection endpoint

- added water.css styling
- added CL argument to set port
- added raw URL to pasta list
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![Screenshot](git/index.png)
MicroBin is a super tiny and simple self hosted pastebin app written in Rust. The executable is around 6MB and it uses 2MB memory (plus your pastas).
MicroBin is a super tiny and simple self hosted pastebin app written in Rust. The executable is only a few megabytes and uses very little memory (plus your pastas).
### Installation
Simply clone the repository, build it with `cargo build --release` and run the `microbin` executable in the created `target/release/` directory. It will start on port 8080.
Simply clone the repository, build it with `cargo build --release` and run the `microbin` executable in the created `target/release/` directory. It will start on port 8080 but you can change this with `-p` or `--port` arguments.
To install it as a service on your Linux machine, create a file called `/etc/systemd/system/microbin.service`, paste this into it with the value of `ExecStart` replaced with the actual path to microbin on your machine.
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Then start the service with `systemctl start microbin` and enable it on boot with `systemctl enable microbin`.
### Features
- No CSS or JS, super lightweight and simple
- Very little CSS and no JS, super lightweight and simple (see [water.css](https://github.com/kognise/water.css))
- Animal names instead of random numbers for pasta identifiers
- Automatically expiring pastas
- Never expiring pastas
- Listing and manually removing pastas
- URL shortening and redirection
### Needed improvements
- Persisting pastas on disk (currently they are lost on restart)
- Removing pasta after N reads
- File uploads
- URL shortening
- ~~URL shortening~~ (added on 23 April 2022)