MicroBin

MicroBin is a super tiny, feature rich, configurable, self-contained and self-hosted paste bin web application. It is very easy to set up and use, and will only require a few megabytes of memory and disk storage. It takes only a couple minutes to set it up, why not give it a try now?

Note about this fork

I've forked MicroBin due to apparent neglect from the maintainer, and to fix various issues and annoyances to me personally.

TODOs:

• Proper database (seriously, json isn't a database)
• Configurable endpoints (so a url shortener isn't lengthened by /url/)
• Proper auth and permissions (so a single user can also use it and send links)
• Customizable keys (so you can make fixed pastas)
  • Customizable wordset and length for the names
• Non-env/args configurations

Features

• Is very small
• Entirely self-contained executable, MicroBin is a single file!
• Animal names instead of random numbers for pasta identifiers (64 animals)
• File uploads (eg. server.com/file/pig-dog-cat)
• Raw text serving (eg. server.com/raw/pig-dog-cat)
• URL shortening and redirection
• QR code support
• Very simple database (JSON + files) for portability, easy backups and integration
• Listing and manually removing pastas (/pastalist)
• Private and public, editable and final, automatically and never expiring pastas
• Syntax highlighting
• Automatic dark mode and custom styling support with very little CSS and only vanilla JS (see water.css)
• Most of the above can be toggled on and off!

What is a "pasta" anyway?

In MicroBin, a pasta can be:

• A text that you want to paste from one machine to another, eg. some code,
• A file that you want to share, eg. a video that is too large for Discord, a zip with a code project in it or an image,
• A URL redirect.

When is MicroBin useful?

You can use MicroBin:

• As a URL shortener/redirect service,
• To send long texts to other people,
• To send large files to other people,
• To serve content on the web, eg. configuration files for testing, images, or any other file content using the Raw functionality,
• To move files between your desktop and a server you access from the console,
• As a "postbox" service where people can upload their files or texts, but they cannot see or remove what others sent you - just disable the pastalist page
• To take notes! Simply create an editable pasta.

...and many other things, why not get creative?

MicroBin and MicroBin.eu are available under the BSD 3-Clause License.

© Dániel Szabó 2022