MicroBin

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 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.

[Unit]
Description=MicroBin
After=network.target
[Service]
Type=simple
Restart=always
ExecStart=/home/pi/microbin/target/release/microbin
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Then start the service with systemctl start microbin and enable it on boot with systemctl enable microbin.

Features

• Very little CSS and no JS, super lightweight and simple (see 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 (added on 23 April 2022)