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Snippet Box

Self-hosted app for organizing your code snippets

Pastebins & Snippets ★ 1.1k stars Easy setup MIT

Snippet Box is a self-hosted application for organizing and searching your personal collection of code snippets. It offers syntax highlighting, tagging, and a clean interface for reusing saved code.

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Key features

  • Snippet organization
  • Syntax highlighting
  • Tag-based search
  • SQLite storage

Strengths

  • Released under the MIT license
  • Easy to set up — beginner-friendly
  • First-class Docker support for quick deployment
  • Active community (1.1k GitHub stars)

Is Snippet Box secure?

OSV.dev has no published security advisories for Snippet Box's repository. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

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