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sprunge

Command-line oriented minimalist pastebin

Pastebins & Snippets ★ 720 stars Easy setup MIT

sprunge is a minimalist, command-line oriented pastebin server designed for piping text directly from the terminal. It returns a short URL for any uploaded content with almost no configuration.

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Key features

  • Terminal pipe uploads
  • No database required
  • Short URL output
  • Tiny footprint

Strengths

  • Released under the MIT license
  • Easy to set up — beginner-friendly
  • Written in Python
  • Tiny footprint — runs in 64 MB RAM

Is sprunge secure?

OSV.dev has no published security advisories for sprunge'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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