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paste

Minimalist self-hosted pastebin written in Go

Pastebins & Snippets ★ 575 stars Easy setup MIT

paste is a minimalist, self-hosted pastebin service written in Go that stores text snippets and returns short URLs. It is designed to be tiny, dependency-free, and easy to run from a single binary.

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Key features

  • Single static binary
  • Filesystem-based storage
  • Short URL generation
  • Simple HTTP API

Pros & cons

Strengths

  • Extremely lightweight
  • Trivial to deploy

Trade-offs

  • Very minimal feature set
  • No syntax highlighting UI

Is paste secure?

OSV.dev has no published security advisories for paste'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.

paste replaces

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   :alt: SelfHostIndex health score for paste
   :target: https://selfhostindex.com/app/topaz-paste/

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