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**Rustypaste** is a minimal file upload/pastebin service.
```sh
$ echo "some text" > awesome.txt
$ curl -F "file=@awesome.txt" https://paste.site.com
https://paste.site.com/safe-toad.txt
$ curl https://paste.site.com/safe-toad.txt
some text
```
Table of Contents
* [Features](#features)
* [Installation](#installation)
* [From crates.io](#from-cratesio)
* [Arch Linux](#arch-linux)
* [Alpine Linux](#alpine-linux)
* [FreeBSD](#freebsd)
* [Binary releases](#binary-releases)
* [Build from source](#build-from-source)
* [Feature flags](#feature-flags)
* [Testing](#testing)
* [Unit tests](#unit-tests)
* [Test Fixtures](#test-fixtures)
* [Usage](#usage)
* [CLI](#cli)
* [Expiration](#expiration)
* [One shot files](#one-shot-files)
* [One shot URLs](#one-shot-urls)
* [Password-protected files](#password-protected-files)
* [URL shortening](#url-shortening)
* [Paste file from remote URL](#paste-file-from-remote-url)
* [Cleaning up expired files](#cleaning-up-expired-files)
* [Delete file from server](#delete-file-from-server)
* [Override the filename](#override-the-filename)
* [Server](#server)
* [Authentication](#authentication)
* [List endpoint](#list-endpoint)
* [HTML Form](#html-form)
* [Docker](#docker)
* [Nginx](#nginx)
* [Third Party Clients](#third-party-clients)
* [Contributing](#contributing)
* [License](#license)
## Features
- File upload & URL shortening & upload from URL
- supports basic HTTP authentication
- random file names (optional)
- pet name (e.g. `capital-mosquito.txt`)
- alphanumeric string (e.g. `yB84D2Dv.txt`)
- random suffix (e.g. `file.MRV5as.tar.gz`)
- supports expiring links
- auto-expiration of files (optional)
- auto-deletion of expired files (optional)
- supports one shot links/URLs (can only be viewed once)
- supports password-protected files
- auto-generated passwords
- Argon2id hashing
- guesses MIME types
- supports overriding and blacklisting
- supports forcing to download via `?download=true`
- no duplicate uploads (optional)
- listing/deleting files
- custom landing page
- Single binary
- [binary releases](https://github.com/orhun/rustypaste/releases)
- Simple configuration
- supports hot reloading
- Easy to deploy
- [docker images](https://hub.docker.com/r/orhunp/rustypaste)
- [appjail images](https://github.com/AppJail-makejails/rustypaste)
- No database
- filesystem is used
- Self-hosted
- _centralization is bad!_
- Written in Rust
- _blazingly fast!_
## Installation
Packaging status
[](https://repology.org/project/rustypaste/versions)
### From crates.io
```sh
cargo install rustypaste
```
### Arch Linux
```sh
pacman -S rustypaste
```
### Alpine Linux
`rustypaste` is available for [Alpine Edge](https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/packages?name=rustypaste&branch=edge). It can be installed via [apk](https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Alpine_Package_Keeper) after enabling the [community repository](https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Repositories).
```sh
apk add rustypaste
```
### FreeBSD
```sh
pkg install rustypaste
```
### Binary releases
See the available binaries on the [releases](https://github.com/orhun/rustypaste/releases/) page.
### Build from source
```sh
git clone https://github.com/orhun/rustypaste.git
cd rustypaste/
cargo build --release
```
#### Feature flags
- `openssl`: use distro OpenSSL (binary size is reduced ~20% in release mode)
- `rustls`: use [rustls](https://github.com/rustls/rustls) (enabled as default)
To enable a feature for build, pass `--features` flag to `cargo build` command.
For example, to reuse the OpenSSL present on a distro already:
```sh
cargo build --release --no-default-features --features openssl
```
#### Testing
##### Unit tests
```sh
cargo test -- --test-threads 1
```
##### Test Fixtures
```sh
./fixtures/test-fixtures.sh
```
## Usage
The standalone command line tool (`rpaste`) is available [here](https://github.com/orhun/rustypaste-cli).
### CLI
```sh
function rpaste() {
curl -F "file=@$1" -H "Authorization: " ""
}
```
**\*** consider reading authorization headers from a file. (e.g. `-H @rpaste_auth`)
```sh
# upload a file
$ rpaste x.txt
# paste from stdin
$ rpaste -
```
#### Expiration
```sh
$ curl -F "file=@x.txt" -H "expire:10min" ""
```
supported units:
- `nsec`, `ns`
- `usec`, `us`
- `msec`, `ms`
- `seconds`, `second`, `sec`, `s`
- `minutes`, `minute`, `min`, `m`
- `hours`, `hour`, `hr`, `h`
- `days`, `day`, `d`
- `weeks`, `week`, `w`
- `months`, `month`, `M`
- `years`, `year`, `y`
#### One shot files
```sh
$ curl -F "oneshot=@x.txt" ""
```
#### One shot URLs
```sh
$ curl -F "oneshot_url=https://example.com" ""
```
#### Password-protected files
Upload a file with auto-generated password:
```sh
$ curl -F "protected=@secret.txt" ""
https://paste.site.com/secret.txt
Password: aBcD1234EfGh5678IjKl9012
```
Download with Bearer token:
```sh
$ curl -H "Authorization: Bearer aBcD1234EfGh5678IjKl9012" https://paste.site.com/secret.txt
```
Or with Basic Auth:
```sh
$ curl -u "user:aBcD1234EfGh5678IjKl9012" https://paste.site.com/secret.txt
```
**Note**: Protected files cannot be combined with other paste types (oneshot, URL). The password is permanently tied to the file and cannot be changed. If the password is lost, the file becomes inaccessible. Password files are deleted automatically when the main file is deleted or expires.
#### URL shortening
```sh
$ curl -F "url=https://example.com/some/long/url" ""
```
#### Paste file from remote URL
```sh
$ curl -F "remote=https://example.com/file.png" ""
```
#### Cleaning up expired files
Configure `[paste].delete_expired_files` to set an interval for deleting the expired files automatically.
On the other hand, following script can be used as [cron](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron) for cleaning up the expired files manually:
```sh
#!/bin/env sh
now=$(date +%s)
find upload/ -maxdepth 2 -type f -iname "*.[0-9]*" |
while read -r filename; do
[ "$(( ${filename##*.} / 1000 - "${now}" ))" -lt 0 ] && rm -v "${filename}"
done
```
#### Delete file from server
Set `delete_tokens` array in [config.toml](./config.toml) to activate the [`DELETE`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Methods/DELETE) endpoint and secure it with one (or more) auth token(s).
```sh
$ curl -H "Authorization: " -X DELETE "/file.txt"
```
> The `DELETE` endpoint will not be exposed and will return `404` error if `delete_tokens` are not set.
#### Override the filename
When using the `random_url` config option, or when pasting a file [from remote URL](#paste-file-from-remote-url), rustypaste automatically selects a filename.
This can be overridden by sending a header called `filename`:
```sh
curl -F "file=@x.txt" -H "filename: " ""
curl -F "remote=https://example.com/file.png" -H "filename: " ""
```
### Server
To start the server:
```sh
$ rustypaste
```
If the configuration file is not found in the current directory, specify it via `CONFIG` environment variable:
```sh
$ CONFIG="$HOME/.rustypaste.toml" rustypaste
```
#### Authentication
To enable basic HTTP auth, set the `AUTH_TOKEN` environment variable (via `.env`):
```sh
$ echo "AUTH_TOKEN=$(openssl rand -base64 16)" > .env
$ rustypaste
```
There are 2 options for setting multiple auth tokens:
- Via the array field `[server].auth_tokens` in your `config.toml`.
- Or by writing a newline separated list to a file and passing its path to rustypaste via `AUTH_TOKENS_FILE` and `DELETE_TOKENS_FILE` respectively.
> If neither `AUTH_TOKEN`, `AUTH_TOKENS_FILE` nor `[server].auth_tokens` are set, the server will not require any authentication.
>
> Exception is the `DELETE` endpoint, which requires at least one token to be set. See [deleting files from server](#delete-file-from-server) for more information.
See [config.toml](./config.toml) for configuration options.
#### MIME handling
rustypaste determines a file's MIME type from its extension (with optional overrides) and serves
text-like types as `text/plain; charset=utf-8` to avoid script execution.
- `[paste].mime_override` lets you override MIME types by filename regex.
- `[paste].mime_blacklist` blocks uploads of specific MIME types.
- `[paste].text_mime_overrides` forces additional detected/guessed MIME types to be rendered as plaintext (unlike `mime_override` which matches by filename regex, this matches the content's actual MIME type).
#### List endpoint
Set `expose_list` to true in [config.toml](./config.toml) to be able to retrieve a JSON formatted list of files in your uploads directory. This will not include oneshot files, oneshot URLs, or URLs.
```sh
$ curl "http:///list"
[{"file_name":"accepted-cicada.txt","file_size":241,"expires_at_utc":null}]
```
This route will require an `AUTH_TOKEN` if one is set.
#### HTML Form
It is possible to use an HTML form for uploading files. To do so, you need to update two fields in your `config.toml`:
- Set the `[landing_page].content_type` to `text/html; charset=utf-8`.
- Update the `[landing_page].text` field with your HTML form or point `[landing_page].file` to your html file.
For an example, see [examples/html_form.toml](./examples/html_form.toml)
#### Docker
Following command can be used to run a container which is built from the [Dockerfile](./Dockerfile) in this repository:
```sh
$ docker run --rm -d \
-v "$(pwd)/upload/":/app/upload \
-v "$(pwd)/config.toml":/app/config.toml \
--env-file "$(pwd)/.env" \
-e "RUST_LOG=debug" \
-p 8000:8000 \
--name rustypaste \
orhunp/rustypaste
```
- uploaded files go into `./upload` (on the host machine)
- set the `AUTH_TOKEN` via `-e` or `--env-file` to enable auth
You can build this image using `docker build -t rustypaste .` command.
If you want to run the image using [docker compose](https://docs.docker.com/compose/), simply run `docker-compose up -d`. (see [docker-compose.yml](./docker-compose.yml))
#### Nginx
Example server configuration with reverse proxy:
```nginx
server {
listen 80;
location / {
proxy_pass http://localhost:8000/;
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
add_header X-XSS-Protection "1; mode=block";
add_header X-Frame-Options "sameorigin";
add_header X-Content-Type-Options "nosniff";
}
}
```
If you get a `413 Request Entity Too Large` error during upload, set the max body size in `nginx.conf`:
```nginx
http {
# ...
client_max_body_size 100M;
}
```
### Third Party Clients
- [dbohdan/ferripaste](https://github.com/dbohdan/ferripaste) - Alternative rustypaste CLI client
- [rukh-debug/rustypaste-gui.sh](https://gist.github.com/rukh-debug/cc42900f86e39cacef6f7a6ba77ebf58) - Linux's Minimal GUI client powered by zenity
- [ShareX](https://github.com/ShareX/ShareX) - ShareX as handy GUI client for rustypaste ([.sxcu profile example](https://gist.github.com/Null-Kelvin/c726a080762781a603cbc1b713d36cc6))
- [Silvenga/rustypaste-ui](https://github.com/Silvenga/rustypaste-ui) - A modern, single file, web UI to interact with the rustypaste server.
### Contributing
Pull requests are welcome!
Consider submitting your ideas via [issues](https://github.com/orhun/rustypaste/issues/new) first and check out the [existing issues](https://github.com/orhun/rustypaste/issues).
#### License
All code is licensed under The MIT License.