Paf'Pastèque

About

Pasteque is a free and open source (MIT License) Pastebin like application written in Python/Django.

An instance can be found at: p.afpy.org. The AFPy instance is installed by ansible, the role is available here: https://git.afpy.org/AFPy/infra/src/branch/main/roles/pasteque.

Features

• Support any database supported by Django (Sqlite3, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, ...)
• Syntax highlighting for a bunch of languages using Pygments.
• Rendering of Markdown as HTML.
• Easy paste from command line or any programming language.

Using

Where's the homepage?

This pastebin has no homepage: its homepage is a paste like any other. So to create one for your instance, just paste something to it, like:

$ curl localhost:8000 -XPUT -H "Authorization: Secret supersecret" --data-binary @using.fr.md

The Authorization allows you to update the paste by uploading it again.

I want a robots.txt

Just past it:

$ printf "User-agent: *\nDisallow: /\n" | curl localhost:8000/robots.txt -XPUT -H "Authorization: Secret supersecret" --data-binary @-

It'll work as .txt files are not pretty printed.

Where's the admin?

The admin is hosted as /::/admin/. As almost any URL can be used by pastes, we "burry" the admin here.

And no paste can start with ::.

What's this Authorization header?

By providing a secret in the Authorization header, one can edit its pasts by PUTting to it, and list all its pastes by querying:

curl localhost:8000/::/list/ -H "Authorization: Secret supersecret"

Running Pasteque

In a venv, install the requirements:

pip install -r requirements.txt

In a local_settings.py file, at the root of the repo:

DISPLAY_NAME = 'YourCompany-Paste'
COMPRESS_ENABLED = True
DEBUG = False
SECRET_KEY = 'fill_a_secret_key_here'
ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['localhost', '127.0.0.1', 'paste.henriet.eu']

Create the database:

./manage.py migrate

If you're in production collect static files:

./manage.py collectstatic

Run it:

./manage.py runserver