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Gunwant Jain a11321c251 readme: major overhaul
Signed-off-by: Gunwant Jain <mail@wantguns.dev>
2022-01-19 02:11:23 +05:30

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# Bin
A minimal pastebin which also accepts binary files like Images, PDFs and ships
multiple clients.
It does not require you to host a SQL server and everything is self-contained in
a statically linked binary (the docker image runs on scratch !), which makes it
extremely easy to deploy.
Try it out on: https://bin.wantguns.dev
## Clients
### Web
You can paste
- Normal Text
- Paste Images from clipboard
- Files by drag and drop
### CLI
#### Installation
Get the client from [this repository](contrib/cli/client) or from my deployed paste:
```bash
curl -o pst https://bin.wantguns.dev/client
chmod +x pst
```
or manually copy the following at a file in your path.
```bash
#!/bin/bash
# Change the url accordingly
URL="https://bin.wantguns.dev"
FILEPATH="$1"
FILENAME=$(basename -- "$FILEPATH")
EXTENSION="${FILENAME##*.}"
RESPONSE=$(curl --data-binary @${FILEPATH:-/dev/stdin} --url $URL)
PASTELINK="$URL$RESPONSE"
[ -z "$EXTENSION" ] && \
echo "$PASTELINK" || \
echo "$PASTELINK.$EXTENSION"
```
#### Usage
It just works.
```bash
$ pst somefile.txt
$ cat someimage.png | pst
```
### (Neo)Vim
#### Installation
1. Install the CLI client
2. Append this to your init.vim / vimrc
```vim
nnoremap <leader>p :!pst %<CR>
```
#### Usage
Use `<leader> + p` paste.
## Server Deployment
Currently, builds for the following target triples are shipped:
- x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (amd64)
- aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu (arm64)
The builds shipped are statically linked, so you don't even need a libc to run the binary !
### Docker Compose
```yaml
version: '3.3'
services:
pastebin:
image: wantguns/bin
container_name: pastebin
ports:
- 127.0.0.1:6162:6162
environment:
- BIN_PORT=6162
- BIN_LIMITS={form="16 MiB"}
volumes:
- ./upload:/upload # upload folder will have your pastes
```
### Docker
```bash
$ docker run -p 6162:6162 wantguns/bin
```
### Manual
- Grab a copy of the binary from GH releases
OR
- Build on your own:
```bash
# A statically linked build
$ cargo build --release
```
- Execute the binary as is, no extra shenanigans needed:
```bash
$ ./bin
```
#### Usage
```txt
USAGE:
bin [OPTIONS]
OPTIONS:
-a, --address <ADDRESS>
Address on which the webserver runs [default: 0.0.0.0]
-b, --binary-upload-limit <BINARY_UPLOAD_LIMIT>
Binary uploads file size limit (in MiB) [default: 100]
-h, --help
Print help information
-p, --port <PORT>
Port on which the webserver runs [default: 6162]
-u, --upload <UPLOAD>
Path to the uploads folder [default: ./upload]
-V, --version
Print version information
```
#### Configuration
This pastebin utilizes a custom configuration provider from Rocket. Apart from the essential arguments, you can also use environment variables, which have the highest preference in order.
Everything from the [official Rocket doc](https://rocket.rs/v0.5-rc/guide/configuration/#overview) is supported, just that you have to prefix the env variable with "BIN_":
```txt
BIN_PORT=6163
BIN_ADDRESS=0.0.0.0
BIN_LIMITS={form="16 MiB"}
BIN_WORKERS=8
BIN_IDENT=false
...
```
## API
`GET /<id>`
Get raw pastes
`GET /p/<id>`
Get highlighted pastes
`GET /p/<id>.<ext> `
Get syntax highlighted pastes.
E.g. https://bin.wantguns.dev/p/foobaz.cpp should return a C++ syntax
highlighted paste
`POST /`
Post binary data
## Design Decisions
This pastebin:
- does not use a database. It lacks non-essential features like password-protection / automatic deletion as a result of which, it can do completely fine with flat filesystems. As an upside (opinionated), it makes deploying it easier.
- uses server sided highlighting, which ensures that everything stays light and snappy at the server side.
- uses very minimal frontend because a pastebin does not need it. It focuses (or atleast tries to) on getting things done in minimum amount of clicks.