wapb - Yep, another pastebin. I hate this. There are so many clones, it's stupid.
At least it's a small utility, so it's rebuilding a wheel instead of an entire car.
I primarily use this as a paste-able handoff utility from phone to computer. I no longer want to email myself links. Paste from phone, fetch from computer. Without an app (so, browser-accessible from the phone). I looked at a solid list of clones, but found that the intersection of features I needed was not met by any one tool. Those features being:
- Single Binary distributable, without runtime requirements (goodbye python, ruby, php)
- Persistent storage
- Ability to set self-destroy timers
- Web UI
- Listing / discovery
Close Contenders
- mkaczanowski/pastebin meets a lot of this, but is missing file upload, and listing entries.
- raftario/filite also meets much of this, but without timers. It's also going through a rewrite by it's author at time of writing.
- prologic/pastebin uses entirely in-memory caching for storage. Reboot will lose it all
Nice-to-have features, but not mission-critical
- File upload
- API
- syntax highlighting
NON Targeted features
This is intended to be on a local network deployment, in a semi-trusted environment. So some features are out-of-scope:
- Encryption of contents
- Login / Authorization
Now that the motivation section is out of the way, here's what is left of the product:
Single binary, web assets bundled inside. Has a web interface and an open HTTP API. Storage is configurable. Point it to a directory path, and a persistent store will be used there. Or pass the flag with no argument (empty string) for an in-memory data store. Since that option just came free with the DB I used.