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Opengist

Opengist

Opengist is a self-hosted pastebin powered by Git. All snippets are stored in a Git repository and can be read and/or modified using standard Git commands, or with the web interface. It is similiar to GitHub Gist, but open-source and could be self-hosted.

Written in Go, Opengist aims to be fast and easy to deploy.

Features

  • Create public, unlisted or private snippets
  • Init / Clone / Pull / Push snippets via Git over HTTP or SSH
  • Syntax highlighting ; markdown & CSV support
  • Search code in snippets ; browse users snippets, likes and forks
  • Embed snippets in other websites
  • Revisions history
  • Like / Fork snippets
  • Editor with indentation mode & size ; drag and drop files
  • Download raw files or as a ZIP archive
  • Retrieve snippet data/metadata via a JSON API
  • OAuth2 login with GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, and OpenID Connect
  • Avatars via Gravatar or OAuth2 providers
  • Light/Dark mode
  • Responsive UI
  • Enable or disable signups
  • Restrict or unrestrict snippets visibility to anonymous users
  • Admin panel :
    • delete users/gists;
    • clean database/filesystem by syncing gists
    • run git gc for all repositories
  • SQLite database
  • Logging
  • Docker support

System requirements

Git is obviously required to run Opengist, as it's the main feature of the app. Version 2.28 or later is recommended as the app has not been tested with older Git versions and some features would not work.

OpenSSH suite if you wish to use Git over SSH.

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