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Self-hosted pastebin powered by Git, open-source alternative to Github Gist.

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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.

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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
  • Download raw files or as a ZIP archive
  • OAuth2 login with GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, and OpenID Connect
  • Restrict or unrestrict snippets visibility to anonymous users
  • Docker support
  • More...

Quick start

With Docker

Docker images are available for each release :

docker pull ghcr.io/thomiceli/opengist:1.7

It can be used in a docker-compose.yml file :

  1. Create a docker-compose.yml file with the following content
  2. Run docker compose up -d
  3. Opengist is now running on port 6157, you can browse http://localhost:6157
version: "3"

services:
  opengist:
    image: ghcr.io/thomiceli/opengist:1.7
    container_name: opengist
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
      - "6157:6157" # HTTP port
      - "2222:2222" # SSH port, can be removed if you don't use SSH
    volumes:
      - "$HOME/.opengist:/opengist"

You can define which user/group should run the container and own the files by setting the UID and GID environment variables :

services:
  opengist:
    # ...
    environment:
      UID: 1001
      GID: 1001

Via binary

Download the archive for your system from the release page here, and extract it.

# example for linux amd64
wget https://github.com/thomiceli/opengist/releases/download/v1.7.1/opengist1.7.1-linux-amd64.tar.gz

tar xzvf opengist1.7.1-linux-amd64.tar.gz
cd opengist
chmod +x opengist
./opengist # with or without `--config config.yml`

Opengist is now running on port 6157, you can browse http://localhost:6157

From source

Requirements: Git (2.28+), Go (1.21+), Node.js (16+), Make (optional, but easier)

git clone https://github.com/thomiceli/opengist
cd opengist
make
./opengist

Opengist is now running on port 6157, you can browse http://localhost:6157


To create and run a development environment, see run-development.md.

Documentation

The documentation is available in /docs directory.

License

Opengist is licensed under the AGPL-3.0 license.