/yank.one

Cross-device yank text and paste it one with CURL/HTTP.

Primary LanguageTypeScript

Yank it one!

Free service to quickly yank (copy) any content between internet connected device. Yanked content will be vanished immediately after someone GET it!

The design goal is to help you typing less on terminal. It's best for working with different physical devices without copy/paste functions available.

Features & Roadmap

Features

  • Yank any text content and cache on Redis cloud.
  • Using cURL as cross-platform CLI tool.
  • Support AES-128 text encryption with secret password.
  • Clean up cached content after a key is consumed.

Roadmap

  • Completely serverless
  • Gist integration
  • Interactive CLI documentation
    • CLI docs when GET at /
    • CLI docs when POST at /<key>
  • Add optional parameter to prevent the key expiration.
  • Support Linux/MacOS/Windows native CLI.
  • Support binary stream: you will able to save any binary file.
  • Support Deno permanent script publishing.
  • Persistent using IPFS decentralized network.
    • Save persistent IPFS Qm key into SQL map with shorten URL.

Quick start

Yanking:

Yank a plain text file

curl https://yank.one/set/<key>/<secret> --data-raw "Hello World"

cat doc.txt | curl -d @- https://yank.one/set/<key>/<secret>

Yank a binary file

hostA# base64 -w 0 ./myphoto.jpg | curl -d @- https://yank.one/set/myphoto
hostB# curl -s https://yank.one/myphoto | base64 --decode > myphoto.jpg

Pasting:

Short-hand:

curl https://yank.one/<key>/<secret>

Full:

curl https://yank.one/get/<key>/<secret>
  • key: your very own key
  • secret: encrypt text while yanking

Different with other services:

txt.do

Pros:

  • Have input GUI (soon).

Cons:

  • Only friendly with non-technical user.
  • Need to remember 5 random key.
  • Need to set the timeout manually.

transfer.sh

Pros:

  • File upload 10GB.
  • Files stored for 14 days.
  • Lots of usage.

Cons:

  • Need to copy the key into your mind.
  • 10 characters in domain.

License

Nam Pham (c) MIT