lemonyte/wastebin

Simple pastebin service on Deta.

Wastebin

Welcome to Wastebin, a simple, minimal pastebin service.

Note: this app will probably stop receiving updates for the foreseeable future. If I decide to pursue this project further, I will probably just start from scratch using another tech stack due to some technical limitations and difficulties in Python & Jinja2.

Demo

A public demo is available here.

You can view the source code of the app in the app itself, for example https://wastebin.deta.dev/doc/main.py.

Installation

Install your own instance of Wastebin on Deta Space by clicking the button below.

Why is it called Wastebin?

Because "w" was the only letter left that worked with "-astebin" and wasn't already used.

Planned features

• Passwords for documents
• Uploading folders or multiple files at once

Known issues

• Ephemeral documents are the source of many problems and edge cases
• Loading a document requires JavaScript, this was done to avoid making two requests to the server fetching the document

Privacy

When you install your own copy of Wastebin, all the data is stored in your own Deta Space. This means that you have full control over your data, and can delete it at any time.

License

MIT License

wastebin's Issues

API requires login on Deta since last update

Making API requests requires logging into my Deta Space account since the last update.
I need my app to be able to temporarily upload files, and I can't do that anymore.

Highlight pastes at view time instead of at save time

Currently, saved pastes get highlighted when they are saved, and the generated HTML is saved in the database as metadata. This was done to avoid going over the 10-second request timeout limit on the hosting provider, https://deta.sh, as well as speed up page load times for viewing pastes. This comes with the tradeoff that pastes can only be highlighted once, and cannot be re-highlighted using a different language (for example, by adding a file extension to the URL), and content fetched from external sources cannot be highlighted (this would be useful to fetch raw content from GitHub and highlight it). The ideal solution would be to somehow optimize paste highlighting, which uses the Pygments package.

Possible to create pastes without loging in?

I realised I can only create new pastes if I login through Deta, so I was wondering if an option to turn this off could be added so that anyone who opens my Wastebin can create their own pastes?