Haste

Haste is an open-source pastebin software written in node.js, which is easily installable in any network. It can be backed by either redis or filesystem, and has a very easy adapter interface for other stores. A publicly available version can be found at paste.xtrafrancyz.net

Major design objectives:

• Be really pretty
• Be really simple
• Be easy to set up and use

Haste works really well with a little utility called haste-client, allowing you to do things like:

cat something | haste

which will output a URL to share containing the contents of cat something's STDOUT. Check the README there for more details and usages.

Tested Browsers

• Firefox 8
• Chrome 17
• Safari 5.3

Installation

1. Download the package, and expand it
2. Explore the settings inside of config.js, but the defaults should be good
3. npm install
4. npm start (you may specify an optional <config-path> as well)

Settings

• host - the host the server runs on (default localhost)
• port - the port the server runs on (default 7777)
• keyLength - the length of the keys to user (default 10)
• maxLength - maximum length of a paste (default 400000)
• staticMaxAge - max age for static assets (86400)
• recompressStaticAssets - whether or not to compile static js assets (true)
• documents - static documents to serve (ex: https://paste.xtrafrancyz.net/about.md) in addition to static assets. These will never expire.
• storage - storage options (see below)
• logging - logging preferences
• keyGenerator - key generator options (see below)
• rateLimits - settings for rate limiting (see below)

Rate Limiting

When present, the rateLimits option enables built-in rate limiting courtesy of connect-ratelimit. Any of the options supported by that library can be used and set in config.js.

See the README for connect-ratelimit for more information!

Key Generation

Phonetic

Attempts to generate phonetic keys, similar to pwgen

{
  "type": "phonetic"
}

Random

Generates a random key

{
  "type": "random",
  "keyspace": "abcdef"
}

The optional keySpace argument is a string of acceptable characters for the key.

Storage

File

To use file storage (the default) change the storage section in config.js to something like:

{
  "path": "./data",
  "type": "file"
}

where path represents where you want the files stored.

Amazon S3

To use Amazon S3 as a storage system, you must install the aws-sdk package via npm:

npm install aws-sdk

Once you've done that, your config section should look like this:

{
  "type": "amazon-s3",
  "bucket": "your-bucket-name",
  "region": "us-east-1"
}

Authentication is handled automatically by the client. Check Amazon's documentation for more information. You will need to grant your role these permissions to your bucket:

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Action": [
                "s3:GetObject",
                "s3:PutObject"
            ],
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::your-bucket-name-goes-here/*"
        }
    ]
}

Docker

Build image

docker build --tag haste-server .

Run container

For this example we will run haste-server, and connect it to a redis server

docker run --name haste-server-container --volume=./data:/data/storage -p 7777:7777 haste-server

Use docker-compose example

There is an example docker-compose.yml which runs haste-server together with memcached

docker-compose up

Configuration

The docker image is configured using environmental variables as you can see in the example above.

Here is a list of all the environment variables

Storage

Name	Default value	Description
STORAGE_TYPE	file	Type of storage . Accepted values: "amazon-s3", and "file"
STORAGE_EXPIRE_SECONDS	2592000	Number of seconds to expire keys in. Applicable for types. Redis, postgres, memcached. expire option to the
STORAGE_AWS_BUCKET		Applicable for amazon-s3. This is the name of the S3 bucket
STORAGE_AWS_REGION		Applicable for amazon-s3. The region in which the bucket is located
STORAGE_FILEPATH		Path to file to save data to. Applicable for type file

Logging

Name	Default value	Description
LOGGING_LEVEL	verbose
LOGGING_TYPE=	Console
LOGGING_COLORIZE=	true

Basics

Name	Default value	Description
HOST	0.0.0.0	The hostname which the server answers on
PORT	7777	The port on which the server is running
KEY_LENGTH	10	the length of the keys to user
MAX_LENGTH	400000	maximum length of a paste
STATIC_MAX_AGE	86400	max age for static assets
RECOMPRESS_STATIC_ASSETS	true	whether or not to compile static js assets
KEYGENERATOR_TYPE	phonetic	Type of key generator. Acceptable values: "phonetic", or "random"
KEYGENERATOR_KEYSPACE		keySpace argument is a string of acceptable characters
DOCUMENTS	about=./about.md	Comma separated list of static documents to serve. ex: \n about=./about.md,home=./home.md

Rate limits

Name	Default value	Description
RATELIMITS_NORMAL_TOTAL_REQUESTS	500	By default anyone uncategorized will be subject to 500 requests in the defined timespan.
RATELIMITS_NORMAL_EVERY_MILLISECONDS	60000	The timespan to allow the total requests for uncategorized users
RATELIMITS_WHITELIST_TOTAL_REQUESTS		By default client names in the whitelist will not have their requests limited.
RATELIMITS_WHITELIST_EVERY_SECONDS		By default client names in the whitelist will not have their requests limited.
RATELIMITS_WHITELIST	example1.whitelist,example2.whitelist	Comma separated list of the clients which are in the whitelist pool
RATELIMITS_BLACKLIST_TOTAL_REQUESTS		By default client names in the blacklist will be subject to 0 requests per hours.
RATELIMITS_BLACKLIST_EVERY_SECONDS		By default client names in the blacklist will be subject to 0 requests per hours
RATELIMITS_BLACKLIST	example1.blacklist,example2.blacklist	Comma separated list of the clients which are in the blacklistpool.

Author

xtrafrancyz xtrafrancyz@gmail.com

Original Code by John Crepezzi john.crepezzi@gmail.com

Key Design by Brian Dawson bridawson@gmail.com

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright © 2011-2020 John Crepezzi Copyright © 2020-2025 xtrafrancyz

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the ‘Software’), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ‘AS IS’, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE

Other components:

• jQuery: MIT/GPL license
• highlight.js: Copyright © 2006, Ivan Sagalaev