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What is NoPaste?

NoPaste is an open-source website similar to Pastebin where you can store any piece of code, and generate links for easy sharing

However, what makes NoPaste special is that it works with no database, and no back-end code. Instead, the data is compressed and stored entirely in the link that you share, nowhere else!

[!NOTE]
Because all .ml domains have been taken down on July 17th, 2023, NoPaste has moved from nopaste.ml to nopaste.boris.sh

You may still be able to visit nopaste.ml if your visited it before with the same browser (thanks to the offline usage feature), but it will not work for new visitors.

Of course, all of your old links will continue to work if you just replace nopaste.ml with nopaste.boris.sh!

Sorry for the disturbance, and thanks for your understanding!

Because of this design:

Note: This project is a copy of Topaz's paste service, with a reworked design and a few additional features (syntax highlighting, line numbers, offline usage, embedding...)

How it works

When you click on "Generate Link", NoPaste compresses the whole text using the LZMA algorithm, encodes it in Base64, and puts it in the optional URL fragment, after the first # symbol: nopaste.boris.sh/#<your data goes here>

When you open a link, NoPaste reads, decodes, and decompresses whatever is after the #, and displays the result in the editor.

This process is done entirely in your browser, and the web server hosting NoPaste never has access to the fragment

For example, this is the CSS code used by NoPaste

Other features

Embedded NoPaste snippets

You can include NoPaste code snippets into your own website by clicking the Embed button and using the generated HTML code.

Here is an example of generated code and how it looks (click on the screenshot to see the interactive version)

<iframe
    width="100%"
    height="243"
    frameborder="0"
    src="https://nopaste.boris.sh/?l=py#XQAAAQAbAQAAAAAAAAA0m0pnuFI8c+qagMoNTEcTIfyUWbZjtjmBYcmJSzoNwS5iVMWHzvowv3IPM0vOG5cjrtDRTSVP/0biTIrrahfmbkuMQBBeSiSGpaJOqYJiKmUDYn2Gp1RtWE6gm8fLHMB4eyZ3+rEbUQwWyMcmWqvZ7m96RUeFyZdYbE85JGvhghqF8cyPB0ZjV0OQWsDxn5O5ysMrIcL+pKPk89EtLjAHhA1LZL9F3hzAtTx7I+GlyrxhhXGxAN//CvtaAA=="
></iframe>

iframe

Feel free to edit the height and width attributes, so they suit your needs

Offline usage

When you visit NoPaste for the first time, its code is saved in your browser cache. After that, every NoPaste link you open will load really quick, even if your internet connection is slow.

What if you have no internet connexion at all? No problem, NoPaste will still work perfectly!

Editor features

Maximum sizes for links

NoPaste is great for sharing code snippets on various platforms.

These are the maximum link lengths on some apps and browsers.

AppMax length
Reddit10,000
Twitter4,088
Slack4,000
QR Code2,610
Bitly2,048
TinyURL32,000
BrowserMax lengthNotes
Google Chrome(win) 32,779 (mac) 10,000Will not display, but larger links work
Firefox>64,000
Microsoft IE 114,043Will not show more than 2,083
Microsoft Edge2,083Anything over 2083 will fail
Android8,192
SafariLots

Generate NoPaste links

NoPaste links can be created easily from your system's command line:

# Linux
echo -n 'Hello World' | lzma | base64 -w0 | xargs -0 printf "https://nopaste.boris.sh/#%s\n"

# Mac
echo -n 'Hello World' | lzma | base64 | xargs -0 printf "https://nopaste.boris.sh/#%s\n"

# Windows / WSL / Linux
echo -n 'Hello World' | xz --format=lzma | base64 -w0 | printf "https://nopaste.boris.sh/#%s\n" "$(cat -)"

Deploy your own version of NoPaste

NoPaste is just a bunch of static files, making it really easy to deploy on any kind of file server.

Read the wiki to see how you can deploy your own version of NoPaste for free using Github Pages