Installing the command-line executable

Assuming you have Rust/Cargo installed, run this command in a terminal:

cargo install microbin

It will make the microbin command available in your PATH if you've allowed the PATH to be modified when installing Rust. cargo uninstall microbin uninstalls.

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MicroBin

MicroBin is a super tiny, feature rich, configurable, self-contained and self-hosted paste bin web application. It is very easy to set up and use, and will only require a few megabytes of memory and disk storage. It takes only a couple minutes to set it up, why not give it a try now?

Check out the Public Test Server at pub.microbin.eu!

Or host MicroBin yourself

Run our quick docker setup script (DockerHub):

bash <(curl -s https://microbin.eu/docker.sh)

Or install it manually from Cargo:

cargo install microbin;
curl -L -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/;szabodanika/microbin/master/.env;
source .env;
microbin

On our website microbin.eu you will find the following:

Features

Entirely self-contained executable, MicroBin is a single file!
Server-side and client-side encryption
File uploads (eg. server.com/file/pig-dog-cat)
Raw text serving (eg. server.com/raw/pig-dog-cat)
QR code support
URL shortening and redirection
Animal names instead of random numbers for upload identifiers (64 animals)
SQLite and JSON database support
Private and public, editable and uneditable, automatically and never expiring uploads
Automatic dark mode and custom styling support with very little CSS and only vanilla JS (see water.css)
And much more!

What is an upload?

In MicroBin, an upload can be:

A text that you want to paste from one machine to another, eg. some code,
A file that you want to share, eg. a video that is too large for Discord, a zip with a code project in it or an image,
A URL redirection.

When is MicroBin useful?

You can use MicroBin:

To send long texts to other people,
To send large files to other people,
To share secrets or sensitive documents securely,
As a URL shortener/redirect service,
To serve content on the web, eg. configuration files for testing, images, or any other file content using the Raw functionality,
To move files between your desktop and a server you access from the console,
As a "postbox" service where people can upload their files or texts, but they cannot see or remove what others sent you,
Or even to take quick notes.

...and many other things, why not get creative?

MicroBin and MicroBin.eu are available under the BSD 3-Clause License.