Opengist is a self-hosted pastebin powered by Git. All snippets are stored in a Git repository and can be read and/or modified using standard Git commands, or with the web interface.
Opengist aims to be fast and easy to deploy.
It is similar to GitHub Gist, but open-source and can be self-hosted.
Key Features
- Create public, unlisted or private snippets.
- Init / Clone / Pull / Push snippets via Git over HTTP or SSH.
- Syntax highlighting ; Markdown and CSV support.
- Search code in snippets ; browse users snippets, likes and forks.
- Embed snippets in other websites.
- Revisions history.
- Like / Fork snippets.
- Editor with indentation mode and size ; drag and drop files.
- Download raw files or as a ZIP archive.
- Retrieve snippet data/metadata via a JSON API.
- OAuth2 login with GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, and OpenID Connect.
- Avatars via Gravatar or OAuth2 providers.
- Light/Dark mode.
- Responsive UI.
- Enable or disable signups.
- Restrict or unrestrict snippets visibility to anonymous users.
- Admin panel:
- delete users/gists.
- clean database/filesystem by syncing gists.
- run git gc for all repositories.
- SQLite database.
- Logging.
- Docker support.
Website: github.com/thomiceli/opengist
Support:
Developer: Thomas Miceli
License: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
Opengist is written in Go. Learn Go with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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