Opengist

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. It is similar to GitHub Gist, but open-source and could be self-hosted.

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Features

• Create public, unlisted or private snippets
• Init / Clone / Pull / Push snippets via Git over HTTP or SSH
• Syntax highlighting ; markdown & CSV support
• Search code in snippets; browse users snippets, likes and forks
• Embed snippets in other websites
• Revisions history
• Like / Fork snippets
• Download raw files or as a ZIP archive
• OAuth2 login with GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, and OpenID Connect
• Restrict or unrestrict snippets visibility to anonymous users
• Docker support
• More...

Quick start

With Docker

Docker images are available for each release :

docker pull ghcr.io/thomiceli/opengist:1.8

It can be used in a docker-compose.yml file :

1. Create a docker-compose.yml file with the following content
2. Run docker compose up -d
3. Opengist is now running on port 6157, you can browse http://localhost:6157

services:
  opengist:
    image: ghcr.io/thomiceli/opengist:1.8
    container_name: opengist
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
      - "6157:6157" # HTTP port
      - "2222:2222" # SSH port, can be removed if you don't use SSH
    volumes:
      - "$HOME/.opengist:/opengist"

You can define which user/group should run the container and own the files by setting the UID and GID environment variables :

services:
  opengist:
    # ...
    environment:
      UID: 1001
      GID: 1001

Via binary

Download the archive for your system from the release page here, and extract it.

# example for linux amd64
wget https://github.com/thomiceli/opengist/releases/download/v1.8.1/opengist1.8.1-linux-amd64.tar.gz

tar xzvf opengist1.8.1-linux-amd64.tar.gz
cd opengist
chmod +x opengist
./opengist # with or without `--config config.yml`

Opengist is now running on port 6157, you can browse http://localhost:6157

From source

Requirements: Git (2.28+), Go (1.23+), Node.js (16+), Make (optional, but easier)

git clone https://github.com/thomiceli/opengist
cd opengist
make
./opengist

Opengist is now running on port 6157, you can browse http://localhost:6157

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To create and run a development environment, see run-development.md.

Documentation

The documentation is available at https://opengist.io/ or in the /docs directory.

License

Opengist is licensed under the AGPL-3.0 license.