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 similiar to GitHub Gist, but open-source and could be self-hosted.

Home Page • Documentation • Discord • Demo

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 :

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

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

Via binary

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

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

From source

Requirements: Git (2.28+), Go (1.22+), Node.js (16+), Make (optional, but easier)

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

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.