NoPaste is a client-side paste service which works with no database, and no back-end code
Instead, the data is compressed then stored into a unique URL that can be shared and decoded later. For example, this is the CSS code used by NoPaste
As a result, there is no risk of data being lost, censored or deleted. The data is stored entirely in the links and nowhere else!
Note: This project is a copy of Topaz's paste service, with a reworked design and a few additional features (syntax highlighting, line numbers, line wrapping, embedding...)
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.ml/#<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
NoPaste is great for sharing code snippets on various platforms.
These are the maximum link lengths on some apps and browsers.
| App | Max length |
|---|---|
| 10,000 | |
| 4,088 | |
| Slack | 4,000 |
| QR Code | 2,610 |
| Bitly | 2,048 |
| Browser | Max length | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Google Chrome | (win) 32,779 (mac) 10,000 | Will not display, but larger links work |
| Firefox | >64,000 | |
| Microsoft IE 11 | 4,043 | Will not show more than 2,083 |
| Microsoft Edge | 2,083 | Anything over 2083 will fail |
| Android | 8,192 | |
| Safari | Lots |
You can include NoPaste code snippets into your own website by clicking the Embed button and using the generated HTML code
This is what an embedded Paste snippet looks like
Feel free to edit the generated height and width attributes, so they suit your needs
NoPaste links can be created easily from your system's command line:
# Linux
echo -n 'Hello World' | lzma | base64 | xargs -0 printf "https://nopaste.ml/#%s"
# Mac
echo -n 'Hello World' | lzma | base64 -w0 | xargs -0 printf "https://nopaste.ml/#%s"
# Windows / WSL
echo -n 'Hello World' | xz --format=lzma | base64 -w0 | printf "https://nopaste.ml/#%s" "$(cat -)"