Skarlett / nixos-txt

Host a stupid simple paste bin

txt

Host your own stupid simple paste bin

Installation

In your NixOS configuration.nix or NixOps network.

  imports = [
    (import fetchTarball https://github.com/icetan/nixos-txt/tarball/master)
  ];

  txt = {
    enable = true;
    # Domain on which the Nginx HTTP server will be listening on
    host = "txt.example.org";
    # List of SSH public keys that will have write access via the `txt` user.
    sshKeys = [ "<SSH public key...>" ];
  };

Usage

Publish a plain text:

echo Hello World! | ssh [e-mail]
> https://txt.example.org/oLZZOWcLwsAQ9NXWoLPk5FkPuSs

Publish a Markdown document as rendered HTML and brows to it:

xdg-open $(pandoc --from=gfm --to=html5 --self-contained < some-markdown-document.md | ssh [e-mail]).html

The file extension when browsing to a txt endpoing will determine what the Content-Type response header will be set to.

How does it work

txt uses a simple bash script as user shell which reads from STDIN and writes to a file with a content based ID. In this way you can just pipe data to an ssh client.