About snippet.sh

snippet.sh is a free temporary pastebin. Use it to share code, logs, command output, or a note for a short time. You get a link. The link expires after 5 minutes to 1 hour. Then the service deletes the text. An account is not necessary.

From a browser

1. Paste your text on the home page and select when the paste expires.
2. Your browser encrypts the text with AES-GCM and a new 128-bit key.
3. The server gets only the encrypted text. The key goes into the link, after the # character. A browser does not send that part of a link to a server.
4. The browser of the reader decrypts the text.

As a result, the service cannot read a paste that you make in a browser. Anyone who has the full link can read the paste. Send the link only to the person who needs it.

You can also select Delete after the first read. This makes a one-time link: the server deletes the paste when a person reads it. A link preview in a chat application does not delete the paste.

From a terminal

Pipe the output of a command to curl. The reply is the link.

echo "hello world" | curl -T- https://snippet.sh

The terminal guide shows all options and examples. A terminal upload is not end-to-end encrypted. The server stores the text as you sent it. For a password or a token, use the browser. Read how to send a secret.

Limits

• A paste contains text only, and its maximum size is 1 MiB.
• A paste expires after 1 hour at most.
• One IP address can create 10 pastes each minute.
• The ID in a link has 12 characters. It does not contain the letters i, l, o, or u, so it is easy to type correctly.

Contact

To report abuse, send the link of the paste and the reason to show the email address.