pastebin-ai 📄✨

A pretty CLI for pastebin.ai — share code, logs, and text from your terminal with beautiful output.

✨ Paste created!
──────────────────────────────────────────────────
🔗 https://pastebin.ai/p/abc123
📄 https://pastebin.ai/raw/abc123
⏰ Expires: 2026-11-13T17:30:19Z
🗑️ Delete token: abc123...

Features

• 🎨 Beautiful output — colors, emojis, spinners
• ⚡ Fast — built with Rust, minimal dependencies
• 🔐 Authentication — secure token storage
• 📋 Clipboard integration — copy URLs/content with -c
• 📁 File input — pastebin-ai create -f main.rs
• 📥 Stdin support — cat file.txt | pastebin-ai create
• 🔍 Get pastes — fetch by ID or URL
• 📋 List pastes — see your history (with auth)
• 🗑️ Delete pastes — with token or auth
• 🤫 Quiet mode — just the URL for scripting

Installation

Cargo (recommended)

cargo install pastebin-ai

Binary releases

Download from GitHub Releases.

Build from source

git clone https://github.com/mnk-works/pastebin-ai
cd pastebin-ai
cargo install --path .

Quick Start

# Create a paste from stdin
echo "hello world" | pastebin-ai create

# Create from a file with syntax highlighting
pastebin-ai create -f main.rs -l rust

# Create with options
pastebin-ai create "code here" -t "My Title" -l python -v public -e 1d

# Get a paste
pastebin-ai get abc123

# Get raw content only
pastebin-ai get abc123 --raw

# List your pastes (requires auth)
pastebin-ai auth login pba_your_token
pastebin-ai list

# Delete a paste
pastebin-ai delete abc123 --token delete_token_here

Commands

Options

Create Options

pastebin-ai create [CONTENT] [OPTIONS]

Options:
  -f, --file <FILE>           Read content from file
  -t, --title <TITLE>         Paste title
  -l, --language <LANG>       Syntax highlighting (default: plaintext)
  -v, --visibility <VIS>      public | unlisted | private (default: unlisted)
  -e, --expiration <EXP>      10m | 1h | 1d | 1w | 2w | 1m | 6m | 1y | never (default: 1w)
  -c, --category <CAT>        code | logs | configuration | data | documentation | other (default: code)
  --tags <TAGS>               Comma-separated tags
  --max-views <N>             Maximum views (1-1000)
  --password <PASS>           Password protect
  --burn-after-read           Delete after first view
  --copy                      Copy URL to clipboard
  -q, --quiet                 Output only URL

Global Options

--no-color    Disable colored output
--no-emoji    Disable emoji output

Authentication

Get your API token from pastebin.ai/settings/api (starts with pba_):

pastebin-ai auth login pba_your_token_here

Tokens are stored in ~/.config/pastebin-ai/config.toml.

Examples

# Share a Rust file with syntax highlighting
pastebin-ai create -f src/main.rs -l rust -t "My Rust snippet"

# Pipe command output
cargo build 2>&1 | pastebin-ai create -t "Build log" -l text -c logs

# Create a temporary paste (10 minutes)
pastebin-ai create "temp data" -e 10m

# Create a password-protected paste
pastebin-ai create "secret" --password hunter2

# Burn after read (self-destructing)
pastebin-ai create "one-time secret" --burn-after-read

# Script-friendly: just the URL
url=$(pastebin-ai create "content" -q)
echo "Share: $url"

Configuration

Config file: ~/.config/pastebin-ai/config.toml

auth = { token = "pba_..." }

License

MIT OR Apache-2.0