Free online Pastebin
Paste code, notes, or logs and get a clean short link to share anywhere. Optional password and expiry, no account needed.
What is Pastebin?
Pastebin lets you share code or text through a clean link instead of pasting walls of text into chat. Paste your snippet here, optionally set a title, expiration date, and password, and za.gl generates a short link you can drop anywhere.
- Lives in the same za.gl account as your short links
- Free with no signup required
- Perfect for logs, config files, error messages, code reviews, and long notes
Syntax highlighting
Paste code, configs, or logs and read them clearly with language-aware formatting.
Private when you need it
Lock any paste behind a password so only the people you share it with can open it.
Set it to expire
Add an expiry date and the paste disappears on its own. No cleanup, no account required.
From clipboard to shareable link, in three steps
- 1
Paste the text
Up to 500,000 characters go in: a stack trace, a config file, a SQL dump, a page of notes. Nothing is stored until you press the button.
- 2
Language, password, expiry
Pick one of 18 languages so the syntax colours correctly. Add a password of 4 to 100 characters if it should stay private, and an expiry date if it should not outlive the conversation.
- 3
Share the link
You get a za.gl link straight back, plus a token that lets you edit or delete the paste later. No sign-up, no email, no confirmation step.
What a paste can hold
Every figure below is what the service enforces today, not a marketing rounding.
| Maximum size | 500,000 characters, around 500 KB of text |
|---|---|
| Syntax languages | 18, from JavaScript and Python to YAML and Markdown |
| Password | Optional, 4 to 100 characters |
| Expiry | Optional date, after which the paste stops opening |
| Title | Optional, up to 200 characters |
| Account | Not required, a token comes back with every paste |
| Editing | Edit or delete at any time with that token |
| Search engines | Not indexed, paste URLs are disallowed in robots.txt |
| Price | Free, with no monthly cap on pastes |
Languages that get highlighted
Anything outside this list still pastes fine, it just stays plain text.
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- Python
- JSON
- Bash / Shell
- SQL
- HTML / XML
- CSS
- Java
- Go
- Rust
- PHP
- Ruby
- C
- C++
- C#
- YAML
- Markdown
What people actually use it for
Sending a stack trace
Chat apps eat indentation and cut long errors in half. A paste keeps the trace intact and hands the other person a link they can reopen tomorrow.
A config review before a deploy
Share the nginx block or the YAML, set it to expire tonight, and it is gone before anyone bookmarks the wrong version.
Answering on a forum
Some forums mangle code blocks. One link keeps the snippet formatted and lets you fix a typo later without editing the post.
Long notes instead of a long email
Meeting notes, a draft, a list of links. Send one short link instead of a wall of text nobody scrolls to the end of.
Frequently asked questions
No. You can create a paste instantly without signing up. You get an authentication token you can save to manage or recover your pastes later.
Yes, creating and sharing pastes is completely free. There are no limits to worry about for normal use.
Yes. Add a password when you create the paste and visitors will need it before they can read the content.
Pastes stay up indefinitely by default. If you set an expiration date, the paste is removed automatically once it passes.
Up to 500,000 characters, roughly 500 KB of plain text. That covers most log files and single source files. Above it, split the content into two pastes.
Eighteen: JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, JSON, Bash, SQL, HTML/XML, CSS, Java, Go, Rust, PHP, Ruby, C, C++, C#, YAML and Markdown. Anything else is stored and displayed as plain text.
Yes. Every paste counts views, with country and referrer, the same way short links do. You reach the numbers from the dashboard with the token you were given.
Yes, with the token handed back when you created it. Editing replaces the content behind the same link, deleting removes it and the link stops opening.
No. Paste URLs are disallowed in robots.txt, so a paste is reachable through its link, not through search. If you need a real lock rather than obscurity, add a password.
The rest of the toolbox
URL shortener
Turn a long address into a short link with an alias, password, expiry and click analytics.
Shorten a linkLanding pages
Build a full page in a drag-and-drop builder and publish it on a za.gl link, without hosting.
Open the builderAPI
Create pastes and links from your own code with a bearer token and one POST request.
Read the API docsPaste something and see
No account, no card, no limit on how many pastes you create. If it does not fit in a message, it fits here.