Configuration

File

The configuration file has a bunch more properties to configure pinnwand with. Here’s an example file:

# Example configuration file for `pinnwand`. Shows what you can adjust. More
# information can be found at `pinnwand`'s documentation:
# https://pinnwand.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ or you can file an issue at our
# GitHub: https://github.com/supakeen/pinnwand

# Database URI to connect to see: https://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/13/core/engines.html#database-urls
# if you want to use databases other than sqlite be sure to install the
# appropriate packages and then format this url to correspond to them.
database_uri = "sqlite:///:memory:"

# Maximum paste size you want to allow.
paste_size = 262144  # 256kB in bytes

# Preferred lexers. This list of lexers will appear on top of the dropdown
# on the website allowing you to preselect commonly used lexers. Note that the
# names here have to be the identifiers used by pygments, not the human names.
# If empty no preferred lexers are shown.
preferred_lexers = []

# Logo path, used to render your logo. If left out the default logo will be
# used. This file must be a png file.
# logo_path = "/path/to/a/file.png"

# The page path is used to find the pages listed in the page_list
page_path = "/tmp"

# This is the whitelist of files that should exist in the `page_path`
# configuration directive. `pinnwand` will look for `$file.rst` in the
# `page_path` directory and serve it at `/$file`.
page_list = ["about", "removal", "expiry"]

# The footer in raw HTML, shown at the bottom of the page and handy to link to
# your previously configured pages.
footer = 'View <a href="//github.com/supakeen/pinnwand" target="_BLANK">source code</a>, the <a href="/removal">removal</a> or <a href="/expiry">expiry</a> stories, or read the <a href="/about">about</a> page.'

# HTML for the 'help text' that can be shown above the paste area, if left
# empty no help text will be shown.
paste_help = "<p>Welcome to pinnwand, this site is a pastebin. It allows you to share code with others. If you write code in the text area below and press the paste button you will be given a link you can share with others so they can view your code as well.</p><p>People with the link can view your pasted code, only you can remove your paste and it expires automatically. Note that anyone could guess the URI to your paste so don't rely on it being private.</p>"

Options

database_uri

A URI as accepted by sqlalchemy for the database to use.

Default: sqlite:///:memory`

paste_size

Maximum size of a formatted paste. This includes the HTML as generated by pygments. The size should be supplied in bytes.

Default: 262144 (256 kB).

preferred_lexers

The lexers that are shown on the homepage above all other lexers. This allows you to customize your homepage to the most-used lexers for your users.

Leaving this list empty will not show any preferred lexers. The lexer names in this list must be supported by pygments.

Default: [].

logo_path

Path to a custom logo file. Needs to be readable by the user pinnwand runs as. Leave out of the configuration file if you want to use the default logo.

Default: unset.

page_path

A filesystem path where pages listed in page_path are looked up in. If unset the default pinnwand path will be used.

Default: unset.

page_list

List of static text pages. If set these pages will be looked up in the page_path variable. These files should exist in page_path with a .rst suffix.

Default: ["about", "removal", "expiry"]

paste_help

HTML to render above the new paste page to help users on how to use your instance.

Default: bunch of html