Share code online

Share code without an account, a repository or a paste site

Sometimes you only need to get a snippet from one machine to another: from your laptop to a lab computer, from a phone to a terminal, from a teammate's screen to your own. Committing it to a repository is too heavy, chat apps mangle indentation and turn straight quotes into curly ones, and paste sites ask you to pick an expiry, a visibility and sometimes to sign in. This page does one thing: you write or paste the code, you get a six-digit code, and the other person opens it with the exact characters you typed.

The editor highlights the syntax of 20 common languages, including JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, HTML, CSS, JSON, Bash, SQL, Java, C, C++, C#, Go, Rust, PHP, Ruby, Kotlin, Swift, YAML and Markdown. The receiver sees the code highlighted too, in a light or dark theme to match their device. Tabs, spaces and line breaks are kept exactly, which is what makes a snippet runnable after you paste it.

How it works, and what is private

A code clip is an ordinary clip with an invisible marker at the start that names the language. The server stores it like any other text, with the expiry you chose, and deletes it when the time is up (or after the first view if you chose that). If you add a password, the whole clip, marker included, is encrypted in your browser before it is sent, so the server only ever holds unreadable data and cannot tell what language it is.

Highlighting happens in the browser. The code is never sent to a highlighting service, and the highlighting library is downloaded only when a code clip is shown. The marker is stripped before you copy or download, so you always get exactly your own code back. You can also download it as a file with the right extension, such as .py or .ts, or as a Word or PDF file.

What to share, and what not to

Anyone who has the six-digit code can open an unprotected clip until it expires, so treat it like a link to a note, not like a private repository. Never share secrets here: API keys, passwords, tokens, private keys and connection strings do not belong in a snippet. If you must send something sensitive, use a short expiry, add a password and tell the password to the person another way, or use delete after first view. Remove secrets from logs and config files before you paste them.

The size limit is 100,000 characters per clip, which is plenty for a file or a long snippet. It is not a place to keep code: clips expire after at most seven days, and there are no accounts or history. For long-lived code use a repository or a gist, and use this for quick hand-offs. If you only need to send plain text or a link, the online clipboard works the same way, and the guide on sharing code online with syntax highlighting explains the options.

Keyboard and editing

The editor is a normal text box with the highlighting drawn behind it, so selection, undo, the mobile keyboard and input methods all work as usual. Tab inserts two spaces and Enter keeps the indentation of the line you were on. Press Esc and then Tab if you want Tab to move to the next field instead. Very long code (over about 40,000 characters) is shown without colours to keep typing smooth, but it is still shared exactly as written.