Managing Pastes
Once a paste exists you can view it, get its raw content, download it, edit it, fork it, and delete it.
View a paste
Section titled “View a paste”Open yoursite.com/paste/{hash}/. Multi-file pastes show one tab per file with syntax highlighting.
Raw text
Section titled “Raw text”Append /raw/ to a paste URL to get its content as plain text:
/paste/{hash}/raw/— all files (multi-file pastes are concatenated, each preceded by a// filenamecomment)./paste/{hash}/raw/{filename}— a single named file.
Raw output respects visibility, password, and burn-after-read rules.
Download
Section titled “Download”Append /download/ to a paste URL:
- Single-file pastes download as that file.
- Multi-file pastes download as a ZIP archive (requires the PHP
ZipArchiveextension on the server).
Edit a paste
Section titled “Edit a paste”Open yoursite.com/paste/{hash}/edit/. You can edit a paste when you are its owner (and hold the manage permission) or when you are a moderator. Editing creates a new revision for each changed file. Burn-after-read cannot be set when editing.
Fork a paste
Section titled “Fork a paste”When Paste Forking is enabled, open any public paste and choose Fork to create your own editable copy under your account. The original’s fork count increases, and (with BuddyPress active) the original author can receive a notification.
Delete a paste
Section titled “Delete a paste”Owners (with the manage permission) and moderators can delete a paste. Deleting removes the paste and its files, revisions, tags, collection links, stars, and reports.
Administrators can also trash or permanently delete pastes in bulk from SnipShare > All Pastes; see Moderation & Management.