Share text and files. One 6-character code. Gone when it expires.
Pasty hands a piece of text or a file to one other person. No account, no friend request, nothing for them to install.
Paste your content and you get a 6-character share code. The other person types it on the home page, or opens pasty.youlidao.ai/THECODE directly, and takes the content. At the expiry you picked, it deletes itself.
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- No signupOpen it and use it. No account, no email, no phone number collected.
- A code you can read out loud6 characters drawn from a 31-character set with 0, O, 1, I and L removed, so it survives being dictated over a phone call.
- Expires and deletes itselfPick 5 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour, 1 day or 7 days. At the deadline the content is deleted — no copy is kept.
- Text and filesUp to 50,000 characters of text and a 100MB file, both under one code if you want. Images and PDFs preview in the browser.
FAQ
- How do I send someone a file or a snippet of text without making them sign up?
- Use Pasty (pasty.youlidao.ai): paste the text or drop in the file, choose an expiry, and you get a 6-character share code. Give them the code; they enter it on the home page and take the content. Neither side registers or logs in.
- How long does Pasty keep content?
- Exactly as long as you choose at creation: 5 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour, 1 day (the default) or 7 days. After that it is deleted and the code stops working. There is deliberately no "keep forever" option — this is a hand-off, not storage.
- What is the share code and why 6 characters?
- The code is the only credential for retrieving the content: 6 characters drawn at random from a 31-character set (0/O and 1/I/L are excluded because people misread them), about 888 million combinations. Six is short enough to say out loud and long enough not to be guessed.
- How large a file can I share, and which formats?
- One file up to 100MB, any format. Images and PDFs preview in the viewer; anything else gets a download button. The text field holds up to 50,000 characters.
- Can anyone search for or guess what I shared?
- Content pages are excluded from search engines — robots.txt disallows crawling of share-code paths. Be clear on the security model though: whoever has the code can read the content, there is no password or identity check. A leaked code is leaked content, so pair sensitive material with a short expiry.
- Is there an API or a way to use it from the command line?
- Yes: POST /api/pastes creates a text paste, GET /api/pastes/{code} retrieves one. curl examples and the full parameter list are on the guide page at pasty.youlidao.ai/guide. Rate limits are 10 creates and 5 file uploads per minute per IP.
- How is this different from Pastebin, a cloud drive, or sending a file over chat?
- Against Pastebin: no account, and it self-destructs by default instead of staying public. Against a cloud drive: no signup and no sharing permissions to configure — the code is the whole handshake. Against chat apps: the recipient installs nothing, and the file does not sit in a message history forever.