General Information

SpammCan is yet another pastbin web application. It distinguishes itself from its competitors by the following features:

• Has syntax highlighting support for over 100 languages thanks to the use of Pygments.

• Is easy to install thanks to setuptools.

• Uses large, random GUIDs for paste entries in its URLs instead of sequential paste numbers to discourage spammers.

  Also detects and rejects spamming attempts with the help of a SpamBayes filter.

• Is built on TurboGears 1.1, Genshi, and SQLAlchemy.

• Uses a SQLite database by default, but can use any database system supported by SQLAlchemy and TurboGears.

Getting the Code

You can run your own SpammCan server! For more information, downloads, and source code, visit the project home page at

http://chrisarndt.de/projects/spammcan

You can also install SpammCan via its Python Package Index (aka Cheeseshop) entry:

$ [sudo] easy_install SpammCan

Finally, if you want the latest development code for SpammCan, you can check it out from the Subversion repository:

$ svn co svn://chrisarndt.de/projects/SpammCan/trunk SpammCan

Todo

• Line number with anchors links - done
• Paste title - done
• Download plain text - done
• Toggle line numbers on/off via JS or new request - done
• Anti-Spam filter (Spambayes) - done
• "My pastes" (store client ID in cookie) - done
• Reply to paste - done

• Add backward compatibility for old Stickum pastes, i.e import the Stickum database in a legacy table and serve pastes from there, if the paste ID is not a 32-char hash.
• Export CSS color schemes from Pygments and include them in static files and render appropriate stylesheet link.
• Line wrapping with soft-linebreak markers and correct line numbers

• Paste statistics (for admin only?) (I installed awstats on my server instead, so this is not so urgent atm)
• Tags/Categories and Tag cloud - postponed
• Paste-Feed - postponed
• List of all pastes - postponed

Changelog