Meta

These are the docs for the meta endpoints. Used for fetching some stats and info about PasteMyst itself.

Get the active paste count

Returns the number of currently active pastes.

GET /api/v3/meta/active_pastes

Response

{
    "count": 118563
}

Get the PasteMyst version

Returns the current running PasteMyst version.

GET /api/v3/meta/version

Response

{
    "version": "3.0.0"
}

Get all releases

Returns the list of all releases ever released on PasteMyst, along with their own changelogs.

GET /api/v3/meta/releases

The content is markdown text.

The field isPrerelease marks alpha/beta releases.

Response

[
    {
        "content": "## added\r\n- v2 to v3 database migrator\r\n- decrypting v2 pastes\r\n- custom toast messages\r\n- announcement system\r\n- loader when creating pastes\r\n- embedding pastes\r\n\r\n## changed\r\n- moved backend tests to a separate project by [@pippinmole](https://github.com/pippinmole)\r\n- refactored backend to use CancellationToken by [@pippinmole](https://github.com/pippinmole)\r\n- upgraded mongo driver to version 3\r\n- faster rendering of version and active pastes\r\n\r\n## fixed\r\n- removed hosted service from ChangelogProvider by [@pippinmole](https://github.com/pippinmole)\r\n- guesslang-bun fixed in docker by [@pippinmole ](https://github.com/pippinmole)\r\n- case insensitive matching of oauth providers\r\n- username unique index\r\n- version provider using the wrong git path\r\n- semver version ordering\r\n- reordering of tabs is no longer only visual",
        "isPrerelease": true,
        "releasedAt": "2025-02-27T20:59:29+00:00",
        "title": "v3.0.0-alpha.13",
        "url": "https://github.com/pastemyst/pastemyst-v3/releases/tag/3.0.0-alpha.13"
    },
    {
        "content": "## added\r\n- headings in markdown now have anchor links\r\n- code blocks in markdown now have syntax highlighting\r\n- showing when a paste has been edited on user pages\r\n- replaced linguist grammars with tm-grammars\r\n- pre-commit hook for svelte\r\n- migrated to svelte 5\r\n- added scopes to access tokens\r\n- you can now generate custom access tokens to access the api in the profile settings\r\n- encrypted pastes\r\n\r\n## fixed\r\n- viewing raw pastes\r\n- github actions node version\r\n- bad quartz version",
        "isPrerelease": true,
        "releasedAt": "2025-01-23T12:05:49+00:00",
        "title": "v3.0.0-alpha.12",
        "url": "https://github.com/pastemyst/pastemyst-v3/releases/tag/3.0.0-alpha.12"
    },
    {
        "content": "## fixed\r\n- made all the http methods in the frontend uppercase",
        "isPrerelease": true,
        "releasedAt": "2024-10-22T20:17:02+00:00",
        "title": "v3.0.0-alpha.11.1",
        "url": "https://github.com/pastemyst/pastemyst-v3/releases/tag/3.0.0-alpha.11.1"
    },
    // ...
]

Get the PasteMyst stats

Returns the stats of active/total pastes and active/total users on PasteMyst over time.

GET /api/v3/meta/stats

Response

{
    "activePastes": 12,
    "activePastesOverTime": {
        "2025-03-02T19:05:22.577Z": 1,
        "2025-03-02T19:06:09.023Z": 2,
        "2025-03-02T19:06:20.357Z": 3,
        "2025-03-17T19:31:19.782Z": 4,
        "2025-03-17T19:45:12.127Z": 5,
        "2025-03-18T16:14:33.872Z": 6,
        "2025-03-24T10:39:40.183Z": 7,
        "2025-03-24T10:45:09.287Z": 8,
        "2025-03-26T18:04:32.714Z": 9,
        "2025-03-26T18:23:18.942Z": 10,
        "2025-03-31T08:56:34.635Z": 11,
        "2025-04-22T21:22:32.762Z": 12
    },
    "activeUsers": 1,
    "totalPastes": 12,
    "totalPastesOverTime": {
        "2025-03-02T19:05:22.577Z": 1,
        "2025-03-02T19:06:09.023Z": 2,
        "2025-03-02T19:06:20.357Z": 3,
        "2025-03-17T19:31:19.782Z": 4,
        "2025-03-17T19:45:12.127Z": 5,
        "2025-03-18T16:14:33.872Z": 6,
        "2025-03-24T10:39:40.183Z": 7,
        "2025-03-24T10:45:09.287Z": 8,
        "2025-03-26T18:04:32.714Z": 9,
        "2025-03-26T18:23:18.942Z": 10,
        "2025-03-31T08:56:34.635Z": 11,
        "2025-04-22T21:22:32.762Z": 12
    },
    "totalUsers": 1
}