This is our help page, below you can find a list of the most frequently asked questions:

1. What is your Acceptable Use Policy?
2. For which languages do you offer syntax highlighting?
3. When and why do you warn for large paste: [Warning large paste]

Broadly speaking, the site was created to help programmers. Any paste or usage pattern not related to that goal which results in unusually high traffic will be flagged for investigation. Your paste may be deleted and your IP blocked. In particular, please do not paste email lists, password lists or personal information. The "report abuse" feature can be used to flag such pastes and they will be deleted. Do not aggressively spider the site. Exceptions can be arranged, contact us to discuss. If you can access pastebucket.com from one location, but not another, it's likely your IP address has been blocked for violating this policy. Get in touch and the block can be lifted.

Please do NOT post:
- email lists
- login details
- stolen source code
- password lists
- personal information / data
- pornographic information / data
- spam links


If you do not comply with our Acceptable Use Policy we might ban your IP address from the website. Also, your IP address might be shared with authorities.

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We use the SyntaxHighlighter software for our highlighting.

SyntaxHighlighter
version 3.0.83 (July 02 2010)
http://alexgorbatchev.com/SyntaxHighlighter
JavaScript code syntax highlighter.
Copyright 2004-2010 Alex Gorbatchev.

We warn because the SyntaxHighlighting is a client side operation (JavaScript) and some browsers have problems handling the large amount of data.

We will flag about the warning when the paste is larger than 50000 characters (including whitespace).