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+# Obsolute Paste
+
+A no-nonsense pastebin, that serves content of files from a private gitlab repository
+
+Necessary ENV Variables:
+
+`GITLAB_TOKEN`: A personal/deploy token, that can read the files in the provided repo
+`BASE_URL`: Base API URL to the repo, example: `https://git.baalajimaestro.me/api/v4/projects/0`
+
+This project is hostable with docker, and a prebuilt docker image is at `registry.baalajimaestro.me/baalajimaestro/obsolute-paste`