These last days, i’ ve been using pastebin intensively, for things like diffs reviews, code snippets to discuss, etc.
And i got sick of the web interface.
So i took a couple of hours to write this nice python script which allows to upload seamlessly any content to pastebin.ca, and maybe it will be useful for other people than me, so i publish it here.
Very simple to use here is the usage():
$ pastebin [OPTIONS] [FILE]
Print the pastebin.ca URL of the input file
If FILE is omitted content is read from standard input
OPTIONS:
-h, --help Print this help notice.
-r, --raw Retreive raw text URL (default=off).
-d, --description The description of the content (default=empty).
-m, --message Same as description
-n, --name Your name (default=your unix username).
-t, --type The type of the content (default="raw")
Type can be one of:
raw, asterisk, c, cpp, php, perl, java, vb, csharp,
ruby, python, pascal, mirc, pli, xml, sql, scheme,
ascript, ada, apache, nasm, asp, bash, css, delphi, html, js,
lisp, lua, asm, objc, vbnet
If type is not specified, an attempt to auto-detect type is made,
based on file data/extension. Detection is more reliable when giving FILE
argument than piping directly. This needs modules gnomevfs and gtksourceview
If you have module gtk, the pastebin url will be placed in your clipboard,
you can then paste it with ctrl-v as usual.
That means you can cat important-patch.diff|pastebin -m 'look!' then Ctrl-v in xchat or wherever the output URL.
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16 responses to “The wonders of pastebin”
For pastebin.com-like sites I have created a script just like it (it’s even python) a few months ago – http://www.ubuntulinux.nl/files/pastebin
Cool stuff!
Ikke
Using it! Thanks a log
Err, lot. Not log 🙂
Very nice! But the automatic inclusion in the clipboard of the generated pastebin-URL doesn’t work for me. Or do I misunderstand this here:
“… you can cat important-patch.diff|pastebin -m ‘look!’ then Ctrl-v in xchat…”
I still have to mark the outputted URL from the pastebin-script explicitly in order to get in in the clipboard.
Thanks anyway for this nice python-gem!
Best regards…
MacSlow
Wed
I’ve noted a few links about an individual dev. on the gimp who is wreaking havoc for them. Talk about a crank!
I’ve found the best way to deal with issues like this is offlist. However, if this kind of thing persists (which I haven’t had to deal…
nice
Tha author wrote:
maybe it will be useful for other people than me
“Maybe” ??
This is pure shell genious.
At first it died on me, funky error message, probably did something illegal, but now it works like a charm.
Now, the question is, would it be possible to use the setting over at pastebin.ca that forces the paste to expire after X time? In the default state, i think the paste stays there forever and i think thats unnecessary.
It’s easily done, just modify the
# Default Values
[…]
expiry = “”
to
# Default Values
[…]
expiry = “5 minutes”
or any other string found in the EXPIRATIONS array on top of the file
kikidonk: thank you! fantastic!
[…] While browsing the archives of Raphael Slinckx’ blog, among other very interesting things, I came across a post about a Python script of his, which uploads a text file on the on-line pastebin pastebin.ca. A neat script like this proves to be extremely useful sometimes. […]
Nice, thank you
Buon luogo, congratulazioni, il mio amico!
hi nice site.
Thank you!!!!
Is there any way to make the expiration command-line driven?