A tiny little dpaste.com API
When I created dpaste, I tried to make it both a simple browser-based tool and a simple RESTful API. With very little work you could write a script that created a new paste item with a single POST.
Over the life of the site a few people have discovered and played with that “secret” API. I’ve now made it a bit more official. The new API has its own URL (versioned, even!) and is more tolerant of missing data, just like the web form.
The URL is http://dpaste.com/api/v1/. In a web browser you’ll see just a terse line of instructions. Here’s a one-line usage example for unixy people. It takes text on stdin and returns the URL of the newly created paste.
curl -si -F 'content=<-' http://dpaste.com/api/v1/ | grep ^Location: | colrm 1 10
Support disclaimer: Depending on your version of curl and your shell some of those options may need twiddling. But in a low-tech way it’s kind of cool, isn’t it? (Figuring out how to get curl to read stdin was a new one for me, so the novelty is high at the moment.)
Anyway, use and enjoy as you wish!
mikele commented :
hey thanks for this!! btw how can I specify the syntax of the snippet???
Paul commented :
mikele: Set the “language” field. Look at the source of the dpaste.com form to see the options.
sm4rt h4ck3r commented :
dpaste is fantastic! Simply fantastic… You did an Impressive work Paul, really!
- Its secured than others.
- It uses auto delete, so it is great for your server space.
- It converts it all in normal text and gives a url, wow!
- It is FREE!
My request: Can you please start something like “Tutorials” for python and/or perl.. Some websites do offer but they are just not so good..
PS: If you start tutorials, me and my team will be glad to learn and click on your ads too ;-)
Griffin commented :
Love it, using it now for an IRC bot (hope you don’t mind!). Thanks for the API <3
Paul commented :
Excellent! That’s exactly the sort of thing I wanted to enable. Thanks for using it.