Question

Is it possible to use pastebin (may be via their “API” functionality) inside bash shell scripts? How do I send http-post? How do I get back the URL?

Answer 1

The documentation says that you need to submit a POST request to

http://pastebin.com/api_public.php

and the only mandatory parameter is paste_code, of type string is the paste that you want to make.

On success a new pastebin URL will be returned.

You can easily do this from your bash shell using the command curl.

curl uses the -d option to send the POST data to the specified URL.

Demo:

This demo will create a new paste with the code:

printf("Hello..I am Codaddict");

From your shell:

$ curl -d 'paste_code=printf("Hello..I am Codaddict");' 'http://pastebin.com/api_public.php'
http://pastebin.com/598VLDZp
$

Now if you see the URL http://pastebin.com/598VLDZp, you’ll see my paste 🙂

Alternatively you can do it using the wget command which uses the option --post-data to sent POST values.

I’ve tried this command it works fine:

wget --post-data 'paste_code=printf("Hello..I am Codaddict");' 'http://pastebin.com/api_public.php'