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Pastie - Simple API wrapper to communicate with Pastie.org website¶ ↑

• Pastie gem is a simplified API to communicate with Pastie.org website.

• It is based on HTML processing since pastie.org does not provide any API access.

• This gem comes as a library and executable file.

• All pastes are private by default.

• History tracking feature is available from version 0.2.0.

• Sharing feature is available from version 0.2.2.

• Language parser option is available from version 0.2.3.

Installation¶ ↑

gem install pastie-api

Usage: API¶ ↑

require 'rubygems'
require 'pastie-api'

# Create a new private paste
p = Pastie.create('Test string')

# Create a new public paste
p = Pastie.create('Hello!', false)

# View paste details
puts "Paste ID: #{p.id}"
puts "Paste Key: #{p.key}"
puts "URL: #{p.link}"
puts "Raw link: #{p.raw_link}"

# Find existing paste
p = Pastie.get(1234567) # find by paste's ID
p = Pastie.get('abcdefabcdef') # find by paste's private code

Usage: Terminal¶ ↑

Usage: pastie [options] file1 file2 ... fileN
  -i, --info                       Display this information.
  -p, --public                     Paste files as public.
  -s, --share EMAIL                Share pastes with email
  -h, --history                    Show pastes history.
  -c, --clear                      Clear your pastes history.
  -l, --language LANGUAGE          Select a lanaguage parser for syntax highlighting. 
                                   Ruby is selected by default.

Authors & Contributors¶ ↑

• Dan Sosedoff, author, github.com/sosedoff

• Barry Hess, contributor, github.com/bjhess