Haste Client for pbbin.com

pbbin is a simple client for uploading data to https://pbbin.com (a haste-server). All you do it pipe data in STDIN:

cat file | pbbin

And once the output makes it to the server, it will print the URL to STDOUT.

This can be really really cool in combination with pbcopy, like:

• mac osx: cat file | pbbin | pbcopy
• linux: cat file | pbbin | xsel

after which the contents of file will be accessible at a URL which has been copied to your pasteboard.

Installation

gem install pbbin

Making uploading file contents easier

If you supply a valid file path as argument #1 to the client, it will be uploaded:

# equivalent
cat file | pbbin
pbbin file

You can get the raw version

Want the raw URL returned instead? (a plain-text version)?

cat file | pbbin --raw # or
pbbin file --raw

Changing the location of your haste server

By default, pbbin will point at https://pbbin.com. You can change this by setting the value of ENV['HASTE_SERVER'] to the URL of your haste server. You can also use alias to make easy shortcuts if you commonly use a few hastes intermingled with each other. To do that, you'd put something like this into ~.bash_profile:

alias work_haste="HASTE_SERVER=https://something.com pbbin"

After which you can use work_haste to send hastes to that server instead.

Authentication

If your haste installation requires http authentication, add the following to your ~.bash_profile:

export HASTE_USER="myusername"
export HASTE_PASS="mypassword"

if you are using SSL, you will need to supply your certs path

export HASTE_SSL_CERTS="/System/Library/OpenSSL/certs"

Use as a library

You can also use Haste as a library to upload hastes:

require 'pbbin'
uploader = Haste::Uploader.new
uploader.upload_raw 'this is my data' # key
uploader.upload_path '/tmp/whaaaa' # key

Windows Support

If you'd like an alternative on Windows that supports functionality similar to pbcopy, check out the pbbin fork of Aidan Ryan's WinHaste project.

Lightweight Alternative

Han Boetes and @nickthename have contributed a simple shell-script alternative for those not interested in installing a RubyGem:

pbbin() {
    local S="https" H="pastebin.com" P="" L="$1"
    local SHP="${S}://${H}${P}/"
    curl -X POST -s --data-binary @- "${SHP}documents" \
      | awk -F '"' 'b{ b="."b }; {print a$4b}' a="${SHP}" b="${L}"
}

Where S is the scheme, H is the host, P is the port, and L is the language. Requires curl

Usage:

cat file.txt | pbbin     # cat file into hate, output url
pbbin sh < script.sh     # Same as above, but ensure shell syntax highlighting 
xsel -b | pbbin txt      # Output clipboard buffer into haste, ensure no highlighting  

And a more expansive BASH option by @diethnis can be found at: https://github.com/diethnis/standalones/blob/master/hastebin.sh

Author

John Crepezzi john.crepezzi@gmail.com

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright © 2011 John Crepezzi

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