I'm quite fond of hastebin.com. It's fast. It's reliable. And it's got nice keyboard shortcuts that work for my taste.
So, I created a little program to quickly throw things into hastebin. You can have one too:
First create ~/bin/hastebinit and paste in:
#!/usr/bin/python
import urllib2
import os
import json
URL = 'http://hastebin.com/documents'
def run(*args):
if args:
content = [open(x).read() for x in args]
extensions = [os.path.splitext(x)[1] for x in args]
else:
content = [sys.stdin.read()]
extensions = [None]
for i, each in enumerate(content):
req = urllib2.Request(URL, each)
response = urllib2.urlopen(req)
the_page = response.read()
key = json.loads(the_page)['key']
url = "http://hastebin.com/%s" % key
if extensions[i]:
url += extensions[i]
print url
if __name__ == '__main__':
import sys
sys.exit(run(*sys.argv[1:]))
Then run: chmod +x ~/bin/hastebinit
Now you can do things like:
$ cat ~/myfile | hastebinit $ hastebinit < ~/myfile $ hastebinit ~/myfile myotherfile
Hopefully it'll one day help at least one more soul out there!
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Post your own commentThis looks pretty sweet, though hastebin also seems to have a command-line utility:
https://github.com/seejohnrun/haste-client
Grrr! If I had only known :(
Thanks for that.
That's one beutiful site, I'm surprised I haven't heard of it before.
Thanks for sharing your script I'll definitely try to find some use for this.
Just a little cent.
If the system can not found the script in ~/bin/ , the script invocation should be like:
$ cat ~/myfile | ~/bin/hastebinit
$ ~/bin/hastebinit < ~/myfile
$ ~/bin/hastebinit ~/myfile myotherfile
This is because the executable files under ~/bin/ are not always included in the path environment variable. Some distributions like Debian and derivatives do it this way, if you create the bin folder, but for other distributions you may have to add it to the path manually.
Or you can add ~/bin/ to your path editing .bashrc or other terminal initialization script, and using the next configuration lines:
PATH=~/bin:"${PATH}"
export PATH
I have actually modified the configuration to use .bin (with the dot), because I do not like the bin folder showing in my beautifully organized home folder...
Thanks. That is a nice and simple version in python. Great for those who don't want to install Ruby for https://github.com/seejohnrun/haste-client
Sadly it's not Py3k compatible, so I made my own.
Thanks for this. I discovered hastebin and found a script that I could use with it. I won't install Ruby on our Unix server (even if I could get it compiled - doubtful) so the Python version is a welcome alternative.
I've been using https://www.pastefs.com for the same reason, It's new but I'm positive that you'll like it iA
I think hastebin is dead now. I personally always use GitHub Gists.