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Pastebin Client

An exercise in Python package development and web scraping.

Because Pastebin does not offer an API unless you have a Pro account, this package scrapes HTML for its data.

The PastebinAPI.get_public_paste_list method does not download full paste text to avoid hammering the site. When the paste list is fetched, it will return a list of Paste objects with the following fields:

  • title - Paste title
  • href - URL of the paste
  • lang - Paste language
  • fetched - True if the full text and metadata have been fetched

To fetch the full text and metadata of a paste, pass the paste as the argument to PastebinAPI.get_paste. This will return a Paste object with the following fields populated:

  • author - Paste author
  • pub_date - Publication date
  • category - Paste category
  • text - Full paste text

This workflow will change once I figure out a decent method to create a full Pastebin Client class that manages an internal paste list.

Usage

git clone https://git.juggalol.com/agatha/pastebin-client
cd pastebin-client/src
pip install -r requirements.txt
python main.py

Example in src/main.py simply fetches the public paste list and tests out the scraping functions.

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