Added sample api scripts to docs.

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Martin Mahner 2014-01-11 16:03:50 +01:00
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@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ do is a simple ``POST`` request to the API endpoint ``/api/``::
Available POST data for an API call:
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``content`` (required)
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@ -54,3 +54,31 @@ Optional. The format of the API response. Choices are:
history page since they are related to a browser session.
.. _lexer list: https://github.com/bartTC/dpaste/blob/master/dpaste/highlight.py#L25
Example code snippets:
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A sample Python 2 script to publish snippets::
#!/usr/bin/env python
import urllib
import urllib2
import sys
def paste_code():
request = urllib2.Request(
'https://dpaste.de/api/',
urllib.urlencode([('content', sys.stdin.read())]),
)
response = urllib2.urlopen(request)
# Strip surrounding quotes (NB: response has no trailing newline)
print response.read()[1:-1]
if __name__ == '__main__':
paste_code()
You can simply use curl to publish a whole file::
$ alias dpaste="curl -F 'content=<-' https://dpaste.de/api/"
$ cat foo.txt | dpaste