pb is a lightweight pastebin (and url shortener) built using flask.
Create a new paste from the output of cmd:
cmd | curl -F c=@- https://ptpb.pw/
A HTML form is also provided for convenience paste and file-uploads from web browsers.
No really, how in the name of Gandalf's beard does this actually work? Show me!
Create a paste from the output of 'dmesg':
$ dmesg | curl -F c=@- https://ptpb.pw/ long: AGhkV6JANmmQRVssSUzFWa_0VNyq sha1: 686457a240366990455b2c494cc559aff454dcaa short: VNyq url: https://ptpb.pw/VNyq uuid: 17c5829d-81a0-4eb6-8681-ba72f83ffbf3
Or, if you only care about getting the url back:
$ dmesg | curl -F c=@- https://ptpb.pw/?u=1 https://ptpb.pw/VNyq
Take that paste, and replace it with a picture of a baby skunk:
$ curl -X PUT -F c=@- https://ptpb.pw/17c5829d-81a0-4eb6-8681-ba72f83ffbf3 < baby-skunk.jpg https://ptpb.pw/ullp updated.
Append '.jpg' to hint at browsers that they should probably display a jpeg image:
https://ptpb.pw/ullp.jpg
Actually, that picture is already on imgur; let's delete that paste and make a shorturl instead:
$ curl -X DELETE https://ptpb.pw/17c5829d-81a0-4eb6-8681-ba72f83ffbf3 https://ptpb.pw/ullp deleted.
$ curl -F c=@- https://ptpb.pw/u <<< https://i.imgur.com/CT7DWCA.jpg https://ptpb.pw/qYTr
Well, it is shorter..
Put my latest 'hax.py' script on pb:
$ curl -F c=@- https://ptpb.pw/ < hax.py long: AEnOPO7bF9Qyyt_WUltBlYWHs_-G sha1: 49ce3ceedb17d432cadfd6525b41958587b3ff86 short: s_-G url: https://ptpb.pw/2AcJ uuid: bfd41875-dcac-4b6b-92e9-97a55d4f8d89
Now I want to syntax highlight and draw attention to one particular line:
https://ptpb.pw/2AcJ/py#L-7
Perhaps we have some super sekrit thing that we don't want be be guessable by base66 id:
$ curl -F c=@- -F p=1 https://ptpb.pw/ < SEKRIT_hax.py long: ACCzjDcun9TqySwSUjy_yRpGxWIK sha1: 20b38c372e9fd4eac92c12523cbfc91a46c5620a short: xWIK url: https://ptpb.pw/ACCzjDcun9TqySwSUjy_yRpGxWIK uuid: 876e09b5-09d4-454c-8570-b627af54abd1
Witness the gloriousness:
$ curl -F c=@- https://ptpb.pw/~polyzen <<< "boats and hoes" long: AEz1_jLk-awIvq73RxQq_n1aQ46a sha1: 4cf5fe32e4f9ac08beaef747142afe7d5a438e9a short: Q46a url: https://ptpb.pw/~polyzen uuid: ab505051-0766-41dd-85d9-e739e62de58d $ curl https://ptpb.pw/~polyzen boats and hoes
Create a paste that self destructs in 2 minutes:
$ echo "This message will self-destruct in two minutes" | curl -F sunset=120 -F c=@- https://ptpb.pw/ date: 2016-03-22T17:15:50.396279+00:00 digest: 3a9c705adf9a941b175631a5e6f11eb575f067e6 long: ADqccFrfmpQbF1YxpebxHrV18Gfm short: 8Gfm size: 46 status: created sunset: 2016-03-22T17:17:50.395045+00:00 url: https://ptpb.pw/8Gfm uuid: 751f7e0b-7ce1-4b81-852b-57c5844e8d3a $ curl https://ptpb.pw/8Gfm This message will self-destruct in two minutes $ sleep 2m $ curl https://ptpb.pw/8Gfm date: 2016-03-22T17:15:50.396000+00:00 digest: 3a9c705adf9a941b175631a5e6f11eb575f067e6 long: ADqccFrfmpQbF1YxpebxHrV18Gfm short: 8Gfm size: 46 status: expired sunset: 2016-03-22T17:17:50.395000+00:00 url: https://ptpb.pw/8Gfm
Create and upload a recording using asciinema:
$ asciinema rec term.json ~ Asciicast recording started. ~ Hit Ctrl-D or type "exit" to finish. $ echo tralalalala tralalalala $ exit ~ Asciicast recording finished. $ curl -F c=@term.json https://ptpb.pw/ digest: f9704e9ae63bb5f5aad145a871f260557673d185 long: APlwTprmO7X1qtFFqHHyYFV2c9GF short: c9GF status: created url: https://ptpb.pw/c9GF uuid: 9dffb318-04f5-437c-9899-6e7c7eed04af
Then watch the playback with the t handler (https://ptpb.pw/t/c9GF in this case).
Warning
This feature is considered highly experimental, and its API/semantics changed in subtle but signtificant ways in the future
First you'll need a DNS name that points to the pb instance you want to use namespaces with.
Start by creating a new namespace:
$ curl -X POST https://ptpb.pw/n/buh.io name: buh.io status: created uuid: 326117ad-2969-4a0a-a3d7-04eef09127ab
With the namespace uuid, you can modify any paste in that namespace. Namespace pastes are a little different in that they are always referenced by label; while sids and uuids exist internally, no route can access namespace'ed pastes that way.
You authorized yourself via the X-Namespace-Auth header:
$ auth=326117ad-2969-4a0a-a3d7-04eef09127ab $ curl -H "X-Namespace-Auth: $auth" -F c=@- https://buh.io/foo <<< loltrain date: 2016-01-17 02:52:29.179089 digest: 7bcbab9cb9dbf26c5cdbf02e1f67f93fdb6237ea label: foo namespace: buh.io status: created url: http://buh.io/foo uuid: 5f9dc40c-35df-4298-977c-6baeeb56bed1
You'll notice we access the namespace via its DNS name instead of the 'real' pb domain name. This is what internally allows you to use the special namespace labels, which have relaxed restrictions: they can be any length (including zero-length), and don't need to start with a tilde.
DELETE and PUT work as usual, except you reference the paste via namespace+label instead of uuid.
Like it? Here's some convenience shell functions:
pb () { curl -F "c=@${1:--}" https://ptpb.pw/ }
This uploads paste content stdin unless an argument is provided, otherwise uploading the specified file.
Now just:
$ command | pb $ pb filename
A slightly more elaborate variant:
pbx () { curl -sF "c=@${1:--}" -w "%{redirect_url}" 'https://ptpb.pw/?r=1' -o /dev/stderr | xsel -l /dev/null -b }
This uses xsel to set the CLIPBOARD selection with the url of the uploaded paste for immediate regurgitation elsewhere.
How about uploading a screenshot then throwing the URL in your clipboard?
pbs () { gm import -window ${1:-root} /tmp/$$.png pbx /tmp/$$.png }
Now you can:
$ pbs $ pbs 0
The second command would allow you to select an individual window while the first uses the root window.
Perhaps we'd like to do the terminal recording with a single command.
pbs () { asciinema rec /tmp/$$.json pbx /tmp/$$.json }
View the recording by prepending a t/ to the paste id.
There are some native clients for interacting with pb, below are the ones we know of: