PBAPI - An API to access the pastebin api!

Hello! I made a computercraft API that allows you to easily make pastebin API requests!
It doesn't have very good error handling right now, but I will update it so that it does.
You can download it here: http://pastebin.com/MpZXv6Hz
You can get a devkey to use it here: http://pastebin.com/api
Here are some examples:

--Logging in and doing stuff.
os.loadAPI("pbapi")
--Pastebin with or without using its API sends passwords in plaintext which you can see if you use wireshark. Sign up with a password you don't use normally!'
local h = pbapi.getUserHandle("your api devkey here","any username here","password for that user")
--Creating a paste:
local url = h.newPaste("paste content here")
--Creating a paste with optional parameters
--0: Public, 1: Unlisted, 2: Private
--Languages are at http://pastebin.com/api#5
--Only certain expire strings are allowed, http://pastebin.com/api#6
local otherurl = h.newPaste("NSString* gato = [[Person getCat] description]","migato (paste title)",2,"objc","10M")
--Listing pastes:
print(textutils.serialise(pbapi.listPastes()))
--Listing trending pastes:
print(textutils.serialise(pbapi.listTrending()))
--Listing user details:
print(textutils.serialise(pbapi.userDetails()))
--Deleting a paste:
h.deletePaste("paste key that belongs to user")
--Finally, reading a paste.
local data = h.rawPaste("public or unlisted paste key, or private paste key belonging to the user.")

There is also pbapi.getGuestHandle which behaves the same, but functions like listPastes that require to be logged in will not work.

I've used something like this for PasteCCan, which is a CC pastebin client. Only problem being that it cannot edit, because the Pastebin API doesn't have a function for editing pastes. If you could hack together a way to edit pastes,I'll look into using this API rather than the one I'm using now.

In regards to editing pastes, I've put a bit of research into that myself - but came up dry.

Bomb Bloke, on 03 November 2016 - 04:24 AM said:

In regards to editing pastes, I've put a bit of research into that myself - but came up dry.

Arrrr, one would think it'd be in the Pastebin API, but nooooo…

I sent them an email a couple of weeks ago about this. It is "on their roadmap" but they don't have an ETA. So 6 to 8 weeks I guess.

Huh. And here I thought they had some intentional reason to withhold the feature.

Actually I'm still not convinced that they don't, and that they simply don't want to explain themselves.

How would I detect if a file request failed? For example:

function updateFile(pasteList, Name)
    for i=1,#pasteList  do
	    if (pasteList[i].title:lower() == Name:lower()) then
		    local pasteData = pasteHandle.rawPaste(pasteList[i].key)
		    local file = fs.open(Name, "w")
		    file.writeLine(pasteData)
		    file.close()
		    return true
	    end
    end
    return false
end

Would just overwrite any file with nothing if it failed to grab the raw data, correct?

If you want to collect raw paste data, you may be better off doing it directly via the http API. PBAPI would likely not empty your files, as it'd error before that - but unless you pcall rawPaste(), you won't be able to handle the problem yourself.

Something along these lines maybe:

function updateFile(pasteList, Name)
	for i = 1, #pasteList do
		if pasteList[i].title:lower() == Name:lower() then
			local webHandle = http.get("http://pastebin.com/raw/" .. pasteList[i].key)

			if webHandle then
				local file = fs.open(Name, "w")
				file.writeLine(webHandle.readAll())
				file.close()
				webHandle.close()
				return true
			else
				-- Connection failed; call "error" with a descriptive message or return false or something.
			end
		end
	end
	
	return false
end