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I've recently tried to use the following code to send paste to pastebin.com:

https://github.com/mefuckin/pastebin-shell/blob/master/pbin

What I've noticed with that script is that it doesn't appear to send api_user_key. Line 183 has it listed:

--data "api_user_key=$api_user_key" \

so I though it would just be a matter of specifying its value, as:

api_user_key="VALUE HERE"

and that would send it to the API. However, I'm unsure of what that part of the code does (part of code that starts at 174): 

[ $logintopastebin -ne 0 ] && auth_user api_paste_code=$( cat - ) curl -0 --show-error \ --data "api_dev_key=$api_dev_key" \ --data "api_option=paste" \ --data "api_paste_code=$api_paste_code" \ --data "api_paste_format=$api_paste_format" \ --data "api_paste_private=$api_paste_private" \ --data "api_paste_expire_date=$api_paste_expire_date" \ --data "api_user_key=$api_user_key" \ --data-urlencode "api_paste_name=$api_paste_name" \ --data-urlencode "api_paste_code=$api_paste_code" \ "$api_url/api_post.php"

Does this portion of the code mean that all these arguments will be sent to the API?

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The code does send the api_user_key. It may send an empty string if the variable is not set. The script contains code to find the user key by querying the server in the function auth_user, but that function is only called if you set logintopastebin to a nonzero value at the beginning or if you pass one of the options -u or -l on the command line. You can override the value by setting the variable api_user_key manually after or instead of the call to auth_user, before the call to curl, e.g.

api_user_key=$(cat ~/.passwords/pastebin/api_user_key) … if [ -z "$api_user_key" ] && [ "$logintopastebin" -eq 0 ]; then auth_user fi api_paste_code=$( cat - ) curl -0 --show-error \ …

If you don't understand what the script is doing, add set -x as the second line to make it print a trace of each line as it gets executed.

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  • Thank you! It appears that even though I am setting api_user_key and even though I'm setting both -u and -l, the API still isn't recognising it, as it doesn't allow me to perform the requests that are tied to the api_user_key. Maybe that's something for pastebin.com ... :/ Commented Apr 9, 2017 at 16:41
  • Disregard my last comment. Using the code you supplied and setting up api_user_key definitely worked and the "privileges" that are given via it were applied. Thank you. Commented Apr 9, 2017 at 17:11

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