pbcli

pbcli is a command line client which allows to upload and download pastes from privatebin directly from the command line.

It is dual licensed under MIT or the UNLICENSE.

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Installation

You can find pre-compiled binaries under the release tab in github.

For Archlinux, it is available inside the AUR.

Building

pbcli is written in Rust, so you will need a rust toolchain to build it.

git clone https://github.com/Mydayyy/pbcli.git cd pbcli cargo build --release ./target/release/pbcli --version

User Guide

pbcli is simple to use and only involves a few flags. The only needed argument is either the positional argument URL or the option flag host. If both are provided the positional argument URL takes precedence. To avoid specifying the host / url everytime you can take advantage of a config file as described here.

When posting a paste you can specify --json to receive post details. The output includes the base58 encoded key used to encrypt/decrypt the paste and can be used to construct the paste url.

Example output: ``` {"deletetoken":"ajae8c36aa945ff93a04bef4ff08fa505f96d49e1z28eb09a36l797c2eaeg952", "id":"e6a227cfbc0fec3e", "status":0, "url":"/?e6a227cfbc0fec3e", "bs58key":"31rvVHezWQH7sh7tgZGxfQJGKK4WLLCwFBL64Jr5nhLu"}

```

Example usages to get a paste:

pbcli https://privatebin.net/?f37ca34e72e2ef77#G8wFGVnpSb4pogzGbMMcgbDgeYkQ5cfcWkcsVwTQJmzd ``` pbcli --host https://privatebin.net/?f37ca34e72e2ef77#G8wFGVnpSb4pogzGbMMcgbDgeYkQ5cfcWkcsVwTQJmzd

```

Example usages to post a new poste

echo 'TestPaste' | pbcli --host https://privatebin.net/ echo 'TestPaste' | pbcli https://privatebin.net/ --json echo 'TestPaste' | pbcli --host https://privatebin.net/ --expire=1hour echo '## Title\nSome Markdown' | pbcli https://privatebin.net/ --format markdown echo 'TestPaste' | pbcli --host https://privatebin.net/ --burn

CLI Help:

``` pbcli 2.0

Mydayyy dev@mydayyy.eu

pbcli is a command line client which allows to upload and download pastes from privatebin directly from the command line.

Project home page: https://github.com/X

USAGE: pbcli [OPTIONS] [URL]

ARGS:

OPTIONS: --burn
--discussion
--expire [default: 1week] --format [default: plaintext] [possible values: plaintext, syntax, markdown] -h, --help Print help information --host
--json
--password
-V, --version Print version information ```

Configuration File

pbcli supports a configuration file to fine tune the default behaviour. You need to set the environment variable PBCLI_CONFIG_PATH to a file path. The file needs to contain flags you want to pass to pbcli, one per line. Lines starting with a # are ignored. An useful case for this may be setting a default instance to use by setting the --host argument.

Instead of typing echo 'test' | pbcli https://privatebin.net/ you'll only need to type echo 'test' | pbcli

Example config: --host=https://privatebin.net/ --expire=1month

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