How to paste data to pastebin using the api in php? - php

Question

<?php
/* gets the data from a URL */
function get_data($url)
{
$ch = curl_init();
$timeout = 5;
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,$url);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,$timeout);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
return $data;
}
$paste_data=""; if(isset($_POST["paste_code"])) { $paste_data = $_POST["paste_code"]; }
echo $paste_data;
$returned_content = get_data('http://pastebin.com/api_public.php/paste_code(paste_data)');
echo $returned_content;
?>
This is my php code . where $paste_data contains the data to be pasted in a new page . How do I paste it using the function paste_code(String) ?

Answer 1

The documentation says that you need to submit a POST request to
http://pastebin.com/api_public.php
and the only mandatory parameter is paste_code, of type string is the paste that you want to make.
On success a new pastebin URL will be returned.
Bare bone example:
$ch = curl_init("http://pastebin.com/api_public.php");
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
// A new paste with the string "hello there SO"
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "paste_code=hello there SO");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY, 0);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
echo $response;
and on running I get:
> POST http://pastebin.com/api_public.php HTTP/1.1
Host: pastebin.com
Accept: */*
Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Length: 25
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Transfer-Encoding: chunked
< Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 07:51:12 GMT
< Content-Type: text/plain
< Server: nginx/0.8.52
< Vary: Accept-Encoding
< X-Powered-By: PHP/5.3.4-dev
< Via: 1.1 apac-nc06 (NetCache NetApp/6.0.6)
<
http://pastebin.com/Lc7kAw8Z* Closing connection #0
Clearly the response has the URL http://pastebin.com/Lc7kAw8Z
Visit it and you'll see a new paste containing hello there SO

Answer 2

FYI for others looking at this "post 2013", the api_public.php POST has been discontinued.

Answer 3

For those who stumple upon this thread via seach, here is a code that works in 2013:
<?php
$data = 'Hello World!';
$apiKey = 'xxxxxxx'; // get it from pastebin.com
$postData = array(
'api_dev_key' => $apiKey, // your dev key
'api_option' => 'paste', // action to perform
'api_paste_code' => utf8_decode($data), // the paste text
'api_paste_private' => '1', // 0=public 1=unlisted 2=private
'api_paste_expire_date' => '1D', // paste expires in 1 day
);
$ch = curl_init('http://pastebin.com/api/api_post.php');
curl_setopt_array($ch, array(
CURLOPT_POST => 1,
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => http_build_query($postData),
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => 1,
));
$re = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
$pasteId = end(explode('/', $re));
echo "Created new paste.\r\n Link:\t{$re}\r\n Raw:\t" . sprintf('http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=%s', $pasteId) . "\r\n";