dpaste is open source. You can find the source, contribute to it and leave ideas on Github: github.com/bartTC/dpaste

API

#!/usr/bin/env python
 
import urllib
import urllib2
import sys
 
def paste_code():
    request = urllib2.Request(
        'http://dpaste.de/api/',
        urllib.urlencode([('content', sys.stdin.read())]),
    )
    response = urllib2.urlopen(request)
    # Strip surrounding quotes (NB: response has no trailing newline)
    print response.read()[1:-1]
 
if __name__ == '__main__':
    paste_code()

Save this script in /usr/local/bin/dpaste and chmod +x ..filepath.

Usage: cat foo.txt | dpaste

Or you could use curl: alias dpaste="curl -F 'content=<-' http://dpaste.de/api/"

Applications using the API:

• dpasteGUI, a OS X interface
• a dpaste Sublime 2 plugin
• Marmalade, a Emacs plugin

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