Pastebin API -- Java

This library uses the official Pastebin API to read information from Pastebin.

Go to the release page to download the jar file

Fast examples

Read paste content

final PastebinFactory factory = new PastebinFactory();
final Pastebin pastebin = factory.createPastebin(DEV_KEY);
final String pasteKey = "LAZD9ZCs";
final Response<String> pasteResponse = pastebin.getRawPaste(pasteKey);
if (pasteResponse.hasError()) {
  System.out.println("Unable to read paste content!");
  return;
}
System.out.println(pasteResponse.get());

Read trending pastes

final PastebinFactory factory = new PastebinFactory();
final Pastebin pastebin = factory.createPastebin(DEV_KEY);
final Response<String> pasteResponse = pastebin.getTrendingPastes();
if (pasteResponse.hasError()) {
  System.out.println("Unable to read trendings!");
  return;
}
final List<Paste> pastes = pasteResponse.get();
for(Paste paste : pastes) {
  System.out.println("Paste title: " + paste.getTitle());
}

Getting started

Examples

Check this file for a complete working example.

How to get data from Pastebin?

Using Pastebin class you can get informations from Pastebin.

You can create a Pastebin object using PastebinFactory which will be useful to create a Paste object too.

final PastebinFactory factory = new PastebinFactory();
final Pastebin pastebin = factory.createPastebin(DEV_KEY);

In the createPastebin method you should pass your dev key (be sure to login in Pastebin to read it)

NOTE createPastebin doesn't check if the key passed to the method is valid or not.

Now you can use your Pastebin instance to do everythng you want: posting a paste, get treading pastes, get a user key, delete a paste etc..

Every request to Pastebin is wrapped inside a Response<T> object. It will be used to know if your request has been completed with success or not.

To post a Paste you will use the PastebinFactory to let it create a PasteBuilder object for you. You will use this Builder to insert Paste information

// get a pastebuilder to build the paste I want to publish
final PasteBuilder pasteBuilder = factory.createPaste();

// Title paste
pasteBuilder.setTitle("My first paste");
// What will be inside the paste?
pasteBuilder.setRaw("My first Paste published using Pastebin Java API");
// Which syntax will use the paste?
pasteBuilder.setMachineFriendlyLanguage("text");
// What is the visibility of this paste?
pasteBuilder.setVisiblity(PasteVisiblity.Public);
// When the paste will expire?
pasteBuilder.setExpire(PasteExpire.TenMinutes);

NOTE PasteBuilder return an instance of itself to allow you to chain calls.

With the above code I create a Paste with the title My first paste, with text content My first Paste published using Pastebin Java API, using the syntax text, visibility Public and it will expire in ten minutes.

Our Paste is ready.

final Paste paste = pasteBuilder.build();

using .build() method we create the Paste object which will be passed to pastebin.post to post it.

final Response<String> postResult = pastebin.post(paste);

if (postResult.hasError()) {
  System.out.println("Si è verificato un errore mentre postavo il paste: " + postResult.getError());
  return;
}

System.out.println("Paste pubblicato! Url: " + postResult.get());

It will execute a request to Pastebin which will try to post the Paste.

If something went wrong, hasError will return true, and using .getError() you will get the reason.

If everything is OK, get() will contains the object you asked.

post() method returns the paste key.

The same logic will apply to everything else in the API.