610766 - Request to allow POSTs to pastebin.mozilla.org

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(mozilla.org Graveyard :: Server Operations, task)

Description

[Aakash Desai [:aakashd]]

Pastebin.com offers a API to post to their website (i.e. http://pastebin.com/api.php). I didn't see the same functionality in pastebin.mozilla.org though, can we open this piece of functionality to our version?

My reasoning: To be able to pastebin build id, lists of extension and contents of about:support from nightly tester tools to pastebin.mozilla.org. It'd be a really useful tool.

Comment 1

[Jeff Hammel]

I'd love this for my own purposes too; I have a pastebin script (http://k0s.org/hg/config/file/93cc3245bf2b/python/pastebin.py) that I use heavily for (mostly) intra-mozilla communication.  I'd love to point this to pastebin.mozilla, but would need this API change.

[point of order: note how short this script is]

Comment 2

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

pastebin.mozilla.org is not the same thing as pastebin.com. There's no API or special POST switch or anything that can be turned on for pastebin.mozilla.org. pastebin.com's code is closed source, so we can't just use it either. Sorry guys...

If you find some good pastebin software that works better than the ugly stuff that is on pastebin.mozilla.org, I'm sure IT would love to hear about it.

Comment 3

[Jeremy Orem [:oremj]]

If you just need to pastebin from a script you can do something like this: https://github.com/oremj/pastebinit/blob/master/pastebinit.py

Comment 4

[Aakash Desai [:aakashd]]

You're right, Reed. I found 3-4 other pastebin-like open-source projects, but they pail in comparison to the original. We can try copying information over to pastebin.com or tinypaste.com in the meantime until a better solution pops up. Thanks!

Comment 5

[Aakash Desai [:aakashd]]

Hey now, here's a pastebin clone with a restful API: 

https://github.com/bartTC/django-paste

..and its in Django!

Comment 6

[Justin Dow [:jabba]]

Can we resolve this WORKSFORME based on comment 3, which appears to fulfill the original request? If the project in comment 5 is desired, please file a new bug to get that set up, which will need some justification, security reviews and general planning and build-out.

Comment 7

[ewen8]

http://pastebin.mozilla.org/2052645

I hope this has worked.