# Using bepasty with non-web clients

## pastebinit

pastebinit is a popular pastebin client (included in debian, ubuntu and maybe elsewhere) that can be configured to work with bepasty:

### Configuration

~/.pastebinit.xml:

    <pastebinit>
        <pastebin>https://bepasty.example.org</pastebin>
        <format></format>
    </pastebinit>

Notes:

- we set an empty default format so pastebinit will transmit this (and not its internal format default [which is “text” and completely useless for us as it is not a valid contenttype])

~/.pastebin.d/bepasty.conf:

    [pastebin]
    basename = bepasty.example.org
    regexp = https://bepasty.example.org

    [format]
    content = text
    title = filename
    format = contenttype
    page = page
    password = token

    [defaults]
    page = +upload

### Usage

Simplest:

    echo "test" | pastebinit

More advanced:

    # give title (filename), password, input file
    pastebinit -t example.py -p yourpassword -i example.py

    # read from stdin, give title (filename), give format (contenttype)
    cat README | pastebinit -t README -f text/plain

Notes:

- we use -t (“title”) to transmit the desired filename (we do not have a “title”, but the filename that is used for downloading the pastebin is prominently displayed above the content, so can be considered as title also).

- bepasty guesses the contenttype from the filename given with -t. if you do not give a filename there or the contenttype is not guessable from it, you may need to give -f also (e.g. -f text/plain).

- if you give the contenttype, but not the filename, bepasty will make up a filename.

- you need to use -p if the bepasty instance you use requires you to log in before you can create pastebins.