In the #PowerShell IRC channel (on irc.freenode.net) we have a bot and pastebin (which is set up here on my site) ... if you paste something in the pastebin site, the bot posts a link to it in the IRC channel for you, so you don’t have to mess with copying the resulting URL and pasting it to the channel to ask for help.
I also run a version of pastebin that’s been modified for long term storage as the main PowerShell Script Repository (which is, among other things, the main repository for the PowerShell Community).
So, when someone showed me sprunge earlier today, along with a python script for pasting there … I couldn’t help but think that it would be nice to have that for our pastebin sites… so here it is, Send-Paste
## Send-Paste.ps1 (aka sprunge for Pastebin)
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## Uploads code to any pastebin.com based pastebin site and returns the url for you.
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## Usage:
## get-content myscript.ps1 | Send-Paste "An example for you" "This is just to show how to do it"
## would send the script with the specified title and description
## ls *.ps1 | Send-Paste -Keep Forever
## would flood the pastebin site with all your scripts, using filename as the title
## and a generic description, and mark them for storing indefinitely
## get-history -count 5 | % { $_.CommandLine } | Send-Paste
## would paste the last 5 commands in your history!
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## History:
## v 2.0 - works with "pastebin" (including http://posh.jaykul.com/p/ and http://PowerShellCentral.com/Scripts/)
## v 1.0 - Worked with a special pastebin
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#function Send-Paste {
param(
$Title,
$Description="Automated paste from PowerShell console",
$KeepFor="d",
$Language="posh",
$Author = $(Read-Host "Your name"),
$url="http://posh.jaykul.com/p/"
)
BEGIN {
$null = [Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.Web")
[string]$data = $null;
[string]$meta = $null;
if($language) {
$meta = "format=" + [System.Web.HttpUtility]::UrlEncode($language)
# $url = $url + "?" +$lang
} else {
$meta = "format=text"
}
do {
switch -regex ($KeepFor) {
"^d.*" { $meta += "&expiry=d" }
"^m.*" { $meta += "&expiry=m" }
"^f.*" { $meta += "&expiry=f" }
default {
$KeepFor = Read-Host "Invalid value for 'KeepFor' parameter. Please specify 'day', 'month', or 'forever'"
}
}
} until ( $meta -like "*&expiry*" )
if($Description) {
$meta += "&descrip=" + [System.Web.HttpUtility]::UrlEncode($Description)
} else {
$meta += "&descrip="
}
$meta += "&poster=" + [System.Web.HttpUtility]::UrlEncode($Author)
function PasteBin-Text ($meta, $title, $data) {
$meta += "&paste=Send&posttitle=" + [System.Web.HttpUtility]::UrlEncode($Title)
$data = $meta + "&code2=" + [System.Web.HttpUtility]::UrlEncode($data)
# Write-Host $data -fore yellow
$request = [System.Net.WebRequest]::Create($url)
$request.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
$request.ContentLength = $data.Length
$request.Method = "POST"
$post = new-object IO.StreamWriter $request.GetRequestStream()
$post.Write($data,0,$data.Length)
$post.Flush()
$post.Close()
# $reader = new-object IO.StreamReader $request.GetResponse().GetResponseStream() ##,[Text.Encoding]::UTF8
# write-output $reader.ReadToEnd()
# $reader.Close()
write-output $request.GetResponse().ResponseUri.AbsoluteUri
$request.Abort()
}
}
PROCESS {
switch($_) {
{$_ -is [System.IO.FileInfo]} {
$Title = $_.Name
Write-Output $_.FullName
Write-Output $(PasteBin-Text $meta $Title $([string]::join("`n",(Get-Content $_.FullName))))
}
{$_ -is [String]} {
if(!$data -and !$Title){
$Title = Read-Host "Give us a title for your post"
}
$data += "`n" + $_
}
## Todo, handle folders?
default {
Write-Error "Unable to process $_"
}
}
}
END {
if($data) {
Write-Output $(PasteBin-Text $meta $Title $data)
}
}
#}
Incidentally, the matching “Receive-Paste” script is just a matter wrapping a call to my wget for powershell in a script that lets you put just the ID in, and builds a url like http://powershellcentral.com/scripts/?dl=172 (notice the ?dl= part, that’s the important part) ...