PBinCLI/README.md

PBinCLI

PBinCLI is a command line client for PrivateBin written in Python 3.

Installation

Installing globally using pip3:

pip3 install pbincli

Installing with virtualenv:

python3 -m virtualenv --python=python3 venv
. venv/bin/activate
pip install pbincli

Note: if you used virtualenv installation method, don't forget to activate your virtual environment before running the tool: call . /path/to/venv/bin/activate in terminal

Configuration

By default PBinCLI is configured to use https://paste.i2pd.xyz/ for sending and receiving pastes. No proxy is used by default.

You can always create a config file to use different settings.

Configuration file is expected to be found in ~/.config/pbincli/pbincli.conf, %APPDATA%/pbincli/pbincli.conf (Windows) and ~/Library/Application Support/pbincli/pbincli.conf (MacOS)

Example of config file content

server=https://paste.i2pd.xyz/
proxy=http://127.0.0.1:3128

List of OPTIONS available

Option	Default	Possible value
server	https://paste.i2pd.xyz/	Domain ending with slash
mirrors	None	Domains separated with comma, like http://privatebin.ygg/,http://privatebin.i2p/
proxy	None	Proxy address starting with scheme http:// or socks5://
expire	1day	5min / 10min / 1hour / 1day / 1week / 1month / 1year / never
burn	False	True / False
discus	False	True / False
format	plaintext	plaintext / syntaxhighlighting / markdown
short	False	True / False
short_api	None	tinyurl, clckru, isgd, vgd, cuttly, yourls, custom
short_url	None	Domain name of shortener service for yourls, or URL (with required parameters) for custom
short_user	None	Used only in yourls
short_pass	None	Used only in yourls
short_token	None	Used only in yourls
output	None	Path to the directory where the received data will be saved
no_check_certificate	False	True / False
no_insecure_warning	False	True / False
compression	zlib	zlib / none
auth	None	basic, custom
auth_user	None	Basic authorization username
auth_pass	None	Basic authorization password
auth_custom	None	Custom authorization headers in JSON format, like {'Authorization': 'Bearer token'}

Usage

PBinCLI tool is started with pbincli command. Detailed help on command usage is provided with -h option:

pbincli {send|get|delete} -h

Sending

• Sending text:

pbincli send -t "Hello! This is a test paste!"

• Using stdin input to read text into a paste:

pbincli send - <<EOF
Hello! This is a test paste!
EOF

• Sending a file with text attached into a paste:

pbincli send -f info.pdf -t "I'm sending my document."

• Sending a file only with no text attached:

pbincli send -q -f info.pdf

Other options

It is also possible to set-up paste parameters such as "burn after reading", expiritaion time, formatting, enabling discussions and changing compression algorithm. Please refer to pbincli send -h output for more information.

Receiving

To retrieve a paste from a server, you need to use get command with the paste info.

Paste info must be formated as pasteID#Passphrase or just use full URL to a paste. Example:

pbincli get "xxx#yyy"                        ### receive paste xxx from https://paste.i2pd.xyz/ by default
pbincli get "https://example.com/?xxx#yyy"   ### receive paste xxx from https://example.com/

Deletion

To delete a paste from a server, use delete command with paste info:

pbincli delete "pasteid=xxx&deletetoken=yyy"                        ### delete paste xxx from https://paste.i2pd.xyz/ by default
pbincli delete "https://example.com/?pasteid=xxx&deletetoken=yyy"   ### delete paste xxx from https://example.com/

If you need to delete a paste on different server than the configured one, use -s option together with the instance URL.

Additional examples

Here you can find additional examples.

Usage with I2P enabled services

Change settings to set server to http://privatebin.i2p/ and proxy to http://127.0.0.1:4444. Configuration file for this example is:

server=http://privatebin.i2p/
proxy=http://127.0.0.1:4444

Using aliases

Example of alias to send a paste from stdin direclty to I2P service:

alias pastei2p="echo 'paste the text to stdin' && pbincli send -s http://privatebin.i2p/ -x http://127.0.0.1:4444 -"

Call it by running pastei2p in terminal.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT license, which can be found in the file LICENSE in the root of the project source code.