PBinCLI/README.md

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# PBinCLI

PBinCLI is a command line client for [PrivateBin](https://github.com/PrivateBin/PrivateBin/) written in Python 3.

# Installation

Installing globally using pip3:
```bash
pip3 install pbincli
```

Installing with `virtualenv`:
```bash
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

```ini
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` |
| no_check_certificate | False                   | True / False |
| no_insecure_warning  | False                   | True / False |
| compression          | zlib                    | zlib / none |

# Usage

PBinCLI tool is started with `pbincli` command. Detailed help on command usage is provided with `-h` option:
```bash
pbincli {send|get|delete} -h
```

## Sending

* Sending text:
```bash
pbincli send -t "Hello! This is a test paste!"
```

* Using stdin input to read text into a paste:
```bash
pbincli send - <<EOF
Hello! This is a test paste!
EOF
```

* Sending a file with text attached into a paste:
```bash
pbincli send -f info.pdf -t "I'm sending my document."
```

* Sending a file only with no text attached:
```bash
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:
```bash
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 required `-p` and `-t` options:
```bash
pbincli delete -p xxx -t deletetoken
```

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:
```ini
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:
```bash
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](https://github.com/r4sas/PBinCLI/blob/master/LICENSE) in the root of the project source code.