Β« Interact with https://rentry.co and/or https://rentry.org, a markdown pastebin-like service that allows custom url, password to edit and remove Β»
The library is around ~300 lines of code and has been made to be simple, lightweight. There is only one dependency which is:
This dependency is needed because the JSON Api of https://rentry.co doesn't allow everything (like deleting a file, modifying it's url and/or code) And so I need to use the HTML/Form Api which requires to get back the errors through HTML Source and here's how AngleSharp helps me to parse it
As stated before, this library is made to be simple, so there is only one class that lets you interact with the service!
Quick pseudo-code to see the whole structure of the class 'Paste':
class Paste: // - Some static stuff static Uri RentryUri; // Uri of the service that will be used static HttpClientHandler HttpClientHandler; static HttpClient HttpClient; // - Properties // Can be null to get a random value on next create string? Id; string? Password; // - Constructors // Initialize a Paste that will have a random Id/Password on the next Create call Paste(); // Initialize a Paste to which you will only be able to see it's content Paste(string id); // Initialize a Paste to which you will be able to see it's content, edit and remove it Paste(string id, string password); // - Actions (async and non async versions!) // Get the content of the Paste string Text; or string GetTextAsync(); // Create the Paste on Rentry void Create(string text); or string CreateAsync(string text); // Edit the Paste on Rentry (let any value to null to keep the previous one) void Edit(string? id, string? password, string? text) or void EditAsync(string? id, string? password, string? text) // Delete the Paste void Delete(); or void DeleteAsync(); // Determines if the Paste exists bool Exists; or bool ExistsAsync();
(All the code is documented, so if you need more informations, just check it out!)
// Create a paste with a random id/password Paste rentryPaste = new Paste(); rentryPaste.Create("Creating a paste on https://rentry.co using RentrySharp"); Console.WriteLine($"Created a Paste with Id={rentryPaste.Id} and Password={rentryPaste.Password} (Uri={rentryPaste.Uri})"); // Wait for the user to press enter Console.WriteLine("Press ENTER to delete the Paste"); Console.ReadLine(); rentryPaste.Delete();
// Get the paste (https://rentry.co/rentrysharp) Paste rentryPaste = new Paste("rentrysharp", "pastePassword"); // Edit it's password (other values are null so I keep the Paste's content and id!) rentryPaste.Edit(password: "myNewPassword"); Console.WriteLine($"Check the Paste and it's new password here: {rentryPaste.Uri}");
// Get the paste (https://rentry.co/rentrysharp) Paste rentryPaste = new Paste("rentrysharp"); // If the paste exists if (rentryPaste.Exists) { // Write it's content Console.WriteLine(rentryPaste.Text); } else Console.WriteLine($"Sadly... the Paste '{rentryPaste.Id}' doesn't exist!");