coh2 / pastycake

Search paste services for keywords using python

Purpose

Search through Paste services such as pastebin.com for interesting pastes based on keywords

Supported Pastes

• pastebin.com
• pastie.org

License

3-Clause "New" BSD License , see the file LICENSE.rst for details.

Files

• pastycake-snatch.py - outputs to the command line and uses the tracker.txt file to monitor previously seen URLs
• pastycake-harvest.py - stores data inside of SQLite instead of a text file

Plans

• Create easy way to add in keywords (done)
• Replace nesting with generators (done)
• Add in emailer (done)

pastycake's Issues

Web dashbord for latest matches.

Title says it all.

Given that it isn't a core feature, a stand-alone repo would make sense, no?

option parsing mess

Python 2.7 deprecates optparse in vavor of argparse which has been introduced in the same version, too.
Python < 2.7 (like 2.6) doesn't sport argparse but optparse instead.
Python 3.1 doesn't yield a single search result argparse but ships with optparse.
Python 3.2 comes with argparse and deprecates optparse

What to do about this mess?

switch from distutils to distribute

distribute would allow these things that seem to be amiss (grep -R -l entry_point ~/Doc/Python-2.7.1, grep -R -l entry_point /usr/lib{,64}/python2.7/ | grep distutil) from distutils:

• entry points (one could remove harvest.py from the source but it would still be an executable upon install [1])
• entry points (in order to allow add-ons/extensions/plugins/ [2])
• entry points (requirements spec for extras that are bundled with the package [3]), and finally
• entry points (execute an egg without having to install it [4])

[5] recommends to either use distutils or distribute, so we're safe anyhow.

[1] http://packages.python.org/distribute/setuptools.html?highlight=entry_points#automatic-script-creation
[2] http://packages.python.org/distribute/setuptools.html?highlight=entry_points#dynamic-discovery-of-services-and-plugins
[3] http://packages.python.org/distribute/setuptools.html?highlight=entry_points#declaring-extras-optional-features-with-their-own-dependencies
[4] http://packages.python.org/distribute/setuptools.html?highlight=entry_points#eggsecutable-scripts
[5] http://guide.python-distribute.org/introduction.html#current-state-of-packaging, 2nd paragraph, last sentence.