📝 RentrySharp

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« Interact with https://rentry.co and/or https://rentry.org, a markdown pastebin-like service that allows custom url, password to edit and remove »

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The library is around ~300 lines of code and has been made to be simple, lightweight. There is only one dependency which is:

• AngleSharp

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

🚀 Quick Start

As stated before, this library is made to be simple, so there is only one class that lets you interact with the service!

Paste

Structure

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!)

Examples

Create and Delete

// 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();

Edit

// 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}");

Exists and GetText

// 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!");