this is a simple parser for the pastebin.com website.

it will iterate posts and parse their elements using lxml

pypi link

pip install simple-pastebin-parser

import simple_pastebin_parser

for paste in simple_pastebin_parser.get_pastes():
    print("Title: ", paste.Title)
    print("Author: ", paste.Author)
    print("date: ", paste.Date)
    print("Content: ")
    print(paste.Content)
    print("*" * 20)

initial proof of concept. nothing special, just doing the dirty work of parsing the posts.

how to execute:

1. create a virtual env of python 3.6
2. install requirements
3. run python poc.py

• integration with travis.ci

• changing the POC code to work with installed pypi package

• created the Paste() object for pastebin posts
• ability to stream data

• small fixes

• update README

• added documentation
• cleaned most pep8 issues
• some tests

• parse date in UTC
• add some logs
• add id to Paste()

• cleanups