Pastebin API

Name: Pastebin API API
Brand: Pastebin API
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★ Only Publicly Available OpenAPI DocumentDeveloper ToolsSource Controlnone3 EndpointsREST

For Agents

Create, list, and retrieve pastes on Pastebin.com with visibility controls, expiry settings, and syntax highlighting for 200+ languages. Authenticate users to manage their paste collections.

Connect the Pastebin API to your agent

Jentic One is a self-hosted execution layer for AI agents. It lets your agent call the Pastebin API, or any other public or private API you need. You set the rules, the agent never sees your credentials, and every call is logged.

Install Jentic One Beta (Self-Hosted)

Jentic One Host machine

# On the machine that will host your Jentic One instance:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jentic/jentic-one/main/tools/install.sh | sh

Agent machine

# On the machine where your agent runs (keep this separate from the instance):
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jentic/jentic-one/main/tools/install.sh | sh
jentic register       # connects your agent to your Jentic One instance

Jentic One is in public beta. The setup above keeps your agent separate from the instance, which is what you want before using real credentials: an agent running as the same OS user as Jentic One can read its stored keys directly. Just evaluating? A single local install is fine to start. See the secure deployment guide for the tiers.

Capabilities

What an agent can do with Pastebin API API.

Create pastes with public, unlisted, or private visibility settings

Set paste expiration from 10 minutes to never-expire

Apply syntax highlighting from over 200 supported languages

Authenticate users to access their paste collections

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Start building with Pastebin API API

Explore with Jentic

View OpenAPI Document

Jentic publishes the only available OpenAPI document for Pastebin API, keeping it validated and agent-ready.

Jentic publishes the only available OpenAPI specification for Pastebin API, keeping it validated and agent-ready. The Pastebin API provides programmatic access to the largest public text storage and sharing service, offering 3 POST endpoints for user authentication, paste creation with visibility and expiry controls, and raw paste content retrieval. It supports creating public, unlisted, and private pastes with configurable expiration periods and syntax highlighting for over 200 programming languages.

Use Cases

Patterns agents use Pastebin API API for, with concrete tasks.

★ Code Sharing with Visibility Controls

Create text pastes with configurable visibility (public, unlisted, or private) through the Pastebin API. Public pastes appear in the site's recent paste feed, unlisted pastes are accessible only via direct URL, and private pastes require user authentication. Each paste can include syntax highlighting for any of 200+ supported languages and a title for identification.

Create an unlisted paste via POST /api_post.php with api_paste_private=1, api_paste_format=python, and api_paste_expire_date=1H

Automated Paste Lifecycle Management

Authenticate with the Pastebin API to manage a user's paste collection programmatically. After obtaining a session key via the login endpoint, you can list all pastes, retrieve their raw content, or delete pastes that are no longer needed. Expiry settings provide automatic cleanup, but manual deletion is available for immediate removal of sensitive content.

Authenticate via POST /api_login.php to get a user_key, then list all user pastes via POST /api_post.php with api_option=list

Temporary Credential and Config Sharing

Share temporary configuration files or credentials via Pastebin with short expiry periods. Create a private paste with a 10-minute expiration so the content auto-deletes after the recipient retrieves it. The paste key is returned immediately and can be shared through secure channels for one-time access.

Create a private paste with 10-minute expiry via POST /api_post.php with api_paste_private=2, api_paste_expire_date=10M, containing the configuration content

AI Agent Paste Operations via Jentic

AI agents create and manage Pastebin pastes through Jentic to share code output, logs, or generated content during automated workflows. Jentic provides operation discovery and handles the multi-parameter POST body construction, including developer key injection, visibility settings, and expiry configuration without agents needing to memorize the form-encoded parameter names.

Search Jentic for 'create a code paste on Pastebin', load the operation schema, and execute with content, format=python, and visibility=unlisted parameters

Key Endpoints

3 endpoints — jentic publishes the only available openapi specification for pastebin api, keeping it validated and agent-ready.

METHOD

PATH

DESCRIPTION

POST

/api_post.php

Create, list, or delete pastes

POST

/api_login.php

Authenticate and get user session key

POST

/api_raw.php

Retrieve raw paste content

POST

/api_post.php

Create, list, or delete pastes

POST

/api_login.php

Authenticate and get user session key

POST

/api_raw.php

Retrieve raw paste content

Why though Jentic?

Three things that make agents converge on Jentic-routed access.

Credential isolation

Pastebin developer API keys and user session keys are stored encrypted in the Jentic vault. Agents receive pre-authenticated request bodies without exposing raw keys in their context.

Intent-based discovery

Agents search by intent (e.g., 'create a private paste with expiry') and Jentic returns matching Pastebin operations with their form parameter schemas, including valid values for visibility and expiration.

Time to first call

Direct Pastebin integration: under 1 day (form-encoded POST endpoints, developer key). Through Jentic: under 15 minutes — search, load schema, execute.

Related APIs

Alternatives and complements available in the Jentic catalogue.

Alternative

Paste Monster API

Smaller pastebin with full CRUD including edit and delete via REST

Choose Paste Monster for RESTful CRUD with PATCH editing. Pastebin.com uses POST-only endpoints but has wider adoption, more languages, and expiry controls.

Alternative

CentOS Pastebin API

Unauthenticated community pastebin with trending and recent feeds

Choose CentOS Pastebin for anonymous no-auth paste creation with community browsing features. Pastebin.com requires a dev key but offers visibility and expiry controls.

Alternative

Pastery API

Minimalist pastebin with clean REST API and API key in query params

Choose Pastery for a simpler, cleaner REST API with standard HTTP methods. Pastebin.com has more features but uses non-standard POST-only design.

Complementary

GitHub API

Source control platform with Gists for versioned, forkable code sharing

Use GitHub Gists when you need version control, comments, and forking on shared snippets. Pastebin is simpler for quick anonymous or semi-private sharing.

FAQs

Specific to using Pastebin API API through Jentic.

Why is there no official OpenAPI spec for Pastebin API?

Pastebin does not publish an OpenAPI specification. Jentic generates and maintains this spec so that AI agents and developers can call Pastebin API via structured tooling. It is validated against the live API and kept up to date. Get started at https://app.jentic.com/sign-up.

What authentication does the Pastebin API use?

The API uses a developer API key (api_dev_key) included in every POST request body. For user-specific operations like listing or deleting pastes, you first obtain a session key via POST /api_login.php and include it as api_user_key in subsequent requests. Through Jentic, both keys are stored securely in the vault.

Can I create private pastes through the API?

Yes. Set api_paste_private=2 in the POST /api_post.php request body for private pastes (only visible to the authenticated user), api_paste_private=1 for unlisted (accessible via URL only), or api_paste_private=0 for public pastes.

What paste expiry options are available?

The api_paste_expire_date parameter accepts values including N (never), 10M (10 minutes), 1H (1 hour), 1D (1 day), 1W (1 week), 2W (2 weeks), 1M (1 month), 6M (6 months), and 1Y (1 year). Set in the POST /api_post.php request body.

How do I retrieve the raw content of a paste?

Use POST /api_raw.php with the api_paste_key parameter set to the paste identifier. For public and unlisted pastes only your developer key is required. For private pastes you also need the api_user_key from a login session.

How do I create a paste through Jentic?

Search Jentic for 'create a Pastebin paste' to find the POST /api_post.php operation. Load the schema to see all parameters (api_paste_code, api_paste_format, api_paste_private, api_paste_expire_date), then execute. Install with pip install jentic.