On: Ask HN: What API do you wish you had while building your product?

[koala_man]

A reverse pastebin, where you give it a pastebin URL and it returns the plaintext.

[neosilky_ → koala_man]

Hey! I just made https://reversepaste.com/ for you :)

[edaemon → koala_man]

Can't you use the /raw/ URL for that? E.g. https://pastebin.com/raw/AC3FGHBX

[koala_man → edaemon]

Works for pastebin.com, but not dpaste.com, sprunge.us, ix.io, fpaste.org, ideone.com, paste.fedoraproject.org, hastebin.com, termbin.com, paste.debian.net, gist.github.com, bpaste.net, lpaste.net, pastee.com, irccloud.com, codepad.org or susepaste.org.

I currently have ~40 lines of regex for this, plus some custom logic for a few that don't have raw URLs at all. A service would be very convenient.

[avh02 → koala_man]

Some would say you're half way to building what you want... Launch and sell!

[ice109 → koala_man]

what in the world do you need this for?

[OJFord → ice109]

"Guys - we don't need to pay for S3 when we can just use pastebin et al. - I'll get someone on HN to build the reverse service."