Using Pastebin API in Node.js
- by wiill
I've been trying to post a paste to Pastebin in Node.js, but it appears that I'm doing it wrong.
I'm getting a Bad API request, invalid api_option, however I'm clearly setting the api_option to paste like the documentation asks for.
var http = require('http');
var qs = require('qs');
var query = qs.stringify({
api_option: 'paste',
api_dev_key: 'xxxxxxxxxxxx',
api_paste_code: 'Awesome paste content',
api_paste_name: 'Awesome paste name',
api_paste_private: 1,
api_paste_expire_date: '1D'
});
var req = http.request({
host: 'pastebin.com',
port: 80,
path: '/api/api_post.php',
method: 'POST',
headers: {
'Content-Type': 'multipart/form-data',
'Content-Length': query.length
}
}, function(res) {
var data = '';
res.on('data', function(chunk) {
data += chunk;
});
res.on('end', function() {
console.log(data);
});
});
req.write(query);
req.end();
console.log(query) confirms that the string is well encoded and that api_option is there and set to paste.
Now, I've been searching forever on possible causes. I also tried setting the encoding on the write req.write(query, 'utf8') because the Pastebin API mentions that the POST must be UTF-8 encoded. I rewrote the thing over and over and re-consulted the Node HTTP documentation many times.
I'm pretty sure I completely missed something here, because I don't see how this could fail. Does anyone have an idea of what I have done wrong?
