Python class to interact with the Pastebin API

pastebin_api.py

#!/usr/bin/env python2.7

# Author: m8r0wn
# Description: Python class to interact with Pastebin API

import urllib2
import urllib

class paste_it():
    #Class Variables

    #Pastebin API Key
    api_dev_key = ''
    #Pastebin Username
    username = ''
    #Pastebin Password
    password = ''
    #Max results
    api_results_limit = 25 #default=50, min=1, max=1000

    def user_key(self):
        #create user key
        user_key_data = {'api_dev_key':self.api_dev_key,
                         'api_user_name':self.username,
                         'api_user_password':self.password}
        req = urllib2.urlopen('https://pastebin.com/api/api_login.php', urllib.urlencode(user_key_data).encode('utf-8'), timeout=7)
        return req.read().decode()

    def list_trending(self):
        #list Trending Pastes, max of 18 results allowed:
        api_option = 'trends'
        data = {'api_dev_key':self.api_dev_key,
                'api_option':api_option}
        req = urllib2.urlopen('https://pastebin.com/api/api_post.php', urllib.urlencode(data).encode('utf-8'),timeout=7)
        return req.read()

    def apiuser_pastes(self):
        #list API user's Pastes:
        api_option = 'list'
        data = data = {'api_dev_key':self.api_dev_key,
                       'api_user_key':self.user_key(),
                       'api_option':api_option,
                       'api_results_limit':self.api_results_limit}
        req = urllib2.urlopen('https://pastebin.com/api/api_post.php', urllib.urlencode(data).encode('utf-8'), timeout=7)
        return req.read().decode()

    def apiuser_details(self):
        #list API user's details:
        api_option = 'userdetails'
        data = {'api_dev_key': self.api_dev_key,
                'api_user_key': self.user_key(),
                'api_option': api_option,
                'api_results_limit': self.api_results_limit}
        req = urllib2.urlopen('https://pastebin.com/api/api_post.php', urllib.urlencode(data).encode('utf-8'), timeout=7)
        return req.read().decode()

    def show_apiuser_paste(self, paste_key):
        #Print Raw paste created by api_user
        api_option = 'show_paste'
        api_paste_key = paste_key
        data = {'api_dev_key':self.api_dev_key,
                'api_user_key':self.user_key(),
                'api_option':api_option,
                'api_paste_key':api_paste_key}
        req = urllib2.urlopen('https://pastebin.com/api/api_raw.php', urllib.urlencode(data).encode('utf-8'),timeout=7)
        return req.read().decode()

    def show_paste(self, paste_key):
        #Print Raw paste
        req = urllib2.urlopen('https://pastebin.com/raw/'+paste_key, timeout=7)
        return req.read()

    def delete_paste(self, paste_key):
        #Delete one of API user's pastes
        api_option = 'delete'
        api_paste_key = paste_key
        data = {'api_dev_key': self.api_dev_key,
                'api_user_key': self.user_key(),
                'api_option': api_option,
                'api_paste_key': api_paste_key}
        req = urllib2.urlopen('https://pastebin.com/api/api_post.php', urllib.urlencode(data).encode('utf-8'),timeout=7)
        return req.read().decode()

    def create_paste(self,data):
        #Create paste on api user's account
        api_option = 'paste'
        api_paste_code = data           #paste text body
        api_paste_private = 0           #0=public, 1=unlisted, 2=private
        api_paste_name = 'title'        #title of paste
        api_paste_expire_data = 'N'     #available: N=never, 10M=10min, 1H=1hour, 1D=1Day, 1W=1week, 2W=2weeks, 1M=1Month, 6M=6months, 1Y=1year
        api_paste_format = 'text'       #text=None, mysql-MYSQL, perl=Perl, python=Python, sql=SQL, vbscript=VBscript, xml=XML, html4strict=HTML, html5=HTML5,
        data = {'api_dev_key':self.api_dev_key,
                'api_user_key':self.user_key(),
                'api_option':api_option,
                'api_paste_code':api_paste_code,
                'api_paste_private':api_paste_private,
                'api_paste_name':api_paste_name,
                'api_paste_expire_data':api_paste_expire_data,
                'api_paste_format':api_paste_format}
        req = urllib2.urlopen('https://pastebin.com/api/api_post.php', urllib.urlencode(data).encode('utf-8'),timeout=7)
        return req.read().decode()

    #The following requires your source IP address to be white-listed
    def scraper(self):
        #Fetch most recent pastes
        #Add ?limit=# to limit responses, max=250, default=50
        req = urllib2.urlopen('https://pastebin.com/api_scraping.php',timeout=7)
        return req.read()

    def scraper_paste(self, paste_key):
        req = urllib2.urlopen('https://pastebin.com/api_scrape_item.php?i=' + paste_key, timeout=7)
        return req.read()

    def scraper_paste_metadata(self, paste_key):
        req = urllib2.urlopen('https://pastebin.com/api_scrape_item_meta.php?i=' + paste_key, timeout=7)
        return req.read()

#Example Usage:
    #List trending pastes
try:
    paste = paste_it()
    print paste.list_trending()
except Exception as e:
    print "[!] API Error:",e