From a630bc8df796060156ec9cab630a9f9f0d455f4a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: cynic <buffer@sidekek.ml>
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2021 14:05:35 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md

---
 README.md | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 4d7f68e..04e1c8d 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -2,3 +2,28 @@ endpoint | parameters | response
 --- | --- | ---
 POST / | paste (text to upload) | `text/plain` link to new page
 GET /pastes/* | n/a | `text/plain` body of the paste
+
+example of cli script using python:
+```
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+PASTESERVER_URL = "http://paste.mydoma.in"
+
+import requests
+import sys
+f = None
+try:
+	f = open(sys.argv[1], "r")
+except FileNotFoundError:
+	print("file does not exist");sys.exit(2)
+fr = f.read()
+if fr == "": sys.exit(1)
+r = None
+try:
+	r = requests.post(PASTESERVER_URL, data={"paste": fr})
+except:
+	print("error querying server");sys.exit(3)
+f.close()
+print(r.text)
+
+```