zrok/sdk/python/examples/README.md

# zrok Pastebin
This example shows the use of the zrok SDK spinning up a simple pastebin command.

## Setup :wrench:
Refer to the [setup guide](../../../docs/guides/self-hosting/self_hosting_guide.md) for details on setting up your zrok environment needed for this example.

### Install Python Requirements
If you haven't already installed them, you'll need the dependent libraries used in the examples.
  ```bash
  pip install -r ../requirements
  ```

## Running the Example :arrow_forward:
This example contains a `copyto` server portion and `pastefrom` client portion. 

### copyto
The server portion expects to get data you want to send via stdin. It can be evoked by:
```shell
echo "this is a cool test" | python pastebin.py copyto
```
You should see some helpful info printed out to your terminal:
```shell
access your pastebin using 'pastebin.py pastefrom vp0xgmknvisu'
```
The last token in that line is your share token. We'll use that in the pastefrom command to access our data.

### pastefrom
The `pastefrom` client expects the share token as an argument.
If we envoke it using the same token as above:
```shell
python pastebin.py pastefrom vp0xgmknvisu
```
we see the data we had piped into the `copyto` server:
```
this is a cool test
```