upget: ubuntu pastebin getUbuntu pastebin requires login to download raw files. Thats annoying.This works around that. Only works for files pasted with 'plain' type (ie no syntax highlighting).

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#!/usr/bin/python
# ubuntu pastebin getter [https://gist.github.com/smoser/7647304/]
#  upget http://paste.ubuntu.com/8508062/ f.txt
#  upget http://paste.ubuntu.com/8508062/ > f.txt
# wget http://sn.im/upget -O upget && chmod 755 upget
from __future__ import unicode_literals
import sys
import urllib3
try:
    from html.parser import HTMLParser
except ImportError as e:
    from HTMLParser import HTMLParser

class MyParser(HTMLParser):
    data = ""
    path = []
    hit = ['td.code', 'div.paste', 'pre']
    def handle_starttag(self, tag, attrs):
        r = tag
        for k, v in attrs:
            if k == "class":
                r += "." + v
        self.path.append(r)
    def handle_endtag(self, tag):
        self.path.pop()
    def handle_data(self, data):
        if self.path[-(len(self.hit)):] == self.hit:
            if self.data is None:
                self.data = ""
            self.data += data
    def handle_entityref(self, ref):
        self.handle_data(self.unescape("&%s;" % ref))

url = sys.argv[1]
if len(sys.argv) == 2 or sys.argv[2] == "-":
    output = sys.stdout
elif len(sys.argv) == 3:
    output = open(sys.argv[2], "w")
if url.endswith("/plain/"):
    url = url.replace("/plain/", "")

myp = MyParser()
myp.feed(urllib3.PoolManager().request('GET', url).data.decode('utf-8'))
output.write(myp.data)
if myp.data[-1] != "\n":
    output.write("\n")