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Show HN: Paste in CSV, get a sharable file

14 points by heynk 12y ago

michaelmior 12y ago
The change you wanted was rejected. Maybe you tried to change something you didn't have access to. If you are the application owner check the logs for more information.
- mholt 12y ago
  I get that when I paste improperly formatted CSV.
mholt 12y ago
Nice clean look. Just FYI, newlines aren't properly formatted in the output: a,b,"c c",d,e Also, what is the privacy policy as for data we paste into your site?
- Mandatum 12y ago
  Ok removed that. Privacy policy? Oh hi, I got yo pastes. EDIT: Yep, you can inject JS too. Apologies for the way I posted that, did make sure there was nothing personal on there (was mostly test data and people copy-pasting Wiki stuff).
  - voltagex_ 12y ago
    Just a warning - that page is ~7MB and crashed Firefox for me. Still pretty sad the browser can be halted via zerg rush.
    - Mandatum 12y ago
      Yeah it goes on to list all pastes on the site and gives you the ability to edit, destroy or view them.
  - heynk 12y ago
    Yeah, this was a very quick project and that slipped through. All fixed now. If people are interested I'd be happy to put due diligence in and put up a privacy policy! Edit: maybe I'm an idiot and can't repro the js injection, could you link me? http://copypastecsv.herokuapp.com/pastes/8279b342 http://copypastecsv.herokuapp.com/pastes/8279b342
    - dyscrete 12y ago
      To be honest, there is not much need for a CSV host as most would just use Google Docs. It's a cool tool for hackers though. EDIT: typos
      - nostromo 12y ago
        Couldn't you say the same thing about Gist/PasteBin? Last I checked those were pretty popular...
  - dyscrete 12y ago
    I was about to mention the bad security of uploading personal documents to some guy's Heroku instance. Instead found this a very unprofessional and destructive way to handle a bug report, and possibly illegal[1]. The site's creator Hank Stoever has his public contact information available[2]. [1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/13/barrett-brown-arrested-fo_n_1881535.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/13/barrett-brown-arres... [2] http://hankstoever.com http://hankstoever.com EDIT: removed text wall and typos
laex 12y ago
Nice. I had a an idea for something similar. More like a library that takes in markdown formatted CSV and outputs well-formatted XLS/Pages document.
misiti3780 12y ago
This is pretty nice, but it would be better if you could edit the columns - also, can you post this csv data to a url via ajax after it is formatted?

14 points by heynk 12y ago

The change you wanted was rejected. Maybe you tried to change something you didn't have access to. If you are the application owner check the logs for more information.

mholt 12y ago
I get that when I paste improperly formatted CSV.

mholt 12y ago

Nice clean look. Just FYI, newlines aren't properly formatted in the output: a,b,"c c",d,e Also, what is the privacy policy as for data we paste into your site?

Mandatum 12y ago
Ok removed that. Privacy policy? Oh hi, I got yo pastes. EDIT: Yep, you can inject JS too. Apologies for the way I posted that, did make sure there was nothing personal on there (was mostly test data and people copy-pasting Wiki stuff).
- voltagex_ 12y ago
  Just a warning - that page is ~7MB and crashed Firefox for me. Still pretty sad the browser can be halted via zerg rush.
  - Mandatum 12y ago
    Yeah it goes on to list all pastes on the site and gives you the ability to edit, destroy or view them.
- heynk 12y ago
  Yeah, this was a very quick project and that slipped through. All fixed now. If people are interested I'd be happy to put due diligence in and put up a privacy policy! Edit: maybe I'm an idiot and can't repro the js injection, could you link me? http://copypastecsv.herokuapp.com/pastes/8279b342 http://copypastecsv.herokuapp.com/pastes/8279b342
  - dyscrete 12y ago
    To be honest, there is not much need for a CSV host as most would just use Google Docs. It's a cool tool for hackers though. EDIT: typos
    - nostromo 12y ago
      Couldn't you say the same thing about Gist/PasteBin? Last I checked those were pretty popular...
- dyscrete 12y ago
  I was about to mention the bad security of uploading personal documents to some guy's Heroku instance. Instead found this a very unprofessional and destructive way to handle a bug report, and possibly illegal[1]. The site's creator Hank Stoever has his public contact information available[2]. [1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/13/barrett-brown-arrested-fo_n_1881535.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/13/barrett-brown-arres... [2] http://hankstoever.com http://hankstoever.com EDIT: removed text wall and typos

laex 12y ago

Nice. I had a an idea for something similar. More like a library that takes in markdown formatted CSV and outputs well-formatted XLS/Pages document.

misiti3780 12y ago

This is pretty nice, but it would be better if you could edit the columns - also, can you post this csv data to a url via ajax after it is formatted?