Change the way privatebin paste denies are handled. Now we try max 5 times to find a usable instance.

pastebins/cpaste.py

@@ -422,17 +422,20 @@ def publish_to_cpaste(file, paste_url='https://cpaste.org'):
     output = '%s%s#%s  DELETE TOKEN: %s' % (paste_url, paste_id, paste_decrypt, paste_deletetoken)
     return output
 
-def publish_to_multiple_cpastes(file, num_instances=3):
+def publish_to_multiple_cpastes(file, num_instances=3, max_attempts=5):
     instances = get_list_of_instances()
-    
-    # Ensure we don't try to select more instances than available
-    num_instances = min(num_instances, len(instances))
-    
-    # Randomly select num_instances from the list
-    selected_instances = random.sample(instances, num_instances)
-    
     results = {}
-    for instance in selected_instances:
+    attempts = 0
+
+    while len(results) < num_instances and attempts < max_attempts:
+        # Randomly select an instance that hasn't been tried yet
+        available_instances = [i for i in instances if i not in results]
+        if not available_instances:
+            break  # No more instances to try
+
+        instance = random.choice(available_instances)
+        attempts += 1
+
         try:
             # Extract the base URL from the instance link
             base_url = instance.split('?')[0]
@@ -440,6 +443,10 @@ def publish_to_multiple_cpastes(file, num_instances=3):
             results[base_url] = result
         except Exception as e:
             print(f"Failed to publish to {instance}: {str(e)}")
+            # We don't add this instance to results, so it might be retried
+
+    if len(results) < num_instances:
+        print(f"Warning: Only managed to publish to {len(results)} instances out of {num_instances} requested.")
 
     return results