getsb

Getsb is a command line tool for sending HTTP request.

Installation

With Cargo

$ cargo install getsb

Manual

You can download prebuilt binaries in the releases section, or create from source.

$ git clone https://github.com/nsheremet/getsb-cli.git
$ cd getsb-cli
$ cargo build --release

Linux

# sudo mv target/release/getsb /usr/local/bin

OSX

# sudo mv target/release/getsb /usr/local/bin/getsb

Windows

• Create a folder for getsb
• search for env
• open "edit your enviroment variables"
• edit PATH
• append folder path to the end of the string ie: <path_stuff_here>;C:/getsb/;

How to use Getsb

Basic usage

This is the basic way to use getsb.

GET request example

$ getsb GET https://www.rust-lang.org/ # =>
# Status: 200
#
# Connection: close
# Last-Modified: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 20:18:15 GMT
# Age: 45525
# Server: AmazonS3
# Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 20:20:15 GMT
# Content-Type: text/html
# Content-Length: 1456
# X-Cache: Hit from cloudfront
#
# Body here

POST request example

$ getsb POST https://example.com/api/data -b "key=value" -h "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" # =>
# Response

File as request

You can use json files for sending request. This is example request file request.json

{
  "url": "https://example.com/api/data",
  "method": "PUT",
  "headers": [
    "Content-Type: application/json"
  ],
  "body": {
    "key": "value"
  }
}

To send a request using this file:

$ getsb -r request.json # =>
# Response

Save request to file

$ getsb GET http://example.com -f response.dat # =>
# Response saved to file: response.dat

Options

Canonical Source

The canonical source of this repo is hosted on GitHub. If you have a GitHub account, please make your issues, and pull requests there.

Copyright and License

(C) Copyright 2017 by Nazarii Sheremet

Getsb is distributed under the terms of both the MPL2.0 license.

See LICENSE for more information.