a command line http client built on top of undici.
bbgurl is distributed on npm. you can install it with npm i -g bbgurl, or
use it with npx:
npx bbgurl https://google.com$ bbgurl https://google.com
[♥] Downloading: ======================================== 100% (220/220)
<HTML><HEAD><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8">
<TITLE>301 Moved</TITLE></HEAD><BODY>
<H1>301 Moved</H1>
The document has moved
<A HREF="https://www.google.com/">here</A>.
</BODY></HTML>
(this example does not work as that service no longer exists.)
$ bbgurl http://whatismyip.jit.su -H '{ "accept": "application/json" }'
{ "ip": "71.198.76.200" }
(this example also needs to be updated, but the functionality hasn't changed here at all so it should work!)
$ bbgurl -u josh:supersekritpw http://localhost:8080
{ "success": true, "message": "Welcome to the inner sanctum." }
(yes, this ancient url still works!! this is an up-to-date example!)
$ bbgurl --verbose http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.8.4/node-v0.8.4.tar.gz -o node-v0.8.4.tar.gz
[♥] data written to /home/josh/joshiverse/old-memes/bbgurl/node-v0.8.4.tar.gz
here's the current output of the help, which I think is uncharacteristically comprehensive:
[♥] bbgurl: a cli http client using undici
[♥]
[♥] USAGE: bbgurl [URL]
[♥]
[♥] make an HTTP request using undici.request.
[♥]
[♥] most undici options are bled straight through the args, using conventions
[♥] from the optimist and minimist libraries.
[♥]
[♥] for more information on undici, see: https://npm.im/undici
[♥]
[♥] OPTIONS:
[♥] --help print this message.
[♥]
[♥] -Q/--quiet suppress logging.
[♥]
[♥] -X/--method METHOD an http method. defaults to GET.
[♥]
[♥] --body BODY the request body. if the first character is a @,
[♥] will read from file. defaults to stdin.
[♥]
[♥] --headers HEADERS a JSON blob representing an undici headers
[♥] argument. defaults to null.
[♥]
[♥] --upgrade UPGRADE optionally upgrade the request with the specified
[♥] upgrade type.
[♥]
[♥] --bodyTimeout MILLIS how long to wait for the body before timing out.
[♥] defaults to 30 seconds.
[♥]
[♥] --headersTimeout MILLIS how long to wait for the headers before timing
[♥] out. defaults to 30 seconds.
[♥]
[♥] --maxRedirections N the maximum number of redirects to follow.
[♥]
[♥] --mixin MIXIN if specified, call the appropriate fetch mixin on the body.
[♥]
[♥] -i/--include include response status, headers and trailers.
[♥]
[♥] --logfile FILE an optional file to write logs to.
[♥]
[♥] -o/--output FILE a file to write the response to. defaults to stdout.
[♥]
[♥] -U/--user CREDENTIALS specify basic auth credentials. ex: '-u user:pass'
[♥]
There are tests using bats. To run
them, execute npm test.
a previous version of this client was written as a thin wrapper around mikeal/request; however, request is no longer maintained, and I saw no reason not to upgrade.
MIT/X11.