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Commands tagged curl

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curl -s http://urlxray.com/display.php?url=http://tinyurl.com/demo-xray | grep -o '<title>.*</title>' | sed 's/<title>.*--> \(.*\)<\/title>/\1/g'
2010-09-30 10:25:18
User: karpoke
Functions: grep sed
Tags: sed grep curl
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See where a shortened url takes you before click

We can put this inside a function:

fxray() { curl -s http://urlxray.com/display.php?url="$1" | grep -o '<title>.*</title>' | sed 's/<title>.*--> \(.*\)<\/title>/\1/g'; }; fxray http://tinyurl.com/demo-xray
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eog `curl -s http://xkcd.com/ | sed -n 's/<h3>Image URL.*: \(.*\)<\/h3>/\1/p'`
2010-08-31 13:23:21
User: bluesman
Functions: sed
Tags: bash curl function xkcd comic webcomic
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View the newest xkcd comic.
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xdg-open http://xkcd.com/
2010-08-25 19:14:11
User: unixmonkey8024
Tags: bash curl function browser xkcd comic webcomic
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View the newest xkcd comic.

KISS

To get a random xkcd comic:

xdg-open http://dynamic.xkcd.com/random/comic/
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xkcd() { wget -qO- http://xkcd.com/ | sed -n 's#^<img src="\(http://imgs.[^"]\+\)"\s\+title="\(.\+\?\)"\salt.\+$#eog "\1"\necho '"'\2'#p" | bash ; }
2010-08-25 15:44:31
User: John_W
Functions: bash sed wget
Tags: bash curl function xkcd comic webcomic
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View the newest xkcd comic.

This function displays the latest comic from xkcd.com. One of the best things about xkcd is the title text when you hover over the comic, so this function also displays that after you close the comic.

To get a random xkcd comic use the following:

xkcdrandom() { wget -qO- http://dynamic.xkcd.com/comic/random | sed -n 's#^<img src="\(http://imgs.[^"]\+\)"\s\+title="\(.\+\?\)"\salt.\+$#eog "\1"\necho '"'\2'#p" | bash; }

These are just a bit shorter than the ones eigthmillion wrote, however his version didn't work as expected on my laptop for some reason (I got the title-tag first), so these build a command which is executed by bash.

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eog `curl 'http://xkcd.com/' | awk -F "ng): |</h" '/embedding/{print $2}'`
2010-08-25 14:04:30
User: dog
Functions: awk
Tags: bash curl function xkcd comic webcomic
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View the newest xkcd comic.

Shorter version with curl and awk

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gwenview `wget -O - http://xkcd.com/ | grep 'png' | grep '<img src="http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/' | sed s/title=\".*//g | sed 's/.png\"/.png/g' | sed 's/<img src=\"//g'`
2010-08-24 22:21:51
User: hunterm
Functions: grep sed
Tags: bash curl function xkcd comic webcomic
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View the newest xkcd comic.

Output the html from xkcd's index.html, filter out the html tags, and then view it in gwenview.

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curl -sL 'www.commandlinefu.com/commands/random' | awk -F'</?[^>]+>' '/"command"/{print $2}'
2010-08-13 11:42:42
User: putnamhill
Functions: awk
Tags: awk curl random
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command line fu roulette

Splitting on tags in awk is a handy way to parse html.

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curl -L -s `curl -s [http://podcast.com/show.rss]` | xmlstarlet sel -t -m "//enclosure[1]" -v "@url" -n | head -n 1` | ssh -t [user]@[host] "mpg123 -"
2010-07-31 00:17:47
User: denzuko
Functions: head ssh
Tags: streaming curl mp3 xml xmlstarlet rss mpg321 podcast xpath xquery
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Play a podcast via XPath and mpg123

Gets the latest podcast show from from your favorite Podcast. Uses curl and xmlstarlet.

Make sure you change out the items between brackets.

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curl -L -s `curl -s http://www.2600.com/oth-broadband.xml` | xmlstarlet sel -t -m "//enclosure[1]" -v "@url" -n | head -n 1` | ssh -t [user]@[host] "mpg123 -"
2010-07-30 23:20:50
User: denzuko
Functions: head ssh
Tags: ssh streaming curl mp3 http radio xml xmlstarlet ssh tunnel mpg321 podcast xpath xquery 2600
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Play 2600 off the hook over ssh

Ever wanted to stream your favorite podcast across the network, well now you can.

This command will parse the iTunes enabled podcast and stream the latest episode across the network through ssh encryption.

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FOR /f %%g in ('echo %1 ^| iconv -f gbk -t utf-8') DO curl -x proxy:port -u user:pass -d status=%%g -d source="cURL" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml
2010-07-21 04:53:54
User: MeaCulpa
Functions: iconv
Tags: windows curl iconv
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Post to twitter via curl, Windows version

Aside from curl one will need iconv windows binary since windows lacks a native utf-8 cli interface. In my case I need a proxy in China and iconv to convert gbk status string into utf-8. GnuWin32 is a good choice with loads of coreutils natively ported to Windows

"FOR /f" is the solution to pass iconv output to curl.

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curl -s "http://www.socrata.com/api/views/vedg-c5sb/rows.json?search=Axelrod" | grep "data\" :" | awk '{ print $17 }'
2010-07-01 23:54:54
User: mheadd
Functions: awk grep
Tags: awk grep curl
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Find the annual salary of any White House staffer.

Query the Socrata Open Data API being used by the White House to find any employee's salary using curl, grep and awk.

Change the value of the search parameter (example uses Axelrod) to the name of any White House staffer to see their annual salary.

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wget -qO- icanhazip.com
2010-06-24 03:49:14
User: SuperJediWombat
Functions: wget
Tags: Network curl ip address
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Get your external IP address without curl

Curl is not installed by default on many common distros anymore. wget always is :)

wget -qO- ifconfig.me/ip
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lynx --dump icanhazip.com
2010-06-16 11:52:50
User: 111110100
Tags: Network curl ip address
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Get your external IP address

If curl isn't available, use lynx.

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curl icanhazip.com
2010-06-14 18:47:11
User: pykler
Tags: Network curl ip address
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Get your external IP address

With a lolcat favicon if you access it from your browser

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curl -s "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate?langpair=|en&v=1.0&q=`xsel`" |cut -d \" -f 6
2010-06-11 21:38:26
User: eneko
Functions: cut
Tags: curl clipboard xsel api google api
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translate what is in the clipboard in english and write it to the terminal
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IFS=`echo -en "\n\b"`; for i in $(curl http://feeds.digg.com/digg/container/technology/popular.rss | grep '<title>' | sed -e 's#<[^>]*>##g' | tail -n10); do echo $i; echo $i | sed 's/^/Did you hear about /g' | say; sleep 30; done
2010-06-07 22:16:19
User: echosedawk
Functions: echo grep sed sleep tail
Tags: bash sed curl osx
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Generate background office noise using Digg feeds and OSX.

Instead of having someone else read you the Digg headlines, Have OSX do it. Requires Curl+Sed+Say. This could probably be easily modified to use espeak for Linux.

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curl http://github.com/api/v1/yaml/search/vim
2010-05-30 00:29:03
User: rkulla
Tags: git curl github
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Get info about a GitHub project

In this example we search for 'vim' but vim doesn't have a project on github right now. That's ok, this command still searches for every project that has 'vim' in their description (forks, plugins, etc). To get XML or JSON output just replace 'yaml' in the url with 'xml' or 'json'.

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curl http://github.com/api/v1/yaml/git
2010-05-30 00:18:00
User: rkulla
Tags: git curl github
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Get info about a GitHub user

In this example 'git' is the user name and the output format is YAML but you can change this to XML or JSON, eg: curl http://github.com/api/v1/json/usernamehere

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fbemailscraper YourFBEmail Password
2010-05-26 20:52:29
User: coast
Tags: bash awk curl facebook
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Facebook Email Scraper
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echo "Keyword?";read keyword;query="http://www.shoutcast.com/sbin/newxml.phtml?search="$keyword"";curl -s $query |awk -F '"' 'NR <= 4 {next}NR>15{exit}{sub(/SHOUTcast.com/,"http://yp.shoutcast.com/sbin/tunein-station.pls?id="$6)}{print i++" )"$2}'
2010-05-03 00:44:10
User: benyounes
Functions: awk echo
Tags: awk curl
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Search shoutcast web radio by keyword

Searches for web radio by submitted keyword and returns the station name and the link for listing .

May be enhanced to read user's selection and submit it to mplayer.

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url="[Youtube URL]"; echo $(curl ${url%&*} 2>&1 | grep -iA2 '<title>' | grep '-') | sed 's/^- //'
2010-04-29 02:03:36
User: rkulla
Functions: echo grep sed
Tags: youtube curl html title POSIX
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Grab just the title of a youtube video

There's another version on here that uses GET but some people don't have lwp-request, so here's an alternative. It's also a little shorter and should work with most youtube URLs since it truncates at the first &

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curl ifconfig.me/all/json
2010-04-21 20:47:17
User: truemilk
Tags: Network curl ip address
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Get your external IP address

Request all information about my IP address in json format

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curl ifconfig.me/all/xml
2010-04-21 20:45:17
User: truemilk
Tags: Network curl ip address
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Get your external IP address

Request all information about my IP address in xml format

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curl ifconfig.me
2010-04-21 13:10:33
User: aajjk
Tags: Network curl ip address
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Get your external IP address

curl ifconfig.me/ip -> IP Adress

curl ifconfig.me/host -> Remote Host

curl ifconfig.me/ua ->User Agent

curl ifconfig.me/port -> Port

thonks to http://ifconfig.me/

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curl -s http://api.wunderground.com/auto/wui/geo/ForecastXML/index.xml?query=${@:-<YOURZIPORLOCATION>}|xmlstarlet sel -E utf-8 -t -m //forecast/txt_forecast/forecastday -v fcttext -n
2010-04-13 22:14:48
User: fanfani
Tags: perl curl function weather
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Get the weather forecast for the next 24 to 48 for your location.

you can use xmlstarlet to parse output instead of perl

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