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Commands tagged curl

Terminal - Commands tagged curl - 163 results

curl -o id.gif `date +http://d.yimg.com/a/p/uc/%Y%m%d/largeimagecrwiz%y%m%d.gif`

2009-12-04 20:16:32

User: putnamhill

Tags: curl date

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get daily wizard of id comic

Requires the date command. This also works with some other comics. Here's a bash script that displays daily Garfield, Id, and Andy Capp:

http://putnamhill.net/cgi-bin/yahoo-comics.sh?ga,crwiz,crcap

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wget `lynx --dump http://xkcd.com/|grep png`

2009-12-03 23:10:22

User: metalx1000

Functions: grep wget

Tags: bash wget lynx curl function xkcd comic webcomic

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View the newest xkcd comic.

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curl -s 'xkcd.com' | awk -F\" '/^<img/{printf("<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>\n<xkcd>\n<item>\n <title>%s</title>\n <comment>%s</comment>\n <image>%s</image>\n</item>\n</xkcd>\n", $6, $4, $2)}'

2009-12-03 19:49:37

User: putnamhill

Functions: awk

Tags: awk curl xkcd comic webcomic

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View the newest xkcd comic.

I wasn't sure how to display the image, so I thought I'd try xml for a different twist.

lynx --dump --source http://www.xkcd.com | grep `lynx --dump http://www.xkcd.com | egrep '(png|jpg)'` | grep title | cut -d = -f2,3 | cut -d '"' -f2,4 | sed -e 's/"/|/g' | awk -F"|" ' { system("display " $1);system("echo "$2); } '

2009-12-03 18:53:57

User: solarislackware

Functions: awk cut egrep grep

Tags: bash curl function xkcd comic webcomic

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View the newest xkcd comic.

Same thing just a different way to get there. You will need lynx

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xkcd(){ wget -qO- http://xkcd.com/|tee >(feh $(grep -Po '(?<=")http://imgs[^/]+/comics/[^"]+\.\w{3}'))|grep -Po '(?<=(\w{3})" title=").*(?=" alt)';}

2009-11-27 09:11:47

User: eightmillion

Functions: grep tee 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, I also use the following:

xkcdrandom(){ wget -qO- dynamic.xkcd.com/comic/random|tee >(feh $(grep -Po '(?<=")http://imgs[^/]+/comics/[^"]+\.\w{3}'))|grep -Po '(?<=(\w{3})" title=").*(?=" alt)';}

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albumart(){ local y="$@";awk '/View larger image/{gsub(/^.*largeImagePopup\(.|., .*$/,"");print;exit}' <(curl -s 'http://www.albumart.org/index.php?srchkey='${y// /+}'&itempage=1&newsearch=1&searchindex=Music');}

2009-11-15 19:54:16

User: eightmillion

Tags: bash awk curl function albumart

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Find the cover image for an album

This bash function uses albumart.org to find the cover for an album. It returns an amazon.com url to the image.

Usage: albumart [artist] [album]

These arguments can be reversed and if the album name is distinct enough, it may be possible to omit the artist.

The command can be extended with wget to automatically download the matching image like this:

albumart(){ local x y="$@";x=$(awk '/View larger image/{gsub(/^.*largeImagePopup\(.|., .*$/,"");print;exit}' <(curl -s 'http://www.albumart.org/index.php?srchkey='${y// /+}'&itempage=1&newsearch=1&searchindex=Music'));[ -z "$x" ]&&echo "Not found."||wget "$x" -O "${y}.${x##*.}";}

geo(){ curl -s "http://www.geody.com/geoip.php?ip=$(dig +short $1)"| sed '/^IP:/!d;s/<[^>][^>]*>//g'; }

2009-11-12 17:14:09

User: dennisw

Functions: sed

Tags: sed curl geographical location dig geoip

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geoip information

A function that takes a domain name as an argument

ompload() { curl -# -F file1=@"$1" http://ompldr.org/upload|awk '/Info:|File:|Thumbnail:|BBCode:/{gsub(/<[^<]*?\/?>/,"");$1=$1;print}';}

2009-11-07 20:56:52

User: eightmillion

Functions: awk

Tags: awk curl omploader

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Upload images to omploader.org from the command line.

This function uploads images to http://omploader.org and then prints out the links to the file.

Some coloring can also be added to the command with:

ompload() { curl -F file1=@"$1" http://omploader.org/upload|awk '/Info:|File:|Thumbnail:|BBCode:/{gsub(/<[^<]*?\/?>/,"");$1=$1;sub(/^/,"\033[0;34m");sub(/:/,"\033[0m:");print}';}

GeoipLookUp(){ curl -A "Mozilla/5.0" -s "http://www.geody.com/geoip.php?ip=$1" | grep "^IP.*$1" | html2text; }

2009-11-06 00:32:27

User: sputnick

Functions: grep

Tags: sed curl

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geoip information

That makes a function you can put in your ~/.bashrc to run it when you need in any term with an IP as argument

curl -s "http://www.geody.com/geoip.php?ip=$(curl -s icanhazip.com)" | sed '/^IP:/!d;s/<[^>][^>]*>//g'

2009-11-04 07:15:02

User: getkaizer

Functions: sed

Tags: sed curl

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geoip information

Not my script. Belongs to mathewbauer. Used without his permission.

This script gives a single line as shown in the sample output.

NOTE: I have blanked out the IP address for obvious security reasons. But you will get whatever is your IP if you run the script.

Tested working in bash.

curl ip.appspot.com

2009-10-31 21:11:10

User: ktoso

Tags: Network sed curl ip address

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Get your external IP address

Yeah I know it's been up here a million times, but this service is a really clean and nice one. Nothing but your IP address on it. Actually I was to write something like this, and noticed this on appspot... ;)

curl -fs brandx.jp.sme 2&>1 > /dev/null || echo brandx.jp.sme ping failed | mail -ne -s'Server unavailable' joker@jp.co.uk

2009-10-23 14:29:06

User: mccalni

Functions: echo mail ping

Tags: bash ping curl mail

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Check a server is up. If it isn't mail me.

Alternative to the ping check if your firewall blocks ping. Uses curl to get the landing page silently, or fail with an error code. You can probably do this with wget as well.

b="http://2010.utosc.com"; for p in $( curl -s $b/presentation/schedule/ | grep /presentation/[0-9]*/ | cut -d"\"" -f2 ); do f=$(curl -s $b$p | grep "/static/slides/" | cut -d"\"" -f4); if [ -n "$f" ]; then echo $b$f; curl -O $b$f; fi done

2009-10-11 17:28:46

User: danlangford

Functions: cut echo grep

Tags: curl cut for UTOSC

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download all the presentations from UTOSC2010

miss a class at UTOSC2010? need a refresher? use this to curl down all the presentations from the UTOSC website. (http://2010.utosc.com) NOTE/WARNING this will dump them in the current directory and there are around 37 and some are big - tested on OSX10.6.1

curl "http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW.shtml" 2>/dev/null | sed -e :a -e 's/<[^>]*>//g;/</N;//ba' | perl -nle 's/^\t\t(.*$)/ $1/ and print;'

2009-09-24 23:37:36

User: drewk

Functions: perl sed

Tags: perl sed curl

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Print all members of US House of Representatives

Uses curl to download page of membership of US Congress. Use sed to strip HTML then perl to print a line starting with two tabs (a line with a representative)

echo $(date +%s) > start-time; URL=http://www.google.com; while true; do echo $(curl -L --w %{speed_download} -o/dev/null -s $URL) >> bps; sleep 10; done &

2009-09-19 21:26:06

User: matthewbauer

Functions: date echo sleep

Tags: log curl gnuplot internet download bps speed

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Log your internet download speed

This will log your internet download speed.

You can run

gnuplot -persist <(echo "plot 'bps' with lines")

to get a graph of it.

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curl -u username --silent "https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom" | perl -ne 'print "\t" if /<name>/; print "$2\n" if /<(title|name)>(.*)<\/\1>/;'

2009-09-08 06:53:39

User: sitaram

Functions: perl

Tags: Linux perl curl rss gmail

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Check your unread Gmail from the command line

notice what happens when there is more than one unread message in a thread...

also people please dont hardcode the password when you use curl. Leave it out and curl will ask you when it runs. Please...?

curl -u username:password --silent "https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom" | tr -d '\n' | awk -F '<entry>' '{for (i=2; i<=NF; i++) {print $i}}' | sed -n "s/<title>$.*$<\/title.*name>$.*$<\/name>.*/\2 - \1/p"

2009-09-07 21:56:40

User: postrational

Functions: awk sed tr

Tags: Linux perl sed awk macosx curl rss gmail

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Check your unread Gmail from the command line

Checks the Gmail ATOM feed for your account, parses it and outputs a list of unread messages.

For some reason sed gets stuck on OS X, so here's a Perl version for the Mac:

curl -u username:password --silent "https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom" | tr -d '\n' | awk -F '<entry>' '{for (i=2; i<=NF; i++) {print $i}}' | perl -pe 's/^<title>(.*)<\/title>.*<name>(.*)<\/name>.*$/$2 - $1/'

If you want to see the name of the last person, who added a message to the conversation, change the greediness of the operators like this:

curl -u username:password --silent "https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom" | tr -d '\n' | awk -F '<entry>' '{for (i=2; i<=NF; i++) {print $i}}' | perl -pe 's/^<title>(.*)<\/title>.*?<name>(.*?)<\/name>.*$/$2 - $1/'

curl -Is slashdot.org | sed -ne '/^X-[FBL]/s/^X-//p'

2009-09-06 03:17:19

User: arcege

Functions: sed

Tags: sed futurama curl

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Get Futurama quotations from slashdot.org servers

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curl -s http://tinyurl.com/create.php?url=http://<website.url>/ | sed -n 's/.*$http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/[a-z0-9][a-z0-9]*$.*/\1/p' | uniq

2009-08-30 07:55:48

User: amaymon

Functions: sed

Tags: sed uniq curl

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Creating shortened URLs from the command line

curl -s "http://services.digg.com/stories?link=$NEWSURL&appkey=http://www.whatever.com&type=json" | python -m simplejson.tool | grep diggs

2009-08-24 08:49:20

User: jyro

Functions: grep python

Tags: curl python json digg

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Get number of diggs for a news URL

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tweet(){ curl -u "$1" -d status="$2" "http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml"; }

2009-08-23 16:56:24

User: Code_Bleu

Tags: twitter curl function

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Update twitter via curl as Function

Type the command in the terminal and press enter to create the tweet() function. Then run as follows:

tweet MyTwitterAccount "My message goes here"

It will prompt you for password. Make sure that you use escape "\" character in message for showing varialbles or markup.

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curl http://www.phrack.org/archives/tgz/phrack[1-67].tar.gz -o phrack#1.tar.gz

2009-08-21 10:14:25

User: amaymon

Tags: curl

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Download all Phrack .tar.gzs

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urls=('www.ubuntu.com' 'google.com'); for i in ${urls[@]}; do http_code=$(curl -I -s $i -w %{http_code}); echo $i status: ${http_code:9:3}; done

2009-08-17 16:24:26

User: Code_Bleu

Functions: echo

Tags: curl website http_code

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Check availability of Websites based on HTTP_CODE

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curl http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/by/<your username>/rss|gzip ->commandlinefu-contribs-backup-$(date +%Y-%m-%d-%H.%M.%S).rss.gz

2009-08-10 12:43:33

User: linuxrawkstar

Functions: date gzip

Tags: backup curl date gzip commandlinefu zless

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back up your commandlinefu contributed commands

Use `zless` to read the content of your *rss.gz file:

zless commandlinefu-contribs-backup-2009-08-10-07.40.39.rss.gz

curl -s 'http://checkip.dyndns.org' | sed 's/.*Current IP Address: $[0-9\.]*$.*/\1/g'

2009-08-06 11:54:31

User: kulor

Functions: sed

Tags: Network sed curl

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Get your external IP address

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