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Commands tagged curl

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findlocation() { place=`echo $1 | sed 's/ /%20/g'` ; curl -s "http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?output=json&oe=utf-8&q=$place" | grep -e "address" -e "coordinates" | sed -e 's/^ *//' -e 's/"//g' -e 's/address/Full Address/';}
2010-10-18 21:11:42
User: shadyabhi
Functions: grep sed
Tags: curl google
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find co-ordinates of a location

Just add this to your .bashrc file.

Use quotes when query has multiple word length.

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for url in `cat urls `; do title=`curl $url 2>&1 | grep -i '<title>.*</title>'` && curl $url > /tmp/u && mail -s "$title" your-private-instapaper-address@instapaper.com < /tmp/u ; done
2010-10-16 19:10:19
User: iamarchimedes
Functions: grep mail
Tags: curl instapaper
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Bulk add urls to your Instapaper account

Note, you need to replace the email address with your private Instapaper email address.

There are a bunch of possible improvements such as,

- Not writing a temp file

- Doesnt strip tags (tho Instapaper does thankfully)

- Shouldnt require 2 curls

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curl ifconfig.me
2010-10-09 08:12:26
User: dpoblador
Tags: Network curl
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Get My Public IP Address
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Check the Description below.
2010-10-07 04:22:32
User: hunterm
Tags: bash Linux wget curl awesome counter epic one liner
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Add together the count of users from the international Linux Counter and the dudalibre.com counter.

The command was too long for the command box, so here it is:

echo $(( `wget -qO - http://i18n.counter.li.org/ | grep 'users registered' | sed 's/.*\<font size=7\>//g' | tr '\>' ' ' | sed 's/<br.*//g' | tr ' ' '\0'` + `curl --silent http://www.dudalibre.com/gnulinuxcounter?lang=en | grep users | head -2 | tail -1 | sed 's/.*<strong>//g' | sed 's/<\/strong>.*//g'` ))

This took me about an hour to do. It uses wget and curl because, dudalibre.com blocks wget, and wget worked nicely for me.

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shout() { curl -s "http://shoutkey.com/new?url=${1}" | sed -n "/<h1>/s/.*href=\"\([^\"]*\)\".*/\1/p" ;}
2010-10-05 19:15:50
User: dabom
Functions: sed
Tags: sed curl function short url shoutkey
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Create an easy to pronounce shortened URL from CLI

Shorter regex.

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shout () { curl -s "http://shoutkey.com/new?url=$1" | sed -n 's/\<h1\>/\&/p' | sed 's/<[^>]*>//g;/</N;//b' ;}
2010-10-04 23:50:54
User: elfreak
Functions: sed
Tags: sed curl function short url shoutkey
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Create an easy to pronounce shortened URL from CLI

Just add this function to your .zshrc / .bashrc, and by typing "shout *URL*" you get a randomly chosen English word that ShoutKey.com uses to short your URL. You may now go to shoutkey.com/*output_word* and get redirected. The URL will be valid for 5 minutes.

(I've never used sed before, so I'll be quite glad if someone could straighten up the sed commands and combine them (perhaps also removing the whitespace). If so, I'll update it right away ;) )

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curl -n --ssl-reqd --mail-from "<user@gmail.com>" --mail-rcpt "<user@server.tld>" --url smtps://smtp.gmail.com:465 -T file.txt
2010-10-03 15:44:53
User: mitry
Tags: curl smtp gmail smtps
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Send email with curl and gmail

Required curl version >=7.21; using .netrc for authorization

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googl () { curl -s -d "url=${1}" http://goo.gl/api/url | sed -n "s/.*:\"\([^\"]*\).*/\1\n/p" ;}
2010-10-03 02:52:44
User: dabom
Functions: sed
Tags: sed curl google url google shortener
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Google URL shortener

Shorter and made into a function.

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curl -s -d'&url=URL' http://goo.gl/api/url | sed -e 's/{"short_url":"//' -e 's/","added_to_history":false}/\n/'
2010-10-01 23:20:08
User: Soubsoub
Functions: sed
Tags: sed curl google url google shortener
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Google URL shortener

Use curl and sed to shorten an URL using goo.gl without any other api

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imageshack() { for files in *; do curl -H Expect: -F fileupload="@$files" -F xml=yes -# "http://www.imageshack.us/index.php" | grep image_link | sed -e 's/<image_link>/[IMG]/g' -e 's/<\/image_link>/[\/IMG]/g'; done; }
2010-10-01 06:50:04
User: operatinghazard
Functions: grep sed
Tags: curl for loop
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Upload folder to imageshack.us (forum)

Each file in the current folder is uploaded to imageshack.us

If the folder contains other filetypes

change:

for files in *

to:

for files in *.jpg

(to upload ONLY .jpg files)

Additionally you can try (results may vary):

for files in *.jpg *.png

The output URL is encased with BB image tags for use in a forum.

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check(){ curl -sI $1 | sed -n 's/Location: *//p';}
2010-09-30 12:29:02
User: putnamhill
Functions: sed
Tags: sed curl
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See where a shortened url takes you before click
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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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