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Commands tagged curl

Terminal - Commands tagged curl - 163 results

curl --silent "FEED ADDRESS" |sed -e 's/<\/[^>]*>/\n/g' -e 's/<[^>]*>//g

2011-04-11 14:08:50

User: ljmhk

Functions: sed

Tags: curl rss

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Quick and dirty RSS

runs an rss feed through sed replacing the closing tags with newlines and the opening tags with white space making it readable.

curl -I g.cn

2011-03-27 14:27:23

User: cfy

Tags: curl

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Display HTTP-header using curl

curl -s http://whatthecommit.com/index.txt | cowsay

2011-03-20 17:30:25

User: adaven

Tags: curl cowsay

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let the cow suggest some commit messages for you

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function ds { echo -n "search : "; read ST; EST=`php -r "echo rawurlencode('$ST');"`; B64=`echo -n $ST| openssl enc -base64`; curl -s "http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/matching/$EST/$B64/plaintext" | less -p "$ST"; } ; bind '"\C-k"':"\"ds\C-m\""

2011-02-20 23:46:16

User: cparker

Functions: echo less read

Tags: bash less curl PHP

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Key binding to search commandlinefu.com

This is a simple bash function and a key binding that uses commandlinefu's simple and easy search API. It prompts for a search term, then it uses curl to search commandline fu, and highlights the search results with less.

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Command in description (Your command is too long - please keep it to less than 255 characters)

2011-02-03 08:25:42

User: __

Functions: command less

Tags: ffmpeg sed youtube wget grep curl mp3 seq youtube-dl

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YouTube Convert and Download All User's Videos to MP3s on the fly

yt2mp3(){ for j in `seq 1 301`;do i=`curl -s gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/$1/uploads\?start-index=$j\&max-results=1|grep -o "watch[^&]*"`;ffmpeg -i `wget youtube.com/$i -qO-|grep -o 'url_map"[^,]*'|sed -n '1{s_.*|__;s_\\\__g;p}'` -vn -ab 128k "`youtube-dl -e ${i#*=}`.mp3";done;}

squeezed the monster (and nifty ☺) command from 7776 from 531 characters to 284 characters, but I don't see a way to get it down to 255. This is definitely a kludge!

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curl http://www.discogs.com/search?q=724349691704 2> /dev/null | grep \/release\/ | head -2 | tail -1 | sed -e 's/^<div>.*>$.*$<\/a><\/div>/\1/'

2011-01-30 23:45:50

User: mrman

Functions: grep head sed tail

Tags: sed grep curl discogs UPC

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Find artist and title of a music cd, UPC code given (first result only)

Changed wget to curl and it doesn't create a file anymore.

curl -I http://localhost

2011-01-02 14:19:30

User: mniskin

Tags: curl HEAD http

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Send an http HEAD request w/curl

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qrurl() { curl -sS "http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chs=200x200&cht=qr&chld=H|0&chl=$1" -o - | display -filter point -resize 600x600 png:-; }

2010-12-16 04:42:05

User: __

Tags: ImageMagick curl function display

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Create QR codes from a URL.

like 7300, but doesn't clutter your working directory with old qr.*.png files. This will get the QR barcode, and send it right into ImageMagick's 'display' tool. Usage is the same as 7300; just call this function followed by the URL:

qrurl http://xkcd.com

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atomtitles () { curl --silent $1 | xmlstarlet sel -N atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" -t -m /atom:feed/atom:entry -v atom:title -n}

2010-12-15 11:03:31

User: Seebi

Tags: curl xml xmlstarlet atom feed

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Get the headlines of an atom feed

this simply curls the feed and runs a xpath query on it ...

curl -s -O http://s3.amazonaws.com/alexa-static/top-1m.csv.zip ; unzip -q -o top-1m.csv.zip top-1m.csv ; head -1000 top-1m.csv | cut -d, -f2 | cut -d/ -f1 > topsites.txt

2010-11-01 01:25:53

User: chrismccoy

Functions: cut head

Tags: curl unzip cut

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get a list of top 1000 sites from alexa

this will dump a list of domains one per line into a text file

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wget -O xkcd_$(date +%y-%m-%d).png `lynx --dump http://xkcd.com/|grep png`; eog xkcd_$(date +%y-%m-%d).png

2010-10-27 13:42:55

User: theanalyst

Functions: date grep wget

Tags: bash wget lynx curl function xkcd comic webcomic

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View the newest xkcd comic.

Just added view with the eog viewer.

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for file in `cat urls.txt`; do echo -n "$file " >> log.txt; curl --head $file >> log.txt ; done

2010-10-19 02:54:13

User: Glutnix

Functions: echo file

Tags: status log curl HEAD http files list download http_code url

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Get all the HTTP HEAD responses from a list of urls in a file

urls.txt should have a fully qualified url on each line

prefix with

rm log.txt;

to clear the log

change curl command to

curl --head $file | head -1 >> log.txt

to just get the http status

findlocation() {place=`echo $@`; lynx -dump "http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?output=json&oe=utf-8&q=$place" | egrep "address|coordinates" | sed -e 's/^ *//' -e 's/"//g' -e 's/address/Full Address/';}

2010-10-18 21:59:26

User: houghi

Functions: egrep sed

Tags: curl google

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find co-ordinates of a location

Just a few minor changes.

First the usage of lynx instead of curl so no sed is needed to revert the spaces. Then the usages of egrep instead of grep -e to save a few characters and last the removal of the extra 0.

findlocation() { place=`echo $* | sed 's/ /%20/g'` ; curl -s "http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?output=json&oe=utf-8&q=$place" | grep -e "address" -e "coordinates" | sed -e 's/^ *//' -e 's/"//g' -e 's/address/Full Address/';}

2010-10-18 21:38:20

User: nimmylebby

Functions: grep sed

Tags: curl google

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find co-ordinates of a location

Alternative to http://commandlinefu.com/commands/view/6831/find-co-ordinates-of-a-location with $* instead of $1 so no need to quote multi-word locations

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.

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.

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.

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 ;) )

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.

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

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.

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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