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Commands tagged curl

Terminal - Commands tagged curl - 163 results

curl -s ifconfig.me|tee >(xargs geoiplookup)

2012-02-09 20:30:26

User: MeanderingCode

Functions: tee xargs

Tags: tee curl geoip

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geoip information

Show external IP and geolocation information.

Primary feature is the use of tee to echo IP _and_ send to geoiplookup command...Use IP as input for as many commands as you want with more >( [command] )

Thanks to http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/6334/

Requires MaxMind DB and geoiplookup tool.

Sample output has IP obfuscated on first line, lines 2-4 from having MaxMind Country && MaxMind City DBs installed

curl $URL -s -L -o /dev/null -w '%{url_effective}'

2012-01-25 16:11:24

User: labynocle

Tags: curl redirect url

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Retrieve the final URL after redirect

Sometimes it could be very useful to obtain the final URL you'll use after several redirects.

(I use this command line for my automated tests to check if every redirections are ok)

wget ifconfig.me/ip -q -O -

2011-11-30 08:30:35

User: DamirX

Functions: wget

Tags: Network curl ip address

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Get your external IP address

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say() { curl -sA Mozilla -d q=`python3 -c 'from urllib.parse import quote_plus; from sys import stdin; print(quote_plus(stdin.read()[:100]))' <<<"$@"` 'http://translate.google.com/translate_tts' | mpg123 -q -; }

2011-11-26 09:18:16

User: kev

Functions: mpg123

Tags: curl google mpg321 python3

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google tts

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curl icanhazip.com

2011-11-15 19:57:01

User: o0110o

Tags: IP curl ip address

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Get your external public IP address

Grabs your external public IP.

for i in {1..40};do echo -n $i. $(date +%H:%M:%S):\ ; (time curl 'http://ya.ru/' &> /dev/null) 2>&1|grep real;sleep 1;done

2011-11-11 10:40:38

User: AntonyC

Functions: date echo grep sleep time

Tags: curl

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measure answer time of a web service

This uses curl to find out the access times of a web service

curl -O http://www.site.com/img/image[001-175].jpg

2011-11-09 10:19:24

User: kev

Tags: curl

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batch download jpgs which are in sequence

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curl -b cookie.txt http://www.site.com/download/file.txt

2011-11-09 03:00:49

User: kev

Tags: curl

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send cookie

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curl -c cookie.txt -d username=hello -d password=w0r1d http://www.site.com/login

2011-11-09 02:57:39

User: kev

Tags: curl

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save login cookie

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curl sputnick-area.net/ua

2011-10-24 09:57:50

User: sputnick

Tags: curl headers

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Get the browser user-agent

That's useful when you're doing some web scraping http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_scraping and you're trying to test your possibly fake user-agent.

expandurl() { curl -sIL $1 2>&1 | awk '/^Location/ {print $2}' | tail -n1; }

2011-10-19 01:35:33

User: defiantredpill

Functions: awk tail

Tags: curl

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Expand shortened URLs

This shell function uses curl(1) as it is more portable than wget(1) across Unices, to show what site a shortened URL is pointing to, even if there are many nested shortened URLs. It is a refinement to www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/9515/expand-shortened-urls to make it better for use in scripts. Only displays final result.

expandurl http://t.co/LDWqmtDM

expandurl() { curl -sIL $1 | grep ^Location; }

2011-10-19 00:56:53

User: atoponce

Functions: grep

Tags: curl

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Expand shortened URLs

curl(1) is more portable than wget(1) across Unices, so here is an alternative doing the same thing with greater portability. This shell function uses curl(1) to show what site a shortened URL is pointing to, even if there are many nested shortened URLs. This is a great way to test whether or not the shortened URL is sending you to a malicious site, or somewhere nasty that you don't want to visit. The sample output is from:

expandurl http://t.co/LDWqmtDM

curl -u username --silent "https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom" | awk 'BEGIN{FS="\n";RS="(</entry>\n)?<entry>"}NR!=1{print "\033[1;31m"$9"\033[0;32m ("$10")\033[0m:\t\033[1;33m"$2"\033[0m"}' | sed -e 's,<[^>]*>,,g' | column -t -s $'\t'

2011-10-15 23:15:52

User: frntn

Functions: awk column sed

Tags: Linux sed awk column curl rss gmail

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Check your unread Gmail from the command line

Just an alternative with more advanced formating for readability purpose. It now uses colors (too much for me but it's a kind of proof-of-concept), and adjust columns.

while sleep 30; do tput sc;tput cup 0 $(($(tput cols)-15));echo -n " New Emails: $(curl -u username:password --silent https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom | grep 'fullcount' | grep -o '[0-9]\+')";tput rc; done &

2011-09-07 08:40:28

User: saze

Functions: echo sleep tput

Tags: grep curl gmail notify

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Displays the number of unread messages on your gmail at the top right corner of your terminal

Checks your gmail account every 30 seconds and display the number of new messages in the top right corner of the terminal.

A kind of CLI "Gmail notifier" if you will. :-)

This is a mashup of http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/7916/put-a-console-clock-in-top-right-corner and http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/3386/check-your-unread-gmail-from-the-command-line

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curl pagerank.bz/yourdomain.com

2011-09-02 09:01:52

User: random

Tags: curl google

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Get Google PageRank

via http://pagerank.bz/

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curl http://my-ip.cc/host.json

2011-09-01 00:31:49

User: samleb

Tags: Network curl ip address geoip

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Get your external IP address

JSON version.

Additionally it may give your geolocation if it's known by hostip.info

curl http://my-ip.cc/host.xml

2011-09-01 00:30:03

User: samleb

Tags: Network curl ip address geoip

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Get your external IP address

XML version.

Additionally it may give your geolocation if it's known by hostip.info

curl http://my-ip.cc/host.txt

2011-09-01 00:28:49

User: samleb

Tags: Network curl ip address geoip

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Get your external IP address

Additionally it may give your geolocation if it's known by hostip.info

function expand_url() { curl -sI $1 | grep Location: | cut -d " " -f 2 | tr -d "\n" | pbcopy }

2011-08-21 05:30:09

User: gt

Functions: cut grep tr

Tags: bash grep curl cut osx tr pbcopy

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OSX Expand URL and Copy to Clipboard

Expand a URL, aka do a head request, and get the URL. Copy this value to clipboard.

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curl -s http://www.perl.org/get.html | grep -m1 '\.tar\.gz' | sed 's/.*perl-//; s/\.tar\.gz.*//'

2011-08-19 23:33:49

User: dbbolton

Functions: grep sed

Tags: perl curl

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Print the lastest stable version of Perl

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if curl -s -I -H "Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate" http://example.com/ | grep 'Content-Encoding: gzip' >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then echo Yes; else echo No;fi

2011-08-16 21:48:14

User: rwky

Functions: echo grep

Tags: curl gzip

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Check if your webserver supports gzip compression with curl

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curl -I -H "Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate" http://example.org

2011-08-16 10:32:01

User: totti

Tags: curl gzip

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Check if your webserver supports gzip compression with curl

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isgd () { curl 'http://is.gd/create.php?format=simple&url='"$1" ; printf "\n" }

2011-08-14 23:31:39

User: dbbolton

Functions: printf

Tags: curl shorturl url

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Generate a shortened URL with is.gd

Check the API. You shouldn't need sed. The print-newline at the end is to prevent zsh from inserting a % after the end-of-output.

Also works with http://v.gd

curl -s --compressed http://funnyjunk.com | awk -F'"' '/ '"'"'mainpagetop24h'"'"'/ { print "http://funnyjunk.com"$4 }' | xargs curl -s | grep -o 'ht.*m/pictures/.*\.jpg\|ht.*m/gifs/.*\.gif' | grep "_......_" | uniq | xargs wget

2011-07-21 15:57:21

User: laniner

Functions: awk uniq xargs

Tags: sort sed awk xargs grep curl download images

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Download 40 top funnyjunk Images to the current directory

If your version of curl does not support the --compressed option, use

curl -s http://funnyjunk.com | gunzip

instead of

curl -s --compressed http://funnyjunk.com

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curl -s "$URL" |wc -c

2011-07-18 15:47:57

User: Mozai

Functions: wc

Tags: size curl http

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Retrieve the size of a file on a server

Downloads the entire file, but http servers don't always provide the optional 'Content-Length:' header, and ftp/gopher/dict/etc servers don't provide a filesize header at all.

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