It takes a few seconds until it has figured out your public ip address. You need to have 'curl' installed of course.
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. Show Sample Output
Another simple way to get external IP or use: wget -qO- http://ipecho.net/plain
With counter format [001, 002, ..., 999] , nice with pictures or wallpapers collections.
Weather based on your location
Oneliner to get domain names list of all existing domain names (from wikipedia) Show Sample Output
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.
Now all you have to do is replace user by your twitter username , pass by your password and the text inside status to whatever you wish to set your status too . It uses cUrl library to post your messsage
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...?
You need curl.. and a Mac of course.
download a specific file with -f to not display errors and -O to write output to a file named as the remote file. Show Sample Output
I am using .bat commands to execute Curl commands for Twitter API Show Sample Output
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