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meow
An easy tool for making requests using cURL and following redirects

Usage:
  meow [options...] <method> <URL>
  meow [options...] <URL>

When the request can have a body (methods POST, PUT, DELETE, PATCH), then it is read from stdin.
When a successful response has a body, then it is written to stdout.
If the response cannot has a body (methods HEAD, PUT, TRACE), then its headers is written to stdout.
If cURL returns a non-zero exit code, its output is written to stderr without changes.
Methods can be specified in any case (post, POST, POsT, etc).

Allowed methods:
  get (defalut)
  head
  post
  put
  delete
  connect
  options
  trace
  patch

Options:
  -a, --useragent   "<useragent>"    - set a user-agent for the request
  -c, --cookie      "<cookie>"       - set a cookie for the request (can be a filename)
  -C, --save-cookie <filename>       - save a cookie from the response to the file
  -h, --header      "<key>: <value>" - set a optional header for the request
  -H, --head                         - get response head instead of body
  -p, --proxy       <proxy>          - use the proxy
  -r, --referrer    <referrer>       - set an address making the request
  -t, --type        <type>           - set a MIME-type of the sending content
  -v, --version                      - show a version of the tool

Install:
  Just copy the meow.sh file to /usr/bin/meow

Example:

$ BASE=https://sode.su
$ meow get $BASE/@arelive/profile > test
$ cat test && echo  # echo for newline
{"id":287228005,"username":"arelive","searchable":true,"friendable":"public","invitable":"protected","name":"Arelive","type":"user","cover":null,"avatar":"1313402292021605115.png","links":[]}
$ meow $BASE/@0/profile && echo  # with redirect
{"id":0,"username":"anon","searchable":false,"friendable":"private","invitable":"private","name":"","type":"user","cover":null,"avatar":null,"links":[]}
$ meow post $BASE/api/me <<<'' && echo  # unusable without auth
{"status":2}
$ COOKIE="lang=rus; userid=287228005 session=$SECRET_KEY"  # auth
$ cat > data <<<'{"name": "Arelive, the creator of meow console utility"}'
$ meow post -c "$COOKIE" -t application/json $BASE/api/set.profile < data && echo
{"status":0}
# Now the name of profile changed
$ meow -H head $BASE/undefined  # trying to get headers from unresolvable path
HTTP/2 404 
server: Desu
date: Thu, 30 Sep 2021 10:11:08 GMT
content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8
content-length: 3253
content-security-policy: default-src 'self' oauth.telegram.org;style-src 'self';script-src 'self' 'unsafe-eval' telegram.org;base-uri 'self';block-all-mixed-content;font-src 'self' https: data:;frame-ancestors 'self';img-src 'self' data:;object-src 'none';script-src-attr 'none';upgrade-insecure-requests
x-dns-prefetch-control: off
expect-ct: max-age=0
x-frame-options: SAMEORIGIN
strict-transport-security: max-age=15552000; includeSubDomains
x-download-options: noopen
x-content-type-options: nosniff
x-permitted-cross-domain-policies: none
referrer-policy: no-referrer
x-xss-protection: 0
cache-control: public, max-age: 0
etag: W/"cb5-iFGpwk3mDfL0gTfn+GMUM6pwYDg"
vary: Accept-Encoding

Shortcuts:
Some invalid mime values of the type specified with the -t flag
are automatically converted to valid shorthand commands.
If the conversion fails, they remain as they are.

cmd -> 'text/cmd'
css -> 'text/css'
csv -> 'text/csv'
html -> 'text/html'
javascript -> 'text/javascript'
text -> 'text/plain'
php -> 'text/php'
markdown -> 'text/markdown'
cache-manifest -> 'text/cache-manifest'
atom -> 'application/atom+xml'
EDI-X12 -> 'application/EDI-X12'
EDIFACT -> 'application/EDIFACT'
json -> 'application/json'
octet-stream -> 'application/octet-stream'
pdf -> 'application/pdf'
postscript -> 'application/postscript'
ps -> 'application/postscript'
soap -> 'application/soap+xml'
woff -> 'application/font-woff'
xhtml -> 'application/xhtml+xml'
dtd -> 'application/xml-dtd'
xop -> 'application/xop+xml'
bittorrent -> 'application/x-bittorrent'
tex -> 'application/x-tex'
xml -> 'application/xml'
acc -> 'audio/acc'
mp3 -> 'audio/mpeg'
vorbis -> 'audio/vorbis'
gif -> 'image/gif'
jpeg -> 'image/jpeg'
pjpeg -> 'image/pjpeg'
png -> 'image/png'
svg -> 'image/svg+xml'
tiff -> 'image/tiff'
webp -> 'image/webp'
iges -> 'model/iges'
mesh -> 'model/mesh'
vrml -> 'model/vrml'
form-data -> 'multipart/form-data'
quicktime -> 'video/quicktime'
webm -> 'video/webm'

.css -> 'text/css'
.csv -> 'text/csv'
.html -> 'text/html'
.htm -> 'text/html'
.js -> 'text/javascript'
.text -> 'text/plain'
.txt -> 'text/plain'
.php -> 'text/php'
.md -> 'text/markdown'
.json -> 'application/json'
.pdf -> 'application/pdf'
.ps -> 'application/postscript'
.woff -> 'application/font-woff'
.xhtml -> 'application/xhtml+xml'
.dtd -> 'application/xml-dtd'
.zip -> 'application/zip'
.gzip -> 'application/gzip'
.tex -> 'application/x-tex'
.xml -> 'application/xml'
.acc -> 'audio/acc'
.mp3 -> 'audio/mpeg'
.ogg -> 'audio/vorbis'
.gif -> 'image/gif'
.jpeg -> 'image/jpeg'
.jpg -> 'image/jpeg'
.pjpeg -> 'image/pjpeg'
.pjpg -> 'image/pjpeg'
.png -> 'image/png'
.svg -> 'image/svg+xml'
.tiff -> 'image/tiff'
.tif -> 'image/tiff'
.webp -> 'image/webp'
.iges -> 'model/iges'
.igs -> 'model/iges'
.mesh -> 'model/mesh'
.mp4 -> 'video/mp4'
.qtff -> 'video/quicktime'
.webm -> 'video/webm'