Crul is a curl replacement, that is, it's a command line HTTP client. It has fewer features and options, but it aims to be more user friendly. It's heavily inspired by httpie.
It's written in the Crystal language. It's in an early stage but it allows already basic usage.
- Fast
- No dependencies, easy to install
- Basic HTTP features (method, request body, headers)
- Syntax highlighting of the output (JSON and XML)
- Basic authentication
- Cookie store
- Bash completion of commands and options
- User friendly headers and request body generation (similar to httpie's)
- Digest authentication
- More fancy stuff
brew tap porras/crul
brew install crul
Or, if you want to install the latest, unreleased version:
brew tap porras/tap
brew install crul --HEAD
There is an APT repository with signed packages of the latest crul version. To setup this repo and install crul, run the following commands (as root or with sudo):
apt-key adv --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys ED2715FE
echo "deb http://iamserg.io/deb packages main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/iamserg.io.list
apt-get update
apt-get install crul
See how to install from source below.
If there are no binary packages for your OS version, you can install crul downloading the zip or tarball and building it from source. See
Development for instructions.
After installation, add this line to your .bashrc (only Bash supported at this moment):
eval "$(crul --completion)"
You don't need this if you installed via Homebrew (it's automatic).
Usage: crul [method] URL [options]
HTTP methods (default: GET):
get, GET Use GET
post, POST Use POST
put, PUT Use PUT
delete, DELETE Use DELETE
HTTP options:
-d DATA, --data DATA Request body
-d @file, --data @file Request body (read from file)
-H HEADER, --header HEADER Set header
-a USER:PASS, --auth USER:PASS Basic auth
-c FILE, --cookies FILE Use FILE as cookie store (reads and writes)
Response formats (default: autodetect):
-j, --json Format response as JSON
-x, --xml Format response as XML
-p, --plain Format response as plain text
Other options:
-h, --help Show this help
-V, --version Display version
$ crul http://httpbin.org/get?a=b
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 07:57:33 GMT
Content-type: application/json
Content-length: 179
Connection: keep-alive
Access-control-allow-origin: *
Access-control-allow-credentials: true
{
"args": {
"a": "b"
},
"headers": {
"Content-Length": "0",
"Host": "httpbin.org"
},
"origin": "188.103.25.204",
"url": "http://httpbin.org/get?a=b"
}
$ crul put http://httpbin.org/put -d '{"a":"b"}' -H Content-Type:application/json
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 07:58:54 GMT
Content-type: application/json
Content-length: 290
Connection: keep-alive
Access-control-allow-origin: *
Access-control-allow-credentials: true
{
"args": {},
"data": "{\"a\":\"b\"}",
"files": {},
"form": {},
"headers": {
"Content-Length": "9",
"Content-Type": "application/json",
"Host": "httpbin.org"
},
"json": {
"a": "b"
},
"origin": "188.103.25.204",
"url": "http://httpbin.org/put"
}
You'll need Crystal 0.33 installed (it might work with older or newer versions, but that's the one that's tested).
After checking out the repo (or decompressing the tarball with the source code), run shards to get
the development dependencies, and make to run the tests and compile the source. Optionally, you
can run make install to install it (as a default, in /usr/local/bin, override it running
PREFIX=/opt/whatever make install).
- Fork it ( https://github.com/porras/crul/fork )
- Create your feature branch (
git checkout -b my-new-feature) - Commit your changes (
git commit -am 'Add some feature') - Push to the branch (
git push origin my-new-feature) - Create a new Pull Request
You can also contribute by trying it and reporting any issue you find.
Copyright (c) 2015-2016 Sergio Gil. See LICENSE for details.