httpstat
httpstat visualizes curl(1) statistics in a way of beauty and clarity.
It is a single file? Python script that has no dependency? and is compatible with Python 3?.
Installation
There are three ways to get httpstat:
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Download the script directly:
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/reorx/httpstat/master/httpstat.py -
Through pip:
pip install httpstat -
Through homebrew (macOS only):
brew install httpstat
For Windows users, @davecheney's Go version is suggested. → download link
Usage
Simply:
python httpstat.py httpbin.org/get
If installed through pip or brew, you can use httpstat as a command:
httpstat httpbin.org/get
cURL Options
Because httpstat is a wrapper of cURL, you can pass any cURL supported option after the url (except for -w, -D, -o, -s, -S which are already used by httpstat):
httpstat httpbin.org/post -X POST --data-urlencode "a=b" -v
Environment Variables
httpstat has a bunch of environment variables to control its behavior.
Here are some usage demos, you can also run httpstat --help to see full explanation.
Set to true to show response body in the output, note that body length
is limited to 1023 bytes, will be truncated if exceeds. Default is false.
By default httpstat shows remote and local IP/port address.
Set to false to disable this feature. Default is true.
Set to true to show download and upload speed. Default is false.
HTTPSTAT_SHOW_SPEED=true httpstat http://cachefly.cachefly.net/10mb.test
...
speed_download: 3193.3 KiB/s, speed_upload: 0.0 KiB/s
By default httpstat stores body in a tmp file,
set to false to disable this feature. Default is true
Indicate the cURL bin path to use. Default is curl from current shell $PATH.
This exampe uses brew installed cURL to make HTTP2 request:
HTTPSTAT_CURL_BIN=/usr/local/Cellar/curl/7.50.3/bin/curl httpstat https://http2.akamai.com/ --http2
HTTP/2 200
...
cURL must be compiled with nghttp2 to enable http2 feature
(#12).
Set to true to see debugging logs. Default is false
For convenience, you can export these environments in your .zshrc or .bashrc,
example:
export HTTPSTAT_SHOW_IP=false
export HTTPSTAT_SHOW_SPEED=true
export HTTPSTAT_SAVE_BODY=false
Related Projects
Here are some implementations in various languages:
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This is the Go alternative of httpstat, it's written in pure Go and relies no external programs. Choose it if you like solid binary executions (actually I do).
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Go (library): tcnksm/go-httpstat
Other than being a cli tool, this project is used as library to help debugging latency of HTTP requests in Go code, very thoughtful and useful, see more in this article
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Bash: b4b4r07/httpstat
This is what exactly I want to do at the very beginning, but gave up due to not confident in my bash skill, good job!
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Node: yosuke-furukawa/httpstat
b4b4r07 mentioned this in his article, could be used as a HTTP client also.
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The PHP implementation by @talhasch
Some code blocks in httpstat are copied from other projects of mine, have a look:
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reorx/python-terminal-color Drop-in single file library for printing terminal color.
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reorx/getenv Environment variable definition with type.