kickroot / acromantula

Acromantula = curl + REPL

acromantula

###Acromantula: Curl with a REPL

Features

• A request REPL
• Persistent and selectable configurations for request parameters, headers, and base URIs
• Support for GET/HEAD/PUT/POST/DELETE methods
• Automatic JSON formatting
• Easy file uploads for PUT/POST
• Automatic content-type detection for uploads

License

Apache 2.0

Upcoming Features

• Proxy support
• Cookie support

Installation

Acromantula is currently available via source installation. If you've got Go installed it's as easy as:

git clone https://github.com/kickroot/acromantula.git
cd acromantula
go install

With this, acromantula will now reside in $GOPATH/bin

Usage

Starting acromantula

$> acromantula
Acromantula 0.1.0-alpha
Hit Ctrl+D to quit
acro >>

Simple Browsing

Just type in the method (GET/POST/PUT/DELETE/HEAD) and the full path to the URL:

acro >> head https://api.github.com

<<  HEAD https://api.github.com
 >  User-Agent : [Acromantula 0.1.0-alpha]

<<  HTTP 200 OK
 <  Access-Control-Allow-Origin : [*]
 <  Access-Control-Expose-Headers : [ETag, Link, X-GitHub-OTP, X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining, X-RateLimit-Reset, X-OAuth-Scopes, X-Accepted-OAuth-Scopes, X-Poll-Interval]
 <  Cache-Control : [public, max-age=60, s-maxage=60]
 <  Content-Length : [2039]
 <  Content-Security-Policy : [default-src 'none']
(full headers snipped)

<<  Content:

acro >>

Posting data

To upload data via POST/PUT, just prepend the filename with an '@'

acro >> post http://myserver.com/upload @/path/to/my/file

Acromantula will automatically guess the content type from the file extension (if available).