curl-cmd

Generate a curl command line argument list from an http request object

Install

npm install curl-cmd

Example

Taken from the Node.JS example for an HTTP get request

var http = require('http');
var curl = require('curl-cmd');

var options = {
  hostname: 'ifconfig.me',
  port: 80,
  path: '/ip',
  method: 'GET'
};

console.log('=> %s', curl.cmd(options));

http.request(options, function(res) {
  console.log('STATUS: ' + res.statusCode);
  console.log('HEADERS: ' + JSON.stringify(res.headers));
  res.setEncoding('utf8');
  res.on('data', function (chunk) {
    console.log('BODY: ' + chunk);
  });
}).end();

The line curl.cmd(options) is the interesting part as that will generate the curl command seen in the output

=> curl -X GET http://ifconfig.me:80/ip
STATUS: 200
HEADERS: {"date":"Thu, 06 Jun 2013 16:56:30 GMT","server":"Apache","vary":"Accept-Encoding","connection":"close","transfer-encoding":"chunked","content-type":"text/plain"}
BODY: 8.8.8.8

Simple Example

> var curl = require('curl-cmd')
undefined

> curl.cmd('http://www.daveeddy.com/something')
'curl -X GET http://www.daveeddy.com/something'

> curl.cmd({host: 'daveeddy.com', port: 8080, method: 'DELETE', path: '/data/something'})
'curl -X DELETE http://daveeddy.com:8080/data/something'

> curl.cmd({host: 'daveeddy.com', port: 8080, method: 'DELETE', path: '/data/something', headers: { 'User-Agent': 'Internet Explorer'} })
'curl -X DELETE -H \'User-Agent: Internet Explorer\' http://daveeddy.com:8080/data/something'

> curl.cmd({host: 'daveeddy.com', port: 8080, method: 'DELETE', path: '/data/something', headers: { 'User-Agent': 'Internet Explorer'}, auth: 'dave:secret' })
'curl -X DELETE -u dave:secret -H \'User-Agent: Internet Explorer\' http://daveeddy.com:8080/data/something'

> curl.cmd({host: 'daveeddy.com', port: 8080, method: 'PUT', path: '/data/something', headers: { 'User-Agent': 'Internet Explorer'}, auth: 'dave:secret' }, {ssl: true, verbose: true})
'curl -X PUT -u dave:secret -H \'User-Agent: Internet Explorer\' -v https://daveeddy.com:8080/data/something'

Usage

Pass in a URI as a string, a url.parsed() object, or an object suitable for making an HTTP request as the first argument to get the curl command.

curl.cmd(options, curlopts={})

This returns a stringified curl command suitable for running on the shell

curl.args(options, curlopts={})

Same as above, except returns an array of separate arguments to use for the curl command

curlopts

The optional second argument is used to pass options to curl

• curlopts.ssl: set to true to use HTTPS instead of HTTP, defaults to false
• curlopts.verbose: set to true to add -v to the curl command, defaults to false
• curlopts.headers: set to true to add -i to the curl command, defaults to false
• curlopts.options: an optional array of arguments to add to the curl command, defaults to []

License

MIT