Just use curl dammit!
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This has been solved since 1999. Read the manual.
The deeper I get into Linux, the more I feel exactly this about most software in general. We just love reinventing the wheel, don’t we?
I have been working as a professional in the dev space for over 25 years. I have contributed to developing the same software over a dozen times, some even at the same company. Over time the tools have changed, the people have changed and my role has changed. But the overall specs have remained very similar if not the exact same.
Recently I did a job for a company where I was a consultant on a large project, they specifically sought me out for my expertise in the subject matter (having been involved in many similar projects). One of the C suites left the company near the end of the project, no reason given. This week he contacted me, he is now a C suite at another big company. They want to do the exact same project and want to hire me because of my expertise. I laughed my ass off, but am very happy with the work and he is a good guy (as far as C suites can be at least).
That’s a great story lmao So it’s DRY… unless you’re getting paid to do it? 😂
-Curl "https://justuse.org/curl/"
-Returns a ton of html stuff
Can't even comply with their own argument.
Follow redirects? curl -L
Follow redirects? curl -L
still gives HTML
Yeah? That's what the response is. What do you expect?
I think they're point is that curl is great but then you have to have a way to render it to know if it's correct. With apis you can use jq, but yeah a dump of html isn't really useful to humans
Oh. Fair enough. The intent for curl is definitely to display the HTML as it's whole point.
Anyways.
curl -L -o "/tmp/your.html" https://justuse.org/curl && librewolf "/tmp/your.html"
Yeah but we're talking about API tools, not web browsers. People are using postman to see JSON, XML, or whatever horrible format the devs on the other side chose to use, not to render HTML graphically. If you query an HTML page using curl, you should get the HTML back, I don't see what's the problem
I tried the suggestion and saw that the original complaint persisted.
I didn't think anything to be honest.
I tried the suggestion and saw that the original complaint persisted.
I didn't expect anything to be honest.
here ya go.
curl cheat.sh/curl
It would be fun to create a CURL converter. Just simple aliases or conversion tool.
I just looked it up, looks like there may be something like it here: https://github.com/christianhelle/curlgenerator
I like the look of this: https://www.createopenapi.com/
Ok OP, just tell us what API tool you're building.
I thought no one would ask :) just open sourced it a few weeks ago. But I promise I will never pay someone to praise it pretending to be a developer.
Same thing with every single tool. 90% of posts have hidden promotion. If not direct, then in the comments OP will “recommend”. If not in the comments - they are playing long game and wait to gain trust.