curlz

a curl wrapper with placeholder, bookmark and environment powers just like postman but for the terminal

Features

• variables from .env and .yaml environment files
• ️placeholder evaluation using the minijinja template engine, which can be used in URLs, HTTP headers, the HTTP body, and other passed curl parameters
• ability to save requests as bookmarks and execute them by a shortname
• support any curl argument after a --, that makes a drop-in-replacement for curl
• special placeholders to interact on the terminal
  • prompt for a password as {{ prompt_password() }} read more..
  • prompt for interactive input with a label as {{ prompt_for("Username") }} read more..
• ️special placeholder for developers, like Json Web Tokens (JWT) or Basic-Auth
• send a http body via -d | --data or send json payload (with headers) via --json

WIP

• [⏳] support rest client template language see #5 check out the examples folder for more infos

Example #1

In this example we're going to download a pre-configured .gitignore for a given language from GitHub via curl

• curl https://api.github.com/gitignore/templates/Rust
• the same with curlz: curlz r https://api.github.com/gitignore/templates/Rust
• Add a placeholder that is interactively requested curlz r 'https://api.github.com/gitignore/templates/{{ prompt_for("Language") | title }}'
• Now let's bookmark this request:

  curlz r --bookmark 'https://api.github.com/gitignore/templates/{{ prompt_for("Language") | title }}'
  Language: rust
  Please enter a bookmark name: gitignore
  

• Finally, we can keep using the bookmark from now on: curlz r gitignore

Template function documentation

Please read the book to learn more about the template functions