Tag: command-line

Cement: Python framework for building command-line applications

Image of Plant growing through a hole in cement

http://builtoncement.com/

From the Cement website:

Building backend tools, and command line applications shouldn’t be a tedious task. Cement provides a light-weight and fully featured foundation to build anything from single file scripts to complex and intricately designed applications. Out of the box, your application has built-in support for configuration files, command line arguments, logging, daemonization, plugins, output rendered from template (such as Mustache, or Genshi), caching, hooks, signal handling, and so much more.

htty: Ruby console application for interacting with web servers

htty screenshot

http://htty.github.io/htty/ ᔥ

From the htty home page:

Features

  • Intuitive, Tab-completed commands and command aliases
  • Support for familiar HTTP methods GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE, as well as PATCH, HEAD, OPTIONS and TRACE
  • Support for HTTP Secure connections and HTTP Basic Authentication
  • Automatic URL-encoding of userinfo, paths, query-string parameters, and page fragments
  • Transcripts, both verbose and summary
  • Scripting via stdin
  • Dead-simple cookie handling and redirect following
  • Built-in help

The things you can do with htty are:

  • Build a request — you can tweak the address, headers, cookies, and body at will
  • Send the request to the server — after the request is sent, it remains unchanged in your session history
  • Inspect the server’s response — you can look at the status, headers, cookies, and body in various ways
  • Review history — a normal and a verbose transcript of your session are available at all times (destroyed when you quit htty)
  • Reuse previous requests — you can refer to prior requests and copy them