curl statistics made simple
httpstat visualizes
curl(1)statistics in a way of beauty and clarity.
It is a single file🌟 Python script that has no dependency👏 and is compatible with Python 3🍻.
There are three ways to get
httpstat:
Download the script directly:
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/reorx/httpstat/master/httpstat.py
Through pip:
pip install httpstat
Through homebrew (macOS only):
brew install httpstat
For Windows users, @davecheney's Go version is suggested. → download link
Simply:
python httpstat.py httpbin.org/get
If installed through pip or brew, you can use
httpstatas a command:
httpstat httpbin.org/get
Because
httpstatis a wrapper of cURL, you can pass any cURL supported option after the url (except for
-w,
-D,
-o,
-s,
-Swhich are already used by
httpstat):
httpstat httpbin.org/post -X POST --data-urlencode "a=b" -v
httpstathas a bunch of environment variables to control its behavior. Here are some usage demos, you can also run
httpstat --helpto see full explanation.
HTTPSTATSHOWBODY
Set to
trueto show response body in the output, note that body length is limited to 1023 bytes, will be truncated if exceeds. Default is
false.
HTTPSTATSHOWIP
By default httpstat shows remote and local IP/port address. Set to
falseto disable this feature. Default is
true.
HTTPSTATSHOWSPEED
Set to
trueto show download and upload speed. Default is
false.
HTTPSTAT_SHOW_SPEED=true httpstat http://cachefly.cachefly.net/10mb.test... speed_download: 3193.3 KiB/s, speed_upload: 0.0 KiB/s
HTTPSTATSAVEBODY
By default httpstat stores body in a tmp file, set to
falseto disable this feature. Default is
true
HTTPSTATCURLBIN
Indicate the cURL bin path to use. Default is
curlfrom current shell $PATH.
This exampe uses brew installed cURL to make HTTP2 request:
HTTPSTAT_CURL_BIN=/usr/local/Cellar/curl/7.50.3/bin/curl httpstat https://http2.akamai.com/ --http2HTTP/2 200 ...
cURL must be compiled with nghttp2 to enable http2 feature (#12).
HTTPSTATMETRICSONLY
If set to
true, httpstat will only output metrics in json format, this is useful if you want to parse the data instead of reading it.
HTTPSTAT_DEBUG
Set to
trueto see debugging logs. Default is
false
For convenience, you can export these environments in your
.zshrcor
.bashrc, example:
export HTTPSTAT_SHOW_IP=false export HTTPSTAT_SHOW_SPEED=true export HTTPSTAT_SAVE_BODY=false
Here are some implementations in various languages:
This is the Go alternative of httpstat, it's written in pure Go and relies no external programs. Choose it if you like solid binary executions (actually I do).
Other than being a cli tool, this project is used as library to help debugging latency of HTTP requests in Go code, very thoughtful and useful, see more in this article
This is what exactly I want to do at the very beginning, but gave up due to not confident in my bash skill, good job!
b4b4r07 mentioned this in his article, could be used as a HTTP client also.
The PHP implementation by @talhasch
Some code blocks in
httpstatare copied from other projects of mine, have a look:
reorx/python-terminal-color Drop-in single file library for printing terminal color.
reorx/getenv Environment variable definition with type.