Hiya HN!
Just released Artillery Probe - a Swiss army knife for testing HTTP from the CLI. Think mini-curl with better UX for common use-cases, plus a couple of extra features.
Would love for you to try it and give some feedback!
https://www.artillery.io/blog/swiss-army-knife-for-http-testing
and:
npm install artillery@latest
What does it do?
- First of all, it's a HTTP client! It does all the usual stuff you'd expect from a HTTP client... HTTP methods, request bodies, custom headers, forms, Basic Auth etc.
- Got some JSON or XML back? It'll pretty-print it, and syntax highlight it for you.
- It'll show you request waterfalls like this one: (inspired by httpstat)
DNS Lookup | TCP Connection | SSL Handshake | Time to First Byte | Content Transfer
56ms | 14ms | 19ms | 181ms | 88ms |
| | | | |
56ms | | | |
70ms | | |
89ms | |
270ms |
total:358ms
- JSON responses can be queried and sliced and diced with JMESPath (same syntax as AWS CLI) - no need to reach for jq. XML & HTML may be queried with a jQuery-like syntax too.
- You can set expectations on the response, e.g. have the CLI check that the response is a 200, or that a certain header is set, and exit with non-zero code if not. Super handy for quick acceptance testing.
We've got lots of ideas for improvements, but would love to hear what you think!
Just released Artillery Probe - a Swiss army knife for testing HTTP from the CLI. Think mini-curl with better UX for common use-cases, plus a couple of extra features.
Would love for you to try it and give some feedback!
https://www.artillery.io/blog/swiss-army-knife-for-http-testing
and:
What does it do?- First of all, it's a HTTP client! It does all the usual stuff you'd expect from a HTTP client... HTTP methods, request bodies, custom headers, forms, Basic Auth etc.
- Got some JSON or XML back? It'll pretty-print it, and syntax highlight it for you.
- It'll show you request waterfalls like this one: (inspired by httpstat)
- JSON responses can be queried and sliced and diced with JMESPath (same syntax as AWS CLI) - no need to reach for jq. XML & HTML may be queried with a jQuery-like syntax too.- You can set expectations on the response, e.g. have the CLI check that the response is a 200, or that a certain header is set, and exit with non-zero code if not. Super handy for quick acceptance testing.
We've got lots of ideas for improvements, but would love to hear what you think!