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Bash REST API client

A set of class like functions with a http. prefix. This is a bash solution to script REST API calls.

The specialties of this component are

  • It was build to simplify http calls and handle http response for scripts
  • After making a request the response stays is in memory. There is no output to any file to grep something or to cleanup after usage.
  • Its functions feel a bit like class methods, i.e. http.getResponse to get the response body or http.getResponseHeader for the Http response header
  • This component wraps curl - it supports any http method
  • works with anonymous requests and authentication / authorization: (Basic authentication, Authorization header (tokens, NTLM) or any other request header variable
  • The response can be stored ... and reimported later. After import you can use the http.get* functions to fetch results from the former request.
  • Caching support for GET requests with a given TTL: if you repeat a request to the same url and ttl was not reached yet then you continue with the cached result

👤 Author: Axel Hahn; Institute for Medical Education; University of Bern
📄 Source: https://git-repo.iml.unibe.ch/iml-open-source/bash-rest-api-client
📜 License: GNU GPL 3.0
📗 Docs: https://os-docs.iml.unibe.ch/bash-rest-api-client/

Screenshot

Screenshot - example script