httpstat

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🍻.

Installation

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

Usage

Simply:

python httpstat.py httpbin.org/get

If installed through pip or brew, you can use httpstat as a command:

httpstat httpbin.org/get

cURL Options

Because httpstat is a wrapper of cURL, you can pass any cURL supported option after the url (except for -w, -D, -o, -s, -S which are already used by httpstat):

httpstat httpbin.org/post -X POST --data-urlencode "a=b" -v

Environment Variables

httpstat has a bunch of env vars to control its behavior. Here are some usage demos, you can also run httpstat --help to see full explanation.

By default httpstat stores response body in a temp file rather than shows it, by setting HTTPSTAT_SHOW_BODY=true you can make httpstat print the body out:

HTTPSTAT_SHOW_BODY=true httpstat httpbin.org/get

If you don't want response body being stored automatically, you can set HTTPSTAT_SAVE_BODY=false to prevent it:

HTTPSTAT_SAVE_BODY=false httpstat httpbin.org/get

Set HTTPSTAT_SHOW_SPEED=true to display download & upload speed.

Set HTTPSTAT_DEBUD=true to display debug logs for troubleshooting.

Related Projects

Here are some implementations in various languages:

• Bash: b4b4r07/httpstat

  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!

• Node: yosuke-furukawa/httpstat

  b4b4r07 mentioned this in his article, could be used as a HTTP client also.

• Go: davecheney/httpstat

  I'm practicing Go recently, it's happy to read and learn from this one.

• Go (library): tcnksm/go-httpstat

  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