imichael/httpstat repository overview

⁠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 environment variables to control its behavior. Here are some usage demos, you can also run httpstat --help to see full explanation.

HTTPSTAT_SHOW_SPEED=true httpstat http://cachefly.cachefly.net/10mb.test

...
speed_download: 3193.3 KiB/s, speed_upload: 0.0 KiB/s

HTTPSTAT_CURL_BIN=/usr/local/Cellar/curl/7.50.3/bin/curl httpstat https://http2.akamai.com/ --http2

HTTP/2 200
...

For convenience, you can export these environments in your .zshrc or .bashrc, example:

export HTTPSTAT_SHOW_IP=false
export HTTPSTAT_SHOW_SPEED=true
export HTTPSTAT_SAVE_BODY=false

⁠Related Projects

Here are some implementations in various languages:

• Go: davecheney/httpstat⁠

  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).

• 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

• 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.

• PHP: talhasch/php-httpstat⁠

  The PHP implementation by @talhasch

Some code blocks in httpstat are 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.