curly
curly: A replacement for curl which pretty-prints JSON output
Installation
gem install curly
Then you'll have a new command available, curly which can be used in place of curl.
Usage
Use this like you would normally use curl. By default this script adds the -i flag which includes the HTTP headers in the output, which is useful when debugging REST services that return different HTTP codes depending on the response.
Any command line arguments you pass to this script will be handed off to cURL.
Example
curly -d "foo=bar" http://example.com/
curly https://graph.facebook.com/19292868552
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 786 100 786 0 0 2259 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 3144
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
Cache-Control: private, no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate
Content-Type: text/javascript; charset=UTF-8
ETag: "04806e95d2cf191a0e231f2559757767da774bf7"
Expires: Sat, 01 Jan 2000 00:00:00 GMT
Pragma: no-cache
X-FB-Rev: 579367
X-FB-Debug: 8mgUjMq1LsuQS8tjNekLjIOR9uzgIrtkNadqxJGqyFQ=
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 19:44:38 GMT
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: 786
{
"id": "19292868552",
"name": "Facebook Platform",
"picture": "http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-ash2/276791_19292868552_1958181823_s.jpg",
"link": "http://www.facebook.com/platform",
"likes": 4781431,
"cover": {
"cover_id": "10150835335278553",
"source": "http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/s720x720/547890_10150835335278553_344659408_n.jpg",
"offset_y": 32
},
"category": "Product/service",
"is_published": true,
"website": "http://developers.facebook.com",
"username": "platform",
"founded": "2007",
"company_overview": "Facebook Platform enables anyone to build social apps on Facebook and the web.",
"mission": "To make the web more open and social.",
"about": "We're building the social web. Get the latest here: developers.facebook.com ",
"were_here_count": 1,
"talking_about_count": 20095
}