Curl Plus

19.05.2017 — Bash — 1 min read

This script allows the user to run a series of curl commands against single or multiple urls.

The user can choose to either run the script on a single url or a list of urls. When executed, the script first checks the syntax of the parameters it has been passed, before running a series of curl commands on the urls(s).

Example Usage

curlplus [number of requests OR source file] [url{if no source file}]

Sample Output

1oisin@oisin-ThinkPad-T430:~/curlplus$ ./curlplus.sh urllist.txt 
2  test no.1 
3  curl sending get request for http://127.0.0.1:4000/ 
4  Response code:200 Download Size:15457 Connect time:0.000 Total time:0.002
5
6  test no.2 
7  curl sending get request for http://127.0.0.1:4000/python/2016/08/18/collating-and-graphing-olympic-data-with-pandas-and-bokeh.html 
8  Response code:200 Download Size:10436 Connect time:0.000 Total time:0.002
9
10  test no.3 
11  curl sending get request for http://127.0.0.1:4000/python/2016/07/26/james-joyce-twitter-bot.html 
12  Response code:200 Download Size:10565 Connect time:0.000 Total time:0.002
13
14  test no.4 
15  curl sending get request for http://127.0.0.1:4000/node.js/2016/07/20/maintaining-state-in-an-AWS-Lambda-function.html 
16  Response code:200 Download Size:9512 Connect time:0.000 Total time:0.002
17
18  test no.5 
19  curl sending get request for http://127.0.0.1:4000/node.js/2016/07/17/twilio-homer-simpson-autodialer.html 
20  Response code:200 Download Size:9449 Connect time:0.000 Total time:0.002
21
22  test no.6 
23  curl sending get request for http://127.0.0.1:4000/bash/2016/07/10/bash-media-project.html 
24  Response code:200 Download Size:9940 Connect time:0.000 Total time:0.003
25
26  test no.7 
27  curl sending get request for http://127.0.0.1:4000/android/2016/05/17/android-college-project.html 
28  Response code:200 Download Size:9166 Connect time:0.000 Total time:0.002
29
30  test no.8 
31  curl sending get request for http://127.0.0.1:4000/java/2016/05/10/java-college-project.html 
32  Response code:200 Download Size:10570 Connect time:0.000 Total time:0.002
33
34
35
36  overall test results 
37
38  overall_test_duration: .119
39  number_of_tests: 8
40  200_status_count: 8
41  unsuccsessful_transactions: 0
42  average_connection_time: 0
43  download_sum: 85095 bytes

The code for this project can be viewed on Github

There are of course better-established load-testing tools already in existance, such as Siege