curlinator

README

curlinator

URL download helper service

Setup

Prerequisites

Install Go for your platform: https://golang.org

I recommend gimme: https://github.com/travis-ci/gimme

mkdir -p ~/bin
curl -sL -o ~/bin/gimme https://raw.githubusercontent.com/travis-ci/gimme/master/gimme
chmod +x ~/bin/gimme

Download

Clone this repository into the src directory of your $GOPATH (default: ~/go/src):

git clone https://github.com/thomasheller/curlinator ~/go/src/github.com/thomasheller/curlinator

Build

eval $(~/bin/gimme stable)
cd ~/go/src/github.com/thomasheller/curlinator
go get
go build

Deploy as systemd service

• Put the curlinator binary in /usr/local/bin
• Put the curlinator.service file in /lib/systemd/system
• Add user and group curlinator and create the /var/curlinator directory (useradd -U -m -d /var/curlinator curlinator)

Enable service:

systemctl enable curlinator
service curlinator start
service curlinator status

Usage

curl -d '{"url":"https://www.example.com"}' 'http://localhost:8000/add'

curl -d '{"url":"https://www.example.com"}' 'http://localhost:8000/delete'

curl 'http://localhost:8000/list'

curl 'http://localhost:8000/status'

Downloaded URLs will appear in /var/curlinator.

Use journalctl -fu curlinator to follow systemd logs.