meow

meow!

An easy tool for making requests using cURL and following redirects

Usage

meow [options...] <method> <URL>
or
meow [options...] <URL>

When the request can have a body (methods POST, PUT, DELETE, PATCH), then it is read from stdin.
When a successful response has a body, then it is written to stdout.
If the response cannot has a body (methods HEAD, PUT, TRACE), then its headers is written to stdout.
If cURL returns a non-zero exit code, its output is written to stderr without changes.
Methods can be specified in any case (post, POST, POsT, etc).

Allowed methods

• get (defalut)
• head
• post
• put
• delete
• connect
• options
• trace
• patch

Options

• -a, --useragent "<useragent>" – set a user-agent for the request
• -c, --cookie "<cookie>" – set a cookie for the request (can be a filename)
• -C, --save-cookie <filename> – save a cookie from the response to the file
• -h, --header "<key>: <value>" – set a optional header for the request
• -H, --head – get response head instead of body
• -p, --proxy <proxy> – use the proxy
• -r, --referrer <referrer> – set an address making the request
• -t, --type <type> – set a MIME-type of the sending content
• -v, --version – show a version of the tool

Install

Just copy the meow.sh file to /usr/bin/meow

Example

$ BASE=https://sode.su
$ meow get $BASE/@arelive/profile > test
$ cat test && echo  # echo for newline
{"id":287228005,"username":"arelive","searchable":true,"friendable":"public","invitable":"protected","name":"Arelive","type":"user","cover":null,"avatar":"1313402292021605115.png","links":[]}
$ meow $BASE/@0/profile && echo  # with redirect
{"id":0,"username":"anon","searchable":false,"friendable":"private","invitable":"private","name":"","type":"user","cover":null,"avatar":null,"links":[]}
$ meow post $BASE/api/me <<<'' && echo  # unusable without auth
{"status":2}
$ COOKIE="lang=rus; userid=287228005 session=$SECRET_KEY"  # auth
$ cat > data <<<'{"name": "Arelive, the creator of meow console utility"}'
$ meow post -c "$COOKIE" -t application/json $BASE/api/set.profile < data && echo
{"status":0}
# Now the name of profile changed
$ meow -H head $BASE/undefined  # trying to get headers from unresolvable path
HTTP/2 404 
server: Desu
date: Thu, 30 Sep 2021 10:11:08 GMT
content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8
content-length: 3253
content-security-policy: default-src 'self' oauth.telegram.org;style-src 'self';script-src 'self' 'unsafe-eval' telegram.org;base-uri 'self';block-all-mixed-content;font-src 'self' https: data:;frame-ancestors 'self';img-src 'self' data:;object-src 'none';script-src-attr 'none';upgrade-insecure-requests
x-dns-prefetch-control: off
expect-ct: max-age=0
x-frame-options: SAMEORIGIN
strict-transport-security: max-age=15552000; includeSubDomains
x-download-options: noopen
x-content-type-options: nosniff
x-permitted-cross-domain-policies: none
referrer-policy: no-referrer
x-xss-protection: 0
cache-control: public, max-age: 0
etag: W/"cb5-iFGpwk3mDfL0gTfn+GMUM6pwYDg"
vary: Accept-Encoding

Shortcuts

Some invalid mime values of the type specified with the -t flag are automatically converted to valid shorthand commands. If the conversion fails, they remain as they are.

shortcut	replacement
cmd	text/cmd
css	text/css
csv	text/csv
html	text/html
javascript	text/javascript
text	text/plain
php	text/php
markdown	text/markdown
cache-manifest	text/cache-manifest
atom	application/atom+xml
EDI-X12	application/EDI-X12
EDIFACT	application/EDIFACT
json	application/json
octet-stream	application/octet-stream
pdf	application/pdf
postscript	application/postscript
ps	application/postscript
soap	application/soap+xml
woff	application/font-woff
xhtml	application/xhtml+xml
dtd	application/xml-dtd
xop	application/xop+xml
bittorrent	application/x-bittorrent
tex	application/x-tex
xml	application/xml
acc	audio/acc
mp3	audio/mpeg
vorbis	audio/vorbis
gif	image/gif
jpeg	image/jpeg
pjpeg	image/pjpeg
png	image/png
svg	image/svg+xml
tiff	image/tiff
webp	image/webp
iges	model/iges
mesh	model/mesh
vrml	model/vrml
form-data	multipart/form-data
quicktime	video/quicktime
webm	video/webm
.css	text/css
.csv	text/csv
.html	text/html
.htm	text/html
.js	text/javascript
.text	text/plain
.txt	text/plain
.php	text/php
.md	text/markdown
.json	application/json
.pdf	application/pdf
.ps	application/postscript
.woff	application/font-woff
.xhtml	application/xhtml+xml
.dtd	application/xml-dtd
.zip	application/zip
.gzip	application/gzip
.tex	application/x-tex
.xml	application/xml
.acc	audio/acc
.mp3	audio/mpeg
.ogg	audio/vorbis
.gif	image/gif
.jpeg	image/jpeg
.jpg	image/jpeg
.pjpeg	image/pjpeg
.pjpg	image/pjpeg
.png	image/png
.svg	image/svg+xml
.tiff	image/tiff
.tif	image/tiff
.webp	image/webp
.iges	model/iges
.igs	model/iges
.mesh	model/mesh
.mp4	video/mp4
.qtff	video/quicktime
.webm	video/webm