A go curl-like program to send http request from the command line.

• gurl 0.1.0
  • Why Should I Use This Instead of curl or wget?
  • Installation:
    • Linux/Macos
    • Windows
  • Usgae
    • Options
  • Bugs
  • Building

You should not.

This was a fun project I made to better learn golang.

It has no advantages over curl or wget and several disadvantages.

gurl is precompiled for several common platforms and architecturs.

NOTE: installation scripts likely won't work for ARM devices.

There is an install script for those on linux or macos.

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BlazingFire007/gurl/main/install-nix.sh | bash

There is a batch (cmd.exe) script for those on windows.

powershell -Command wget -UseBasicParsing -o install-windows.bat https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BlazingF
ire007/gurl/main/install-windows.bat && call install-windows.bat && del install-windows.bat

It's important to put any command line options BEFORE the url.

gurl [options...] url

Please do not use -l, --loop unless you really know what you're doing. -n, --times will not wait for the previous request to complete before sending the next.

• -A, --user-agent
  • Send User-Agent to server (default "gurl/0.1.0")
• -H, --headers
  • Set headers: "HEADER1::VAL1|||HEADER2::VAL2"
• -c, --cookie
  • set cookie from FILE
• -d, --data
  • HTTP POST data
• -h, --help
  • Show this screen
• -i, --include
  • Include protocol response headers in the output
• -l, --loop
  • Send request until program error. (DO NOT USE: IGNORES ERRORS)
• -n, --times int
  • Number of times to send the request. Max 10,000. (WARNING: ASYNC) (default 1)
• -o, --output
  • Write to file instead of stdout
• -p, --post
  • Send POST request
• -s, --silent
  • Silent
• -u, --upload
  • Transfer local FILE to destination
• -v, --version
  • Display the version of this program

Known bugs:

• downloading a file (with -o, --output) is very unstable and often does not work.
• urls that start with "http" cannot be prefixed with "http://" or "https://"

You can build for your platform by cloning this repo, and running go build .

You must have 'go' installed to build this tool.

An example of what that looks like on *nix systems:

git clone https://github.com/BlazingFire007/gurl.git
cd gurl
go build .