httpstat

httpstat visualizes curl(1) statistics in a way of beauty and clarity.

It is a single file🌟 Python script that has no dependency👏 and is compatible with Python 3🍻.

Installation

There are three ways to get httpstat:

• Download the script directly: wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/reorx/httpstat/master/httpstat.py

• Through pip: pip install httpstat

• Through homebrew (macOS only): brew install httpstat

Usage

Simply:

python httpstat.py httpbin.org/get

If installed through pip or brew, you can use httpstat as a command:

httpstat httpbin.org/get

cURL Options

Because httpstat is a wrapper of cURL, you can pass any cURL supported option after the url (except for -w, -D, -o, -s, -S which are already used by httpstat):

httpstat httpbin.org/post -X POST --data-urlencode "a=b" -v

Environment Variables

httpstat has a bunch of env vars to control its behavior. Here are some usage demos, you can also run httpstat --help to see full explanation.

HTTPSTAT_SHOW_BODY

Set to true to show resposne body in the output, note that body length is limited to 1023 bytes, will be truncated if exceeds. Default is false.

HTTPSTAT_SHOW_SPEED

Set to true to show download and upload speed. Default is false.

HTTPSTAT_SHOW_SPEED=true httpstat http://cachefly.cachefly.net/10mb.test

...
speed_download: 3193.3 KiB/s, speed_upload: 0.0 KiB/s

HTTPSTAT_SAVE_BODY

By default httpstat stores body in a tmp file, set to false to disable this feature. Default is true

HTTPSTAT_CURL_BIN

Indicate the cURL bin path to use. Default is curl from current shell $PATH.

This exampe uses brew installed cURL to make HTTP2 request:

HTTPSTAT_CURL_BIN=/usr/local/Cellar/curl/7.50.3/bin/curl httpstat https://http2.akamai.com/ --http2

HTTP/2 200
...

cURL must be compiled with nghttp2 to enable http2 feature (#12).

HTTPSTAT_DEBUG

Set to true to see debugging logs. Default is false

Related Projects

Here are some implementations in various languages:

• Bash: b4b4r07/httpstat

  This is what exactly I want to do at the very beginning, but gave up due to not confident in my bash skill, good job!

• Node: yosuke-furukawa/httpstat

  b4b4r07 mentioned this in his article, could be used as a HTTP client also.

• Go: davecheney/httpstat

  I'm practicing Go recently, it's happy to read and learn from this one.

• Go (library): tcnksm/go-httpstat

  Other than being a cli tool, this project is used as library to help debugging latency of HTTP requests in Go code, very thoughtful and useful, see more in this article

Some code blocks in httpstat are copied from other projects of mine, have a look:

• reorx/python-terminal-color Drop-in single file library for printing terminal color.

• reorx/getenv Environment variable definition with type.