Keeping the tedious fun with Curl.

Daniel Florido — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 05:27:24 +0000

I like to keep the day job fun and productive by semi automating the everyday tediousness of web development.
The main reason I use curl is to search a file to see if a webpage has the desired string or not.
Its nice to be able to stay on the commandline to do this as its quicker then the manual process of

open chrome,
right click,
view source code,
command f to find the string
bang head against monitor

Running the curl function below allows me to open the returned html in my favourite code editor, Vim.

This way i can easily search the returned source code by simple typing '/string_name'.

function to add to bash_profile

#get and open webpage html
#provide url as param
#keep it simple - doesnt work if you make it too complicated
function get_html() {
   cd ~/Downloads
    rm curled_html.html
    curl $1 -H "Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate" -H "Pragma: no-cache" -H "Expires: 0" > curled_html.html
    vim curled_html.html
}

Now run

get_html https://example.com

Forem: Daniel Florido

Keeping the tedious fun with Curl.

function to add to bash_profile