PowerCurl

A simple curl-like module for PowerShell.

Why

I've been working with Twilio and a bunch of other rest APIs and wanted an easy way to test them without having to leave Visual Studio. So, I figured why not build a basic curl-like PowerShell module (using the same command-line signature) and deliver it via NuGet so that it can be used via the NuGet Package Manager console.

Usage

Just like curl:

powercurl -X <command> <url> -u <username>:<password>

Thanks to PowerShell, you can also use one of 3 other defined aliases (pcurl, curl, pc):

pcurl -X <command> <url> -u <username>:<password>

or

curl -X <command> <url> -u <username>:<password>

or

pc -X <command> <url> -u <username>:<password>

Example using Twilio Rest API

pcurl -X GET 'https://api.twilio.com/2010-04-01/Accounts/{AccountSid}.xml' -u {AccountSid}:{AuthToken}

or

pcurl -X GET 'https://api.twilio.com/2010-04-01/Accounts/{AccountSid}.json' -u {AccountSid}:{AuthToken}

Benefits of PowerShell

Using the Twilio example above, you could easily parse this xml using:

([xml](pcurl -X GET https://api.twilio.com/2010-04-01/Accounts/{AccountSid}.xml -u {AccountSid}:{AuthToken})).TwilioResponse.Account

PowerShell Output:

Sid             : {AccountSid}
FriendlyName    : {Your Account Name}
Status          : {active | suspended | closed} 
DateCreated     : {DateCreated}
DateUpdated     : {DateUpdated}
AuthToken       : {AuthToken}
Type            : {Type}
Uri             : /2010-04-01/Accounts/{AccountSid}.xml
SubresourceUris : SubresourceUris

Disclaimer

This is by no means a full implementation of all of curl's features. Initially, I plan to support basic HTTP GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, etc. If you want to see more, fork me and feel free to add to it.

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2011 Adam Anderly

License

MS-PL