Pysty

A command line interface for working with RESTful services.

Requirements

• Python 2.6
• pygments

Note for OS X

A small hack for using GNU readline instead of libedit in OS X:

# sudo easy_install install readline
# export PYTHONPATH=/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages

Features

• Supports GET, POST, PUT and DELETE
• Readline support with tab-completion and reverse search history
• Automatic cookie session handling
• Syntax highlighting for all types of markup or data formats, e.g. JSON, HTML, etc.
• Pretty printing JSON
• Transparently decompress gzip responses

Usage

# pysty --base-url=http://api.stackoverflow.com
http://api.stackoverflow.com> GET /0.9/questions
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
GET http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.9/questions
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
{
  "questions": [
    {
      "title": "Even Spaced Primary / Secondary Columns in Rails",
      "question_id": 3177269,
      ...
    },
    ...
  ]
}

Once you set the base_url, it sticks for next time you run it:

# pysty
http://api.stackoverflow.com> GET /0.9/questions

By default, pysty sets some additional HTTP request headers for you:

> header_list
Content-Type application/json
Accept application/json

But.. you can add/modify them to your needs:

> header_set Accept application/xml