load-generator

Generates http(s) load.

Simple usage

Continously calls the URL, with 2 workers.

npx load-generator http://www.example.com/

With 4 workers and with cache buster, {__random__} is replaced by a random number.

npx load-generator --workers 4 http://www.example.com/?random={__random__}

Multiple URLs with randomized language value.

npx load-generator --values lang=de,en,it,fr http://www.example.com/{lang}/ http://www.example.com/{lang}/category/2/?random={__random__}

CLI options

--url

• Type string[]

URLs containing optional placeholders. A placeholder must be in curly braces and will be filled with the corresponding values in the named values option.
Default option This is the default option, the option --url may be ommitted for simplicity.

--values

• Type string[]

Named value lists for placeholders in the URLs. Must follow the following name and comma-separated pattern.
Example, add values for lang: --values "lang=en,de,it,fr"

--header

• Type string[]

HTTP header added to every request.
Example to add cookies: --header "Cookie=name1:value1; name2:value2"
Example JSON Content-Type: --header "Content-Type=application/json"

-p, --porcelain

• Type boolean
• Default false

Output in machine friendly format, no UI.

--pause

• Type int
• Default 0

Pause between each request per worker in millisecons.

--timeout

• Type int
• Default 3000

Request timeout in milliseconds, set to 0 to use system default.

-w, --workers

• Type int
• Default 2

Amount of parallell requesting workers.

-h, --help

Displays help text.

-v, --version

Displays version.

Usage with config file

1.) Create a configuration file, and save it as load-generator.json

In this example, each of the 8 worker picks one URL at the time, fills in placeholders randomly within it's list of values and calls it, one at the time and pauses 100ms in between calls.

{
  "pause": 100,
  "workers": 8,
  "timeout": 1000,
  "urls": [
    "http://www.example.com/{lang}/",
    "http://www.example.com/{lang}/?sort={sort}&page={page}&cachebust={__random__}"
  ],
  "values": {
    "lang": ["de", "fr", "it", "en"],
    "sort": ["1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "7", "8", "10"],
    "page": ["1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "7", "8", "10"]
  },
  "headers": {
    "cookie": "accessToken=1234abc; userId=1234"
  }
}

2.) Run npx load-generator in the same directory.

Hint: Config file and CLI options can be combined, where CLI options always have higher priority over eqivalent config file options.