awesome-console-services

A curated list of awesome console services (reachable via HTTP, HTTPS and other network protocols)

IP address

• curl canihazip.com/s
• curl ipinfo.io/ip
• curl icanhazip.com
• curl curlmyip.net
• curl ipecho.net/plain
• curl ifcfg.me
• curl ip-addr.es
• dig +short myip.opendns.com @resolver1.opendns.com

IP-based geolocation

• curl ipinfo.io/8.8.8.8 or curl ipinfo.io/8.8.8.8/loc
• curl freegeoip.net/csv/8.8.8.8 or freegeoip.net/xml/4.2.2.2 or freegeoip.net/json/github.com

Text Sharing (like pastebin)

• ix.io
• sprunge.us
• ptpb.pw

URL shortener

• curl -s http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url=http://www.google.com

File Transfer

• curl --upload-file <file> transfer.sh/<filename>

Tools

• curl qrenco.de/STRING or echo STRING | curl -F-=\<- qrenco.de — create QR-code for a string (chubin/qrenco.de)

Weather

• curl wttr.in or curl wttr.in/Berlin - the right way to check the weather
• finger oslo@graph.no

Manuals, cheat sheets and FAQs

• curl cheat.sh - UNIX/Linux commands cheat sheets using curl (chubin/cheat.sh)

Dictionaries and translators

• curl 'dict://dict.org/d:command line'

Messages/texts/fortunes/names generators

• git commit -m $(curl -sk https://whatthecommit.com/index.txt) — generate random commit message
• curl -H 'Accept: text/plain' foaas.com/cool/:from — fuck off as a service
• curl -s https://uinames.com/api/?region=france\&amount=25 | jq '.[] | .name +" " + .surname' — generate 25 random french names

Chats, games and fun

• nc towel.blinkenlights.nl 23 — watch StarWars in terminal
• ssh chat.shazow.net — chat over SSH (shazow/ssh-chat)

Clients

At least on of the clients, that you need to access these services, is installed in almost every UNIX/Linux system.

• curl/curl
• httpie — modern command line HTTP client
• wget