POST using Bash in Script - bash

I am currently writing a script which gets a cookie and unique URL from a website, then uses that cookie and URL to post login/password information.
I am having trouble in getting this to work, some of the runs I have done gives me the message "switching from POST to GET" and I can't understand why.
Can someone please help me?
for i in $(cat accounts.txt); do
rm out.out
curl -L -b cookies.txt -c cookies.txt https://website.com | grep -Eo "(http|https)://cookies.website.com/idp[a-zA-Z0-9./?=_-]*" >> out.out
url=`head -1 out.out`
content="$(curl -X POST -L -v -b cookies.txt -d "$i" "$url" )"
echo "$url" "$i" "$content"
done

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BASH SCRIPT output doesn't export in file

i just stuck with my self coded application calling ws command (web socket) and i'm trying to export the output. Also i want to exit wscat when it's finished after sometime of input from API from the JSON backend devlopment
#!/bin/bash
while getopts a:c: flag
do
case "${flag}" in
a) accesskey=${OPTARG};;
c) clientnodeid=${OPTARG};;
esac
done
master="wscat -c ws://localhost:8091/ws/callback -H accessKey:$accesskey -H clientNodeId:$clientnodeid"
sleep 15
eval $master
final=$(eval echo "$master")
echo $final >>logfile.log
ps -ef | grep wscat | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill
#curl -X POST --data "$final" -k "https://localhost:7460/activate" -H "accept: application/json" -H "accessKey:$accesskey" -H "clientNodeId:$clientnodeid" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "callbackRequested:true"
exit
I want to call then output from wscat to sent over curl
When i run the script manually it got success but when i call it from another application (java) it's it running but not generating log.
With all words, i want to export $final to text file and that text file i should import it to --data of curl calling
Fixed based on #Barmar's comment:
You're overcomplicating this with all those variables. Just do
eval "$master" >> logfile.log

Using wget in shell trouble with variable that has \

I'm trying to run a script for pulling finance history from yahoo. Boris's answer from this thread
wget can't download yahoo finance data any more
works for me ~2 out of 3 times, but fails if the crumb returned from the cookie has a "\" character in it.
Code that sometimes works looks like this
#!usr/bin/sh
symbol=$1
today=$(date +%Y%m%d)
tomorrow=$(date --date='1 days' +%Y%m%d)
first_date=$(date -d "$2" '+%s')
last_date=$(date -d "$today" '+%s')
wget --no-check-certificate --save-cookies=cookie.txt https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/$symbol/?p=$symbol -O C:/trip/stocks/stocknamelist/crumb.store
crumb=$(grep 'root.*App' crumb.store | sed 's/,/\n/g' | grep CrumbStore | sed 's/"CrumbStore":{"crumb":"\(.*\)"}/\1/')
echo $crumb
fileloc=$"https://query1.finance.yahoo.com/v7/finance/download/$symbol?period1=$first_date&period2=$last_date&interval=1d&events=history&crumb=$crumb"
echo $fileloc
wget --no-check-certificate --load-cookies=cookie.txt $fileloc -O c:/trip/stocks/temphistory/hs$symbol.csv
rm cookie.txt crumb.store
But that doesn't seem to process in wget the way I intend either, as it seems to be interpreting as described here:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/758080/getting-scheme-missing-error-with-wget
Any suggestions on how to pass the $crumb variable into wget so that wget doesn't error out if $crumb has a "\" character in it?
Edited to show the full script. To clarify I've got cygwin installed with wget package. I call the script from cmd prompt as (example where the script above is named "stocknamedownload.sh, the stock symbol I'm downloading is "A" from the startdate 19800101)
c:\trip\stocks\StockNameList>bash stocknamedownload.sh A 19800101
This script seems to work fine - unless the crumb returned contains a "\" character in it.
The following implementation appears to work 100% of the time -- I'm unable to reproduce the claimed sporadic failures:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -o pipefail
symbol=$1
today=$(date +%Y%m%d)
tomorrow=$(date --date='1 days' +%Y%m%d)
first_date=$(date -d "$2" '+%s')
last_date=$(date -d "$today" '+%s')
# store complete webpage text in a variable
page_text=$(curl --fail --cookie-jar cookies \
"https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/$symbol/?p=$symbol") || exit
# extract the JSON used by JavaScript in the page
app_json=$(grep -e 'root.App.main = ' <<<"$page_text" \
| sed -e 's#^root.App.main = ##' \
-e 's#[;]$##') || exit
# use jq to extract the crumb from that JSON
crumb=$(jq -r \
'.context.dispatcher.stores.CrumbStore.crumb' \
<<<"$app_json" | tr -d '\r') || exit
# Perform our actual download
fileloc="https://query1.finance.yahoo.com/v7/finance/download/$symbol?period1=$first_date&period2=$last_date&interval=1d&events=history&crumb=$crumb"
curl --fail --cookie cookies "$fileloc" >"hs$symbol.csv"
Note that the tr -d '\r' is only necessary when using a native-Windows jq mixed with an otherwise native-Cygwin set of tools.
You are adding quotes to the value of the variable instead of quoting the expansion. You are also trying to use tools that don't know what JSON is to process JSON; use jq.
wget --no-check-certificate \
--save-cookies=cookie.txt \
"https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/$symbol/?p=$symbol" \
-O C:/trip/stocks/stocknamelist/crumb.store
# Something like thist; it's hard to reverse engineer the structure
# of crumb.store from your pipeline.
crumb=$(jq 'CrumbStore.crumb' crumb.store)
echo "$crumb"
fileloc="https://query1.finance.yahoo.com/v7/finance/download/$symbol?period1=$first_date&period2=$last_date&interval=1d&events=history&crumb=$crumb"
echo "$fileloc"
wget --no-check-certificate \
--load-cookies=cookie.txt "$fileloc" \
-O c:/trip/stocks/temphistory/hs$symbol.csv

How Extract the http code, size header and title from website in bash?

With curl I'm extracting the %{http_code} %{size_header} %{redirect_url} and it works great but, I also like to add the website title to the Bash response.
usage: check-website.sh website-list.txt
#!/bin/bash
FILE="$1"
while read LINE; do
curl -H 'Cache-Control: no-cache' -i -s -k -o /dev/null --silent --max-time 2 --write-out '%{http_code} %{size_header} %{redirect_url}' "$LINE"
echo " $LINE"
done < ${FILE}
I was looking on extracting the titles with this curl command:
curl -s example.com | grep -o "<title>[^<]*" | cut -d'>' -f2-
but I'm not sure on how to do this, in order to get the bash output like:
%{http_code} %{size_header} %{redirect_url} $website_title
Can anyone help me to join the title?
Instead of redirecting to /dev/null you can redirect to your grep command. Note that you should use the case insensitive grep option. I also added an extra space at the end of your --write-out:
curl -H 'Cache-Control: no-cache' -i -s -k -o >(grep -io "<title>[^<]*" | cut -d'>' -f2-) --silent --max-time 2 --write-out '%{http_code} %{size_header} %{redirect_url} ' "$LINE"

Check if url returns 200 using bash

I need to check if the remote file exists based on the url response by doing:
curl -u myself:XXXXXX -Is https://mylink/path/to/file | head -1
What can give something like these:
'HTTP/1.1 200 OK
'
or
'HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
'
Now, I want to extract the http status code like 200 from the resulting string above and assign the number to a variable. How can I do that?
Use the -o option to send the headers to /dev/null, and use the -w option to output only the status.
$ curl -o /dev/null -u myself:XXXXXX -Isw '%{http_code}\n' https://mylink/path/to/file
200
$
If you intended to capture the status to a variable, you can omit the newline from the format.
$ status=$(curl ... -o /dev/null -Isw '%{http_code}' ...)
Use grep:
curl -u myself:XXXXXX -Is https://mylink/path/to/file | head -1 | grep -o '[0-9][0-9][0-9]'
Nice and simple:
curl --output /dev/null --silent --head --fail http://google.com

Script to get the HTTP status code of a list of urls?

I have a list of URLS that I need to check, to see if they still work or not. I would like to write a bash script that does that for me.
I only need the returned HTTP status code, i.e. 200, 404, 500 and so forth. Nothing more.
EDIT Note that there is an issue if the page says "404 not found" but returns a 200 OK message. It's a misconfigured web server, but you may have to consider this case.
For more on this, see Check if a URL goes to a page containing the text "404"
Curl has a specific option, --write-out, for this:
$ curl -o /dev/null --silent --head --write-out '%{http_code}\n' <url>
200
-o /dev/null throws away the usual output
--silent throws away the progress meter
--head makes a HEAD HTTP request, instead of GET
--write-out '%{http_code}\n' prints the required status code
To wrap this up in a complete Bash script:
#!/bin/bash
while read LINE; do
curl -o /dev/null --silent --head --write-out "%{http_code} $LINE\n" "$LINE"
done < url-list.txt
(Eagle-eyed readers will notice that this uses one curl process per URL, which imposes fork and TCP connection penalties. It would be faster if multiple URLs were combined in a single curl, but there isn't space to write out the monsterous repetition of options that curl requires to do this.)
wget --spider -S "http://url/to/be/checked" 2>&1 | grep "HTTP/" | awk '{print $2}'
prints only the status code for you
Extending the answer already provided by Phil. Adding parallelism to it is a no brainer in bash if you use xargs for the call.
Here the code:
xargs -n1 -P 10 curl -o /dev/null --silent --head --write-out '%{url_effective}: %{http_code}\n' < url.lst
-n1: use just one value (from the list) as argument to the curl call
-P10: Keep 10 curl processes alive at any time (i.e. 10 parallel connections)
Check the write_out parameter in the manual of curl for more data you can extract using it (times, etc).
In case it helps someone this is the call I'm currently using:
xargs -n1 -P 10 curl -o /dev/null --silent --head --write-out '%{url_effective};%{http_code};%{time_total};%{time_namelookup};%{time_connect};%{size_download};%{speed_download}\n' < url.lst | tee results.csv
It just outputs a bunch of data into a csv file that can be imported into any office tool.
This relies on widely available wget, present almost everywhere, even on Alpine Linux.
wget --server-response --spider --quiet "${url}" 2>&1 | awk 'NR==1{print $2}'
The explanations are as follow :
--quiet
Turn off Wget's output.
Source - wget man pages
--spider
[ ... ] it will not download the pages, just check that they are there. [ ... ]
Source - wget man pages
--server-response
Print the headers sent by HTTP servers and responses sent by FTP servers.
Source - wget man pages
What they don't say about --server-response is that those headers output are printed to standard error (sterr), thus the need to redirect to stdin.
The output sent to standard input, we can pipe it to awk to extract the HTTP status code. That code is :
the second ($2) non-blank group of characters: {$2}
on the very first line of the header: NR==1
And because we want to print it... {print $2}.
wget --server-response --spider --quiet "${url}" 2>&1 | awk 'NR==1{print $2}'
Use curl to fetch the HTTP-header only (not the whole file) and parse it:
$ curl -I --stderr /dev/null http://www.google.co.uk/index.html | head -1 | cut -d' ' -f2
200
wget -S -i *file* will get you the headers from each url in a file.
Filter though grep for the status code specifically.
I found a tool "webchk” written in Python. Returns a status code for a list of urls.
https://pypi.org/project/webchk/
Output looks like this:
▶ webchk -i ./dxieu.txt | grep '200'
http://salesforce-case-status.dxi.eu/login ... 200 OK (0.108)
https://support.dxi.eu/hc/en-gb ... 200 OK (0.389)
https://support.dxi.eu/hc/en-gb ... 200 OK (0.401)
Hope that helps!
Keeping in mind that curl is not always available (particularly in containers), there are issues with this solution:
wget --server-response --spider --quiet "${url}" 2>&1 | awk 'NR==1{print $2}'
which will return exit status of 0 even if the URL doesn't exist.
Alternatively, here is a reasonable container health-check for using wget:
wget -S --spider -q -t 1 "${url}" 2>&1 | grep "200 OK" > /dev/null
While it may not give you exact status out, it will at least give you a valid exit code based health responses (even with redirects on the endpoint).
Due to https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfalls#Non-atomic_writes_with_xargs_-P (output from parallel jobs in xargs risks being mixed), I would use GNU Parallel instead of xargs to parallelize:
cat url.lst |
parallel -P0 -q curl -o /dev/null --silent --head --write-out '%{url_effective}: %{http_code}\n' > outfile
In this particular case it may be safe to use xargs because the output is so short, so the problem with using xargs is rather that if someone later changes the code to do something bigger, it will no longer be safe. Or if someone reads this question and thinks he can replace curl with something else, then that may also not be safe.

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