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Crow is a node.js based URL checker that is automation friendly
It prints results in a table in your console. Crow will exit with a non-zero exit code if one of the tests failed.
~ npm install -g crow
~ crow remotes.json
┌──────────────────────────────┬────────┬─────────────────────────────────┬────────┐
│ URI │ Method │ Status │ Delay │
├──────────────────────────────┼────────┼─────────────────────────────────┼────────┤
│ https://arkhaios.net:443/ │ GET │ UNABLE_TO_VERIFY_LEAF_SIGNATURE │ 312ms │
├──────────────────────────────┼────────┼─────────────────────────────────┼────────┤
│ https://elipsis.io:443/login │ POST │ Error: HTTP 403 │ 698ms │
├──────────────────────────────┼────────┼─────────────────────────────────┼────────┤
│ https://google.com:443/ │ GET │ ok │ 2624ms │
├──────────────────────────────┼────────┼─────────────────────────────────┼────────┤
│ http://google.com:80/ │ GET │ ok │ 1575ms │
├──────────────────────────────┼────────┼─────────────────────────────────┼────────┤
│ http://nowhere:80/ │ GET │ getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND │ 33ms │
└──────────────────────────────┴────────┴─────────────────────────────────┴────────┘
The URLs are alphabetically ordered by domain, port and path
File remotes.json
[
{
"protocol": "https",
"domain": "google.com",
"port": 443,
"path": "/"
}, {
"protocol": "http",
"domain": "google.com",
"port": 80,
"path": "/"
}, {
"protocol": "https",
"domain": "arkhaios.net",
"port": 443,
"path": "/"
}, {
"protocol": "http",
"domain": "nowhere",
"port": 80,
"path": "/"
}, {
"protocol": "https",
"domain": "elipsis.io",
"port": 443,
"path": "/login",
"method": "POST",
"headers": {
"Content-Type": "application/json"
},
"body": {
"email": "hello@elipsis.io",
"password": "123456"
}
}
]
FAQs
a remote URL tester for the terminal
The npm package crow receives a total of 3 weekly downloads. As such, crow popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that crow demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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