awesome-console-services

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

IP address

• curl https://canihazip.com/s
• curl ipinfo.io/ip
• curl icanhazip.com
• curl curlmyip.net
• curl ipecho.net/plain
• curl ifconfig.pro
• curl ip-addr.es
• dig +short myip.opendns.com @resolver1.opendns.com
• curl ident.me (see http://api.ident.me/ for the full API reference)
• curl ipaddr.site
• curl ifconfig.co
• curl echoip.de (see https://www.echoip.de/)

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
• curl ifconfig.co/country or curl ifconfig.co/city or curl ifconfig.co/country-iso or http ifconfig.co/json

Text Sharing (like pastebin)

• ix.io
• sprunge.us
• 0x0.st
• clbin.com
• echo "Hello world!" | nc termbin.com 9999

URL shortener

• curl -s http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url=http://www.google.com
• curl -X POST --data "http://google.com" http://iret.ml/shorten

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)

Monitoring

• curl ping.gg

Weather

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

Map

• telnet mapscii.me - show a zoomable world map

Exchange rates and financial information

• curl rate.sx - get cryptocurrencies exchange rates
• curl moneroj.org - get Monero exchange rate

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/jokes/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 pseudorandom.name — generate a pseudo random (American?) name (treyhunner/pseudorandom.name)
• curl -s https://uinames.com/api/?region=france\&amount=25 | jq '.[] | .name +" " + .surname' — generate 25 random french names
• curl https://icanhazdadjoke.com — random jokes

Chats, games and fun

• nc towel.blinkenlights.nl 23 — watch StarWars in terminal
• ssh chat.shazow.net — chat over SSH (shazow/ssh-chat)
• curl parrot.live — display an animated party parrot (hugomd/parrot.live)
• curl byemck.atulr.com — display animated goodbye message for colleagues (master-atul/byemck)

Internet speed test

• curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sivel/speedtest-cli/master/speedtest.py | python -

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