csv2http

CLI tool and library for making a series of JSON or form-encoded HTTP requests based on a CSV file input.

Quick start

Install

pip install csv2http

Or with pipx (recommended)

pipx install csv2http

Check CLI usage

❯ csv2http --help
usage: csv2http [-h] [-c CONCURRENCY] [--method {POST,PATCH,PUT}] [-a AUTH] [-H [HEADER ...]] [-d] [-n] [-t TIMEOUT] file url

HTTP request for every row of a CSV file - v0.0.3a1

positional arguments:
  file                  payload csv file
  url                   URL destination - called with `http` if scheme is absent

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -c CONCURRENCY, --concurrency CONCURRENCY
                        Maximum number of concurrent requests (default: 25)
  --method {POST,PATCH,PUT}
                        HTTP method/verb (default: POST)
  -a AUTH, --auth AUTH  Basic Authentication enter <USERNAME>:<PASSWORD>. If password is blank you will be prompted for input
  -H [HEADER ...], --header [HEADER ...]
                        Header `key:value` pairs
  -d, --form-data       Send payload as form encoded data instead of JSON (default: false)
  -n, --no-save         Do not save results to log file (default: false)
  -t TIMEOUT, --timeout TIMEOUT
                        Connection timeout of the request in seconds (default: 5)

Mockbin Example

Make POST calls to http://mockbin.org from a local csv file.

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First setup a new bin, using httpie, curl or the web ui and get a bin id.

❯ http POST mockbin.io/bin/create status:=201 statusText=Created httpVersion=HTTP/1.1 headers:='[]' cookies:='[]' 'content[mimeType]'=application/json --body
"9e95289e-d048-4515-9a61-07f2c74810f5"

Create your my_file.csv and pass it to csv2http. Use the returned bin id from before.

❯ csv2http my_file.csv mockbin.io/bin/9e95289e-d048-4515-9a61-07f2c74810f5 --concurrency 3
 POST http://mockbin.io/bin/9e95289e-d048-4515-9a61-07f2c74810f5
  status codes - {200: 3}
  status codes - {200: 3}
  status codes - {200: 3}
  status codes - {200: 1}

Check the bin log from. https://mockbin.org/bin/9e95289e-d048-4515-9a61-07f2c74810f5/log

Set Auth and Headers

Header key, value pairs can be set with the -H or -header flag.

Key value pairs should be separated with either a : or =.

csv2http my_file.csv httpbin.org/post -H user-agent:csv2http-cli x-custom-header=foobar

To provide basic auth pass a username and password with -a or --auth.

If the password is omitted you will be prompted to provide it.

--auth my_username:my_password

--auth my_username

Roadmap

• As Library - Alpha
  • parse csv as dictionary/json - Alpha
  • accept mutator function - Alpha
  • HTTP POST request with json from csv - Alpha
  • limit concurrency - Alpha
  • non-blocking file IO - ???
  • hooks for response results - Beta
  • mkdoc docs - Beta
• As CLI - Beta
  • argparse - Alpha
  • write results to logfile - Beta
  • progress bar - ???
  • use dedicated CLI library with pretty colors (typer, rich etc.) - Beta
  • Nested fields - V1
• Complete Docs - V1
  • create_mockbin.csv and example.csv to use in quickstart - Beta
  • examples for using as library
• GH Actions CI (lint, test, etc.)
• GH Actions CD (publish to pypi)