https://github.com/bn3t/tail-url

Tail text from an URL
https://github.com/bn3t/tail-url

command-line command-line-tool http http-get rust tail url

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Tail text from an URL

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/bn3t/tail-url
• Owner: bn3t
• License: apache-2.0
• Archived: true
• Created: 2018-03-04T12:54:43.000Z (almost 8 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2018-03-12T22:23:02.000Z (almost 8 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-03-05T03:44:40.713Z (11 months ago)
• Topics: command-line, command-line-tool, http, http-get, rust, tail, url
• Language: Rust
• Size: 79.1 KB
• Stars: 4
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# tail-url - Tail text from an URL [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/bn3t/tail-url.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/bn3t/tail-url)

This is a utility to tail text from an HTTP endpoint. It works similarly to doing tail -f with a local file. Typically, the source should be a growing text file (like a log file) served by a server supporting the Range header in http.

## Usage

```

$ tail-url -h

Usage:

    tail-url [OPTIONS] URL

Tail text coming from an URL

positional arguments:

  url                   URL to tail

optional arguments:

  -h,--help             show this help message and exit

  -t                    Starting tail offset in bytes

```

### Example

The following example will tail from the URL http://localhost:8080/logfile.

```

tail-url http://localhost:8080/logfile

```

## Requirements

For the utility to work, the HTTP server needs to support the Range header with a range of bytes in the GET request. The tool checks it by calling the HEAD method on the resource and checking for the AcceptRanges header.