req is a very simple command line wrapper around Mikeal Roger's excellent request library.
Usage:
req [method] uri
Method is optional and will default to GET if not specified. URI is required (obviously).
Additional supported flags are..
-h/--headers
add the given header to the object passed to request, ie: -h content-type=text/plain
-o/--options
add the given option to the object passed to request, ie: -o encoding=binary
-q/--query
add the given query to the querystring object passed to request, ie: -q search=turtles
-f/--file
use the given file as the body in the request
-d/--data
use the data as the body in the request (note that both of these attempt to guess a valid content-type)
-t/--timeout
pass an integer to request as a timeout in milliseconds
-v
verbose. will console.log the arguments object before it sends the request.
-w
path to write output to