Mermouy/shell2web

turn status output scripts into apps

shell2web

What's cool

Stream output to browsers, apps and devices as it happens, without javascript

Example

Copies, refeshed in the background every few minutes

• html
• json
• toml
• txt
• xml
• yaml

Run the script live

• html
• json
• toml
• txt
• xml
• yaml

Notes

• Whatever you want to run, name it run

• The cached output page is at http://XXXXXXXX.herokuapp.com

• Run the script live via http://XXXXXXXX.herokuapp.com/live (disable by LIVE=false)

Local dev

foreman start

Recommended web config & launch

heroku create
heroku config:set WEB_TIMEOUT=600 WEB_CONCURRENCY=4 RACK_ENV=production
git push heroku master

Environment variable configuration options

Variable                Default Value             Description
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
SHELL2WEB_CMD           ./run            what script to run
SHELL2WEB_CONTENT_TYPE  text/plain       Content-Type
SHELL2WEB_LIVE          true             allow /live ?
SHELL2WEB_TIME          true             show start, end and elapsed time
SHELL2WEB_DELAY         5 minutes        delay between background updates
SHELL2WEB_AVG_RUN_TIME  4 minutes        estimated time a background update takes

note: only supports 1 dyno