Quecho - Query string echo service

This tiny web service will take the query string of any HTTP request and return it as the response body.

Where?

Why?

I built this to simplify working with an API from twilio, which requires a script for an outgoing call to be provided in an XML file on the web.

I want to send short alerts, on the fly, from ad-hoc scripts. Using Quecho, I can avoid having to publish to the web static documents like this:

<Response>
  <Say>Wake up!</Say>
<Response>

Instead, I just put it all in a URL and send it off, like this:

#!/bin/bash

message='Wake up!'

encode_x2_py="import sys,urllib;print urllib.quote(urllib.quote(sys.stdin.read().strip()))"
xml_encoded_x2=$(echo "<Response><Say>$message</Say></Response>" | python -c "$encode_x2_py")

account_sid='AC00000000000000000000000000000000'
auth_token='00000000000000000000000000000000'

from_number='61400000000'
to_number='61400000000'

curl -XPOST https://api.twilio.com/2010-04-01/Accounts/$account_sid/Calls.json \
    -u "$account_sid:$auth_token" \
    -d "From=%2B$from_number" \
    -d "To=%2B$to_number" \
    -d "Url=http://quecho.herokuapp.com/?$xml_encoded_x2"

Run it locally

git clone https://github.com/chrisberkhout/quecho.git
cd quecho
npm start

Resources

Who

Chris Berkhout chrisberkhout@gmail.com (http://chrisberkhout.com)