Curl like tool with AWS Signature Version 4 request signing.
Overview
Requests to AWS API must be signed (see Signing AWS API Requests) automates the process of signing and allows to make requests to AWS as simple as standard curl command.
Installation
$ pip install awscurl
Installation from source (bleeding edge)
$ pip install git+https://github.com/okigan/awscurl
Installation via Docker
Assumes Docker is installed and the working directory is project root of the cloned repo. Result will be an image named $USER/awscurl
.
$ docker build --rm -t $USER/awscurl .
On OS X run via a shell script in your $PATH or directly with something like the following:
#!/bin/bash
export AWS_DIR="${AWS_DIR:-$HOME/.aws}"
mkdir -p $AWS_DIR
docker run --rm -it -v "$AWS_DIR:/root/.aws" "$USER/awscurl:latest" "$@"
Examples
-
Call S3: List bucket content
$ awscurl --service s3 https://awscurl-sample-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com
-
Call EC2:
$ awscurl --service ec2 'https://ec2.amazonaws.com?Action=DescribeRegions&Version=2013-10-15'
-
Call API Gateway:
$ awscurl --service execute-api -X POST -d @request.json \ https://<prefix>.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/<resource>
Options
usage: awscurl [-h] [-v] [-X REQUEST] [-d DATA] [-H HEADER]
[--region REGION] [--service SERVICE]
[--profile AWS_PROFILE]
[--access_key ACCESS_KEY] [--secret_key SECRET_KEY]
[--security_token SECURITY_TOKEN]
uri
Curl AWS request signing If an arg is specified in more than one place, then
command-line values override environment variables which override defaults.
positional arguments:
uri
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-v, --verbose verbose flag (default: False)
-X REQUEST, --request REQUEST
Specify request command to use (default: GET)
-d DATA, --data DATA HTTP POST data (default: )
-H HEADER, --header HEADER
HTTP POST data (default: None)
--region REGION AWS region (default: us-east-1)
--profile PROFILE [env var: AWS_PROFILE] (default: default)
--service SERVICE AWS service (default: execute-api)
--access_key ACCESS_KEY
[env var: AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID] (default: None)
--secret_key SECRET_KEY
[env var: AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY] (default: None)
--security_token SECURITY_TOKEN
[env var: AWS_SECURITY_TOKEN] (default: None)
If you do not specify the --access_key
or --secret_key
(or environment variables), awscurl
will attempt to use
the credentials you set in ~/.aws/credentials
. If you
do not specify a --profile
or AWS_PROFILE
, awscurl
uses default
.