Heroku API - Grab ID

README.md

Setup

• brew install jq (jq is like sed for json)
• put this in your .bashrc or .zshrc
• pbcopy is an OSX thing (I'm sure there's a linux/windows way to do this too?)
• You will need the heroku cli api plugin:
  • heroku plugins:install api from here

Usage

See the notes in the code

grabid.sh

# grabid
# grab id from the heroku api endpoint
# and then copy it into clipboard
#
# grabid /addon-services/deployhooks
# grabid /apps/powerful-hamlet-24622
function grabid() {
  thingId=$(heroku api get $1 | jq '.id' -r)
  echo "endpoint: $1"
  echo "id: $thingId"
  printf $thingId | pbcopy # printf so no new line
  echo 'id copied to clipboard'
}

OtherWays.md

Other ways to do the same thing (without the copy into clipboard):

• heroku sudo api get /apps/some-app-name | jq '.id' (sudo is herokai only)
• heroku apps:info --json -a some-app-name | jq .app.id

Neato!