Generate article data for MEAN.io apps using curl

generate_meanio_data.sh

#!/bin/sh

# Generate article data for MEAN.io app
# Requires curl
# You need authenticated session to run script.
# Log into MEAN.io app with a user and grab cookie connect.sid value for sid variable!
# Format of binary data: --data-binary '{"title":"foo", "content":"bar..."}'

# User-defined variables
messages=200
sid="s%3AOUewK2gwcgpmbi2DNjG4PBNxjGVuwyQY.eI5B55LCPs%2B%2B6kpaocbOi5NBVAaZS%2FW%2BkQ9%2Fo8QSsMk"
url="http://localhost:3000/articles"

count=1
while [ $count -le $messages ]
do
    timestamp=$(date +%s)
    bin_data="{\"title\":\"Test Article $count ($timestamp)\", \"content\":\"Here are the contents of 'Test Article $count ($timestamp)'...\"}"

    curl "$url" \
        -H "Content-Type: application/json;charset=UTF-8" \
        -H "Cookie:connect.sid=$sid" \
        --data-binary "$bin_data" \
        --compressed
    count=`expr $count + 1`
done