curl / shell scripts for testing apis

get.sh

#!/bin/bash
CURL='/usr/bin/curl'
MAINURL="https://api.myserver.com"
ACTION="users"
USERNAME="api_tester@myserver.com"
PASSWORD="secret"

PARAMS_TO_TEST="&company_id=1"
CURLARGS="-k"

PATH_TO_STORE="./output.xml"

EXECUTE=$MAINURL/$ACTION'?username='$USERNAME'&password='$PASSWORD$PARAMS_TO_TEST

echo "executing curl $EXECUTE"
$CURL $CURLARGS $EXECUTE > $PATH_TO_STORE
echo "output saved to file output.xml"

post.sh

#!/bin/bash
CURL='/usr/bin/curl'
MAINURL="https://api.myserver.com/"
ACTION="users/create"

PARAMS_TO_TEST=""
CURLARGS="-k -d @post.xml -H 'Content-type: application/xml'"

PATH_TO_STORE="./output.xml"

EXECUTE=$MAINURL/$ACTION'?username='$USERNAME'&password='$PASSWORD$PARAMS_TO_TEST

echo "executing curl $EXECUTE"
$CURL $CURLARGS $EXECUTE > $PATH_TO_STORE
echo "output saved to file output.xml"