Installing api-test

Api-test is a bash program that automates JSON API testing using curl command to make API requests and jq for JSON processing.

Dependency

If you have already installed the following dependency you can proceed to the next section.

• Install jq

# CentOS / Amazon linux 2 / Cloud 09
sudo yum install -y jq
# Ubuntu
sudo apt install  jq
# MaxOS
brew install jq

• Install curl

# CentOS / Amazon linux 2 / Cloud 09
sudo yum install -y curl
# Ubuntu
sudo apt install curl
# MaxOS
brew install curl

Install api-test

curl -LJO https://raw.githubusercontent.com/subeshb1/api-test/master/api-test.sh
chmod +x api-test.sh
sudo mv api-test.sh /usr/local/bin/api-test

This will pull the bash script, make it executable and move it to /usr/local/bin to make it run from anywhere.

Run the following command to see if the program is installed.

$ api-test --version

api-test version 0.3.0

If you see the above message api-test has been successfully installed.