awesome-console-services

A curated list of awesome console services (reachable via HTTP, HTTPS and other network protocols).
Structured data of the list (kept in sync) is in structured.yaml.

• IP Address


• Geolocation


• Text Sharing


• URL Shortener


• File Transfer


• Browser


• Tools


• Monitoring


• Weather


• News


• Information boards


• Map


• Money


• Documentation


• Dictionaries and translators


• Generators


• Entertainment


• Scripts


• Clients

IP address
Inline

• curl l2.io/ip


• curl https://echoip.de


• curl ifconfig.me


• curl ipecho.net/plain


• curl -L ident.me #API


• curl -L canihazip.com/s


• curl -L tnx.nl/ip


• curl wgetip.com


• curl whatismyip.akamai.com


• curl ip.tyk.nu


• curl bot.whatismyipaddress.com


• curl curlmyip.net


• curl api.ipify.org


• curl ipv4bot.whatismyipaddress.com


• curl ipcalf.com

New line

• curl ipaddy.net


• curl eth0.me


• curl ipaddr.site


• curl ifconfig.co


• curl ifconfig.pro


• curl curlmyip.net


• curl ipinfo.io/ip


• curl icanhazip.com


• curl checkip.amazonaws.com


• curl smart-ip.net/myip


• curl ip-api.com/line?fields=query


• curl ifconfig.io/ip


• curl -s ip.liquidweb.com


• curl ifconfig.es


• curl ipaddress.sh


• curl 2ip.ru

DNS

• dig @1.1.1.1 whoami.cloudflare ch txt +short (IPv4)


• dig @2606:4700:4700::1111 whoami.cloudflare ch txt -6 +short (IPv6)


• dig @ns1.google.com o-o.myaddr.l.google.com TXT -6 +short (IPv6)


• dig @ns1.google.com o-o.myaddr.l.google.com TXT -4 +short (IPv4)


• dig resolver.dnscrypt.info TXT +short


• curl https://dnsjson.com/resolver.dnscrypt.info/TXT.json


• curl -L https://edns.ip-api.com/json


• curl 'api.hackertarget.com/zonetransfer/?q=zonetransfer.me' - DNS Zone Transfer

JSON only

• curl httpbin.org/ip


• curl wtfismyip.com/json


• curl -L iphorse.com/json


• curl geoplugin.net/json.gp


• curl https://ipapi.co/json


• curl -L jsonip.com


• curl gd.geobytes.com/GetCityDetails


• curl ip.jsontest.com

Geolocation

• curl ipinfo.io/8.8.8.8 or curl ipinfo.io/8.8.8.8/loc


• curl ip-api.com or curl ip-api.com/8.8.8.8


• curl ifconfig.co/country or curl ifconfig.co/city or curl ifconfig.co/country-iso or http ifconfig.co/json


• curl ifconfig.es/geo or curl ifconfig.es/json or curl ifconfig.es/country or curl ifconfig.es/code or curl ifconfig.es/city or curl ifconfig.es/latitude or curl ifconfig.es/longitude

Text Sharing

• echo "Hello world!" | curl -F 'f:1=<-' ix.io


• echo "Hello world!" | curl -F [email protected] 0x0.st


• echo "Hello world!" | curl -F 'clbin=<-' https://clbin.com


• echo "Hello world!" | nc termbin.com 9999


• echo "Hello world!" | curl -F 'sprunge=<-' sprunge.us


• echo "Hello world!" | curl -H "content-type: text/plain" -d @- https://textdb.dev/api/data/unique-id-for-my-text


• curl https://patchbay.pub/your-custom-path -d "Hello world!" and curl -s https://patchbay.pub/your-custom-path

URL shortener

• curl -s tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url=<link>


• :no_entry_sign: curl -F shorten=<link> https://ttm.sh


• curl https://is.gd/create.php?format=simple&url=<link>


• curl -F shorten=<link> https://0x0.st

File Transfer

• curl --upload-file <file> transfer.sh/<filename>


• curl --upload-file <file> filepush.co/upload/<filename>


• curl -F [email protected]<file> https://ttm.sh


• curl https://patchbay.pub/your-custom-filepath.exe --data-binary @<file> and curl -LO https://patchbay.pub/your-custom-filepath.exe


• nc oshi.at 7777 < <file> or curl https://oshi.at -F [email protected]<file>


• curl -F [email protected]<file> https://0x0.st


• curl -F [email protected]<file> https://api.anonfile.com/upload

Browser

• :no_entry_sign: ssh brow.sh

Tools

• curl qrenco.de/STRING or echo STRING | curl -F-=\<- qrenco.de — create QR-code for a string (chubin/qrenco.de)


• curl "http://c.docverter.com/convert" -F from=html -F to=pdf -F "input_files[][email protected]" -o "output-file-name.pdf" - convert a document (source)


• curl -s "https://decapi.me/youtube/latest_video?user=NPR" - title/URL of latest upload from indicated YouTube channel


• curl -s "https://decapi.me/twitter/latest?name=NPR" - last tweet from indicated account


• curl -s "https://decapi.me/twitch/uptime?channel=IGN" - check if indicated twitch channel is online


• curl -s "https://httpbin.org/delay/4" - HTTP request and response Service (e.g. send response after 4 seconds)


• curl -s "https://urlecho.appspot.com/echo?body=Hello+World" - HTTP response defined in the request parameters


• curl -s "https://urlreq.appspot.com/req?method=GET&url=https://l2.io/ip" - HTTP proxy makes new requests based on input parameters


• curl -s "https://api.hackertarget.com/nmap/?q=93.184.216.34" - TCP port scan using NMAP


• curl -s "https://api.hackertarget.com/pagelinks/?q=msn.com" - Extract all links from a page


• curl -s "https://api.hackertarget.com/whois/?q=google.com" - Whois lookup


• curl -s "https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/users" - Useful tool to retrieve fake api data

Cryptography

• curl https://ja3er.com/search/535886c8d0a1b14f02298967bb990171 - SSL fingerprint search

Monitoring

• curl ping.gg

Weather

• curl wttr.in or curl wttr.in/Berlin — the right way to check the weather


• finger [email protected]


• nc rainmaker.wunderground.com 3000 (also works with telnet)


• curl https://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/data/observations/metar/stations/KAAO.TXT - METAR from the specified ICAO

News

• curl getnews.tech/world+cup — fetch the latest news


• curl rate.sx - for exploring (crypto)currencies exchange rates


• gopher://gopher.leveck.us:70 - news aggregator


• gopher://gopherddit.com:70 - reddit


• ssh redditbox.us — reddit in terminal (ssh + text browser)


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  gopher://hngopher.com:70 - hacker news

  
  


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  :no_entry_sign: curl wrk.ist — fetch the latest remote jobs / gigs on the IT market

  
  

Information boards

• :no_entry_sign: curl http://frcl.de/gulasch — Gulaschprogrammiernacht 2019 Fahrplan


• gopher://gopherpedia.com:70 - wikipedia

COVID-19

• curl https://corona-stats.online


• curl -L covid19.trackercli.com


• curl snf-878293.vm.okeanos.grnet.gr - Covid-19 statistics for your country

Map

• telnet mapscii.me — show a zoomable world map

Money

• curl rate.sx — get cryptocurrencies exchange rates


• :no_entry_sign: curl moneroj.org — get Monero exchange rate


• :no_entry_sign: curl cmc.rjldev.com — get coinmarketcap top 100 cryptocurrencies


• nc ticker.bitcointicker.co 10080 — get BTC/USD exchange rate (also works with telnet)


• curl stonks.icu/amd/msft get stock visualizer and tracker


• curl terminal-stocks.shashi.dev/:ticker - get stocks prices and information for provided yahoo ticker


• ssh cointop.sh - cryptocurrency tracking TUI (source)

Documentation

• curl cheat.sh — UNIX/Linux commands cheat sheets using curl (chubin/cheat.sh)


• curl 'api.hackertarget.com/subnetcalc/?q=192.168.1.0/24' Subnet calculator


• gopher://telcodata.us:70 - NPA/NXX Lookup


• gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/world - all known gopher servers

Dictionaries and translators

• curl 'dict.org/d:command line'

Generators

• git commit -m "$(curl -sk whatthecommit.com/index.txt)" — generate random commit message


• curl "https://www.random.org/integers/?num=1&min=1&max=100&col=1&base=10&format=plain&rnd=new" - generate random number


• curl -H 'Accept: text/plain' https://foaas.com/cool/:from — fuck off as a service


• curl pseudorandom.name — generate a pseudo random (American?) name (treyhunner/pseudorandom.name)


• :no_entry_sign: curl -s https://uinames.com/api/?region=france\&amount=25 | jq '.[] | .name +" " + .surname' — generate 25 random french names


• curl https://icanhazdadjoke.com — random jokes


• curl givemeguid.com - guid


• nc towel.blinkenlights.nl 666 - IT excuses (also works with telnet)


• curl -s 'https://api-inference.huggingface.co/models/distilgpt2' --data-raw '"what is the meaning of life?"' | jq '.[].generated_text' - generate text using the GPT2 AI model from a seed string

Entertainment and Games

• curl https://asciitv.fr — watch Star Wars in terminal via curl (source)


• nc towel.blinkenlights.nl 23 — watch Star Wars in terminal via netcat (also works with telnet)


• ssh chat.shazow.net — chat over SSH (shazow/ssh-chat)


• ssh [email protected] — SSH chat client (source)


• curl parrot.live — display an animated party parrot (hugomd/parrot.live)


• curl byemck.atulr.com — display animated goodbye message for colleagues (master-atul/byemck)


• nc rya.nc 1987 — get Rick Rolled (also works with telnet)


• curl node-web-console.glitch.me — watch an emoji race (source)


• curl ascii.live/forrest - run Forrest, run!


• curl ascii.live/nyan - watch Nyan Cat


• curl https://poptart.spinda.net — fullscreen colorized Nyan Cat


• gopher://fld.gp:70 - gopher resources / news / weather / entertainment


• gopher://mozz.us:70 - games, drink recipes, and other


• gopher://port70.net/1board/b - 4chan


• ssh [email protected] - collaborative ASCII art project (source)


• telnet 1984.ws 23 — BBS (BBS list here)


• ssh [email protected] - demo the "Monotty" text-based desktop environment (source)


• curl e.xec.sh — seach and display gifs in your terminal

Telnet/SSH-based games:

• ssh sshtron.zachlatta.com ~> snake game; play with AWSD keys


• ssh netris.rocketnine.space — multiplayer tetris


• ssh [email protected] — 2048, snake, and freecell (source)


• ssh [email protected] - 11 arcade games


• ssh [email protected] -p 2222 — guess free minesweeper; Pass: play


• ssh [email protected] — play various games including checkers


• ssh [email protected] - Competitive puzzle; password: intricacy


• ssh [email protected] - Multiplayer Chess; password: simulchess


• ssh pacman:[email protected] - Pacman; password: pacman


• ssh [email protected] - Roguelike; password: lag


• ssh [email protected] - Khet; password: ckhet


• ssh [email protected] - nethack and others


• ssh [email protected] - rogue; password: yendor


• ssh pong.brk.st - singleplayer pong


• ssh tty.sdf.org - requires you to make an account first


• nc aardmud.org 23 — MUD (MUD list here, also works with telnet)


• nc freechess.org 23 — Chess Game (also works with telnet)


• nc igs.joyjoy.net 6969 - play/watch the game of Go (also works with telnet))


• nc fibs.com 4321 - multiplayer backgammon (also works with telnet)


• telnet dungeon.name 20028 - infinite cave adventure


• telnet milek7.gq — games: Pong, Break out, Tetris


• telnet mtrek.com 1701 — Star Trek


• telnet decwars.com 1701 — Multiplayer Star Trek


• telnet telehack.com

Scripts

Useful scripts, that can be run with just one line of code, but where, still local execution is necessary.

• curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sivel/speedtest-cli/master/speedtest.py | python -

Clients

At least one of these clients, that you need to access these services, is installed on almost every UNIX/Linux system.

• aria2


• bitsadmin


• curl


• httpie


• httrack


• powershell


• rclone


• wget


• wget2