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How I measure Response Times of Web APIs using curl

Yuya Takeyama on December 06, 2017

Why curl? There is a bunch of specific tools for benchmarking HTTP requests. ab, JMeter, wrk... Then why still use curl for the purpose?...
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Emilien Mottet •

Good article !
For zsh users, you could use repeat

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Wellington Soares •

Nice post!

by the way, why curlb on the last two commands? is it a typo?

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Yuya Takeyama •

Hi, did you see this section?

To simplify, I also created a wrapper command curlb:

-s -o /dev/null -w "%{time_starttransfer}\n" is toooo long to type or to remember.
So I always use curlb and recommend using it.

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Neo •

Interesting approach

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Bjoern •

This was an interesting post and I got curious to see how this measures up against how we record response time with our product templarbit.com/sonar and found that it works similar!

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Zeyuan Chen •

Hi! Is it possible to use your tool on Mac?
If so, how to install the ntimes?