Show HN: Wsta – a CLI for working with WebSockets written in Rust

Post by esphen » Mon, May 23, 2016, 6:17 AM UTC

Post by tty7 » Mon, May 23, 2016, 12:41 PM UTC

nfriedly wrote: post #2

Can I use this to send an initial JSON message and then pipe audio data from my mic? (I wouldn't be surprised if this is possible with standard UNIX magic... But I just don't know how.)

Post by nfriedly » Mon, May 23, 2016, 2:24 PM UTC

nindwen wrote: post #4

tty7 wrote: post #3

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Something like: arecord -fdat | wsta ws:// ?

Supposing this is correct, you can add the json with cat: arecord -fdat | cat init.json - | wsta ws://

Post by esphen » Mon, May 23, 2016, 3:59 PM UTC

nfriedly wrote: post #5

nindwen wrote: post #4

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Supposing this is correct, you can add the json with cat: arecord -fdat | cat init.json - | wsta ws://

Yep, that sounds like the magic I was looking for. I'll try it out later today.

Post by devy » Mon, May 23, 2016, 4:08 PM UTC

esphen wrote: post #8

devy wrote: post #6

I have been using `wscat`[1] when I was developing a WebSocket app last year. It was a nifty little tool although it would require the entire nodejs / npm stack to be able to run it. `wsta` is probably more portable as all we need is just a native binary to run. [1]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/wscat

Yep, wscat is pretty a pretty nice tool! I used it as well, but it always bothered me that I couldn't tell it what to send to the server when running it. It's super handy to be able to file bugs with a one-liner to reproduce the bug. That lead me to fork it and send a PR with that feature. It never got merged, so I simply created a new project, which ultimately lead to this :)