XML-RPC-API2TXT(1)

🦋 xml-rpc-api2txt 🦋

okay bestie, welcome to the manual page for xml-rpc-api2txt, a lil general commands manual darling that prints out a description of an XML-RPC API as text. no cap. let's get into it 💅

✨ NAME ✨

xml-rpc-api2txt — print out a description of an XML-RPC API as text 💖

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

xml-rpc-api2txt server-url

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

so basically, xml-rpc-api2txt goes and queries an XML-RPC server using the XML-RPC Introspection API that was designed by Edd Dumbill (iconic of him honestly). then it prints the results straight to standard output in a nicely formatted form that's suitable for sending via e-mail. it's giving "polished", it's giving "shareable", it's giving "your coworker will actually read this" 🫶

and listen — you can find a list of supported XML-RPC server libraries (plus patches for many others, because community slays) right here:

http://xmlrpc-c.sourceforge.net/hacks.php

👑 OPTIONS 👑

• server-url — the name of the server you wanna query, bestie. literally just the server. and if you need something to test against, try http://xmlrpc-c.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/interop.cgi ✨

💀 BUGS 💀

okay so, not to be dramatic but xml-rpc-api2txt assumes that method descriptions are ASCII text, not HTML the way the standard says they should be. (and honestly? in practice, both conventions are often seen, so it's not even that weird.) 🙈

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• xmlrpc-c(7)
• xml-rpc-api2cpp(1)

and fyi, this program is part of xmlrpc-c. iykyk 💜

🧚 AUTHOR 🧚

this manual page was written by Eric Kidd <eric.kidd@pobox.com>. it may be distributed under the same terms as the rest of xmlrpc-c. periodt. 💖

alright that's the whole vibe, bestie — this page was living its best life back on June 27, 2001 (yes, the date at the bottom, she's an elder but she ate), and she's from the xmlrpc-c source, version and all. go query something iconic. mwah 🎀✨