Mojolic...and::get(3)

💅 Mojolic...and::get — like, the get command, bestie

okay so real talk: this page lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation corner of the manual universe, and it's literally the docs for Mojolicious::Command::get (yes, the header truncates the name to Mojolic...and::get, that's just man pages being dramatic ✨). ngl it's a whole mood and also genuinely useful, so let's go 🫶

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

the whole vibe in one line, periodt:

Usage: APPLICATION get [OPTIONS] URL [SELECTOR|JSON-POINTER] [COMMANDS]

and here's the receipts — every single example, exactly as written, no cap:

./myapp.pl get /
./myapp.pl get -H 'Accept: text/html' /hello.html 'head > title' text
./myapp.pl get //sri:secr3t@/secrets.json /1/content
mojo get mojolicious.org
mojo get -v -r -o 25 -i 50 google.com
mojo get -v -H 'Host: mojolicious.org' -H 'Accept: */*' mojolicious.org
mojo get -u 'sri:s3cret' https://mojolicious.org
mojo get mojolicious.org > example.html
mojo get -M PUT mojolicious.org < example.html
mojo get -f 'q=Mojolicious' -f 'size=5' https://metacpan.org/search
mojo get -M POST -f 'upload=@example.html' mojolicious.org
mojo get mojolicious.org 'head > title' text
mojo get mojolicious.org .footer all
mojo get mojolicious.org a attr href
mojo get mojolicious.org '*' attr id
mojo get mojolicious.org 'h1, h2, h3' 3 text
mojo get https://fastapi.metacpan.org/v1/author/SRI /name
mojo get -H 'Host: example.com' http+unix://%2Ftmp%2Fmyapp.sock/index.html

🎀 the options (the whole menu, don't skip)

• -C, --charset <charset> — charset of your HTML/XML content 💖 defaults to auto-detection (she figures it out herself)
• -c, --content <content> — the content you're sending along with the request
• -f, --form <name=value> — one or more form values and file uploads, yes plural, stack 'em
• -H, --header <name:value> — one or more extra HTTP headers, add as many as your heart desires
• -h, --help — shows this very summary of available options 🫶
• --home <path> — path to the home directory of your application, defaults to the value of MOJO_HOME or auto-detection
• -i, --inactivity-timeout <seconds> — inactivity timeout, defaults to the value of MOJO_INACTIVITY_TIMEOUT or 40
• -k, --insecure — do not require a valid TLS certificate to access HTTPS sites (iconic but careful energy 🙈)
• -M, --method <method> — HTTP method to use, defaults to "GET"
• -m, --mode <name> — operating mode for your application, defaults to the value of MOJO_MODE/PLACK_ENV or "development"
• -o, --connect-timeout <seconds> — connect timeout, defaults to the value of MOJO_CONNECT_TIMEOUT or 10
• -r, --redirect — follow up to 10 redirects, she'll chase it down 🏃‍♀️
• -S, --response-size <size> — maximum response size in bytes, defaults to 2147483648 (2GiB), that's a LOT of bytes bestie
• -u, --user <userinfo> — alternate mechanism for specifying colon-separated username and password
• -v, --verbose — prints request and response headers to STDERR, for the nosy girlies (me, I'm nosy)

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Mojolicious::Command::get performs requests to remote hosts or local applications. that's the whole job and she does it flawlessly 💅

this is a core command, which means it's always enabled — it never gets benched. and its code is lowkey a good example for learning to build new commands, so you're welcome to fork it. go off 👑

if you wanna see the list of commands available by default, check out "COMMANDS" in Mojolicious::Commands — that's where the whole friend group is listed.

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🦋 ATTRIBUTES 🦋

Mojolicious::Command::get inherits all attributes from Mojolicious::Command and implements the following new ones. (yes, all of them, she's a nepo baby with talent 🌸)

description

my $description = $get->description;
$get            = $get->description('Foo');

short description of this command, used for the command list. like a little bio, but for a command ✨

usage

my $usage = $get->usage;
$get      = $get->usage('Foo');

usage information for this command, used for the help screen. the "how do I even use this" of it all 🎀

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🔥 METHODS 🔥

Mojolicious::Command::get inherits all methods from Mojolicious::Command and implements the following new ones.

run

$get->run(@ARGV);

run this command. that's it, that's the method, main character energy 👑

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Mojolicious
• Mojolicious::Guides
• <https://mojolicious.org>

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ok bestie that's the whole page, you're officially educated 💜 go get something cute.

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