Useful Command Line Query Tool

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PublishedJuly 2, 2021

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I am a developer from Malaysia. I work with PHP most of the time, recently I fell in love with Go. When I am not working, I will be ballroom dancing :-)

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cli.fyi lets you to quickly retrieve information about emails, IP addresses, URLs and lots more from the command line

Cli.Fyi is a simple and useful utility tool. It can be used to perform WHOIS on domains, check IP addresses, and even crypto currency prices. Check out its website to find out what it can do.

Dead simple usage

curl cli.fyi/example.com
curl cli.fyi/8.8.8.8
curl cli.fyi/me

I have also wrote a wrapper for it.

https://gist.github.com/hongster/2d6db3c393bdff864ef4c7d36e166154

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Asrin Dayananda4y ago

Cool! I need to try this, thanks

Hong4y ago

Do share your experience. What kind of information are you querying?

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