remote-curl-client 1.4.0

Remote curl-based API requester over SSH

remote-curl-client

Send HTTP requests from a remote machine (over SSH) using curl, and receive structured responses locally in Python.

This is useful when:

• The remote network has different routing, VPN access, or firewalls.
• You need to debug connectivity from the remote host's perspective.
• You want a lightweight alternative to installing a full API stack remotely.

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✨ Features

• All HTTP methods (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, etc.).
• Pass any additional curl flags.
• Headers, query params, and request bodies (string or JSON dict).
• Follow redirects, toggle SSL verification, set timeouts.
• Retry with exponential backoff + jitter.
• Structured RemoteResponse object (status, headers, body, raw headers).
• Password or SSH-key auth (Paramiko).

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🚀 Install

From PyPI (after release):

pip install remote-curl-client

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🔧 Quick Start

from remote_curl_client import RemoteCurlClient

client = RemoteCurlClient(
    hostname="10.37.65.78",
    username="user",
    key_filename="~/.ssh/id_rsa",  # or password="..."
)

resp = client.request(
    method="GET",
    url="https://httpbin.org/get",
    params={"q": "remote"},
    headers={"User-Agent": "RemoteCurlClient/1.0"},
    retries=3,
    backoff_factor=0.5,
)

print(resp.status_code)
print(resp.headers)
print(resp.body[:200])

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📨 POST JSON

data = {"hello": "remote world"}

resp = client.request(
    method="POST",
    url="https://httpbin.org/post",
    data=data,  # dict -> JSON serialized
    headers={"Authorization": "Bearer token123"},
    timeout=10,
)

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🔁 Retries & Backoff

resp = client.request(
    method="GET",
    url="https://httpbin.org/status/500",
    retries=4,          # total attempts = 1 + 4 = 5
    backoff_factor=1.0, # 1s, 2s, 4s, 8s...
    max_backoff=5.0,    # cap
)

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⚙️ Extra curl flags

Anything curl supports can be passed through:

resp = client.request(
    method="GET",
    url="https://example.com",
    curl_args=["--compressed", "--http2"],
)

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🔐 SSH with Password

client = RemoteCurlClient(
    hostname="10.37.65.78",
    username="user",
    password="your_password"
)

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🧪 Testing Locally Against localhost

If you have SSH to localhost and curl installed, you can quickly validate:

client = RemoteCurlClient("localhost", "youruser")
resp = client.request("GET", "https://httpbin.org/get")
print(resp.status_code)

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📄 License

MIT License. See LICENSE.