A command line WebSocket interface with no Node dependency and SSL built in.
Written in Go.
- Download the binary that works for your machine from the releases page
- Don't see your OS there? Make an issue requesting support for that OS
- Make sure the binary is executable (
chmod +x /path/to/webgocatif it isn't) - Put the binary somewhere in your
$PATH
OR
- Clone the repo and build it from source (
go build -o webgocat main.go)
webgocat is a WebSocket client for the command line. It lets you connect to a WebSocket to send and receive text messages.
I love the tool wscat and have used it for a long time, but I work on machines that don't have Node/NPM installed.
Because wscat is installed via NPM and run on Node, it isn't an option for those projects.
I tried using websocat, but the binaries don't come with SSL built in so I couldn't connect to wss endpoints. One could probably add SSL when compiling from the source, but that seemed onerous.
Go lets you compile a binary for almost any target, so I thought that use Go would be a great tool to make a WebSocket client without requiring any other dependencies on the host.
Please create an issue!
MIT