[PDB-tech] CLI client for access to PDB data?

[Matt Griswold]

* Job Snijders <job at instituut.net> [160318 13:21 +0100]:
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 12:16:08PM +0000, Matthew Walster wrote:
> > On 18 March 2016 at 09:50, Job Snijders <job at instituut.net> wrote:  
> > > My question: has anyone started work on a CLI based client which
> > > interacts with the hosted API on peeringdb.com/api, has no or
> > >   very few dependencies, and authenticates itself? The only
> > >   relevant lookup key is the AS number.  
> > 
> > I wrote an internal tool, yes. It's just bash and jq -- but
> >   obviously the "jq" part is a non-standard dependency.
> > 
> > If no-one else steps forward, I'm happy to help develop something
> >   without external dependencies.  
> 
> My aim is a tool which is very easy to install for end-users and for
> instance only depends on standard python 2.7 libs. Just like
> finger/whois were maintenance-free easy CLI tools to pull data out of
> PDB
The python cli is mostly like that, if you don't install the sync.

That said, I expected to have the whois server back up by now, still
hope to by end of the weekend.