http at your command line with curl

made slightly less painful by some bash aliases.

$ cat >> ~/.bashrc
# curl niceties for REST
alias get='curl -X GET'
alias delete='curl -X DELETE'
alias post='curl -X POST'
alias put='curl -X PUT'
^D

you might use it for the (forthcoming) swivel api.

to append a new row to your data set

$ put -d "file[data]=2008-02-01,2" http://test.swivel.com/data_sets/1000027.xml?api_key=x

to get your data as a csv

$ get http://test.swivel.com/data_sets/1000027.csv?api_key=x

bash is neat.