rest-sh/restish

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rest-sh/restish

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1,400 stars · MIT, read from /blob/main/LICENSE.md on 2026-09-29 after both /blob/main/LICENSE and /blob/master/LICENSE returned 404; plain, copyright 2020 Daniel G. Taylor · v2.3.0 (2026-06-30). THE YEAR TRAP: /releases/latest prints "June 30" with no year and it was read as 2024; pkg.go.dev settles it as 2026. No code date could be read for this row, because ungh returned HTTP 429 all morning; currency rests on a release three months old, which is comfortably inside the eighteen-month bar. · Track this in Scout

A command-line tool for calling web APIs that builds short commands from the API's own description and remembers a login for each service.

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Stars1,400

LicenceMIT, read from /blob/main/LICENSE.md on 2026-09-29 after both /blob/main/LICENSE and /blob/master/LICENSE returned 404; plain, copyright 2020 Daniel G. Taylor

Latestv2.3.0 (2026-06-30). THE YEAR TRAP: /releases/latest prints "June 30" with no year and it was read as 2024; pkg.go.dev settles it as 2026. No code date could be read for this row, because ungh returned HTTP 429 all morning; currency rests on a release three months old, which is comfortably inside the eighteen-month bar.

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