GetIt! 🚚

GetIt is an easy-to-use resource getter. It is designed to be extremely minimal to the point that a simple example is all you need to learn it completely. To understand what it can do, below are a few examples of it's use.

First, add it to your Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
    getit = "0.1"

Examples

Get a file from your computer:

let response = getit::get("file:///home/user/file.txt").unwrap();
println!("{}", response);

or, even simpler because the default scheme is file:

let response = getit::get("home/user/file.txt").unwrap();
println!("{}", response);

Get a web page via HTTP:

let response = getit::get("http://www.example.com").unwrap();
println!("{}", response);

Get a web page via HTTPS:

let response = getit::get("https://www.example.com").unwrap();
println!("{}", response);

Get remote file via FTP:

let response = getit::get("ftp://user:pass@host/file.txt").unwrap();
println!("{}", response);

• While GetIt will attempt to establish an FTPS connection, it will fall back to bare FTP if the server does not support FTPS.
• Requires ftp feature - enabled by default

Why GetIt?

GetIt is designed to be a simple and lightweight resource getter that can handle a variety of protocols, including file, HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP. It is intended to be easy to use and understand, with a minimal API that provides just the essential functionality.

It started as a personal project to load a configuration file either locally or from a remote server, but the author recognized that it could be useful to others as well. The goal is to provide a tool that is easy to integrate into other projects, without the overhead or mental load of a full-featured library.

Non-Goals

GetIt is designed to be as simple as possible. It is not intended to be a full-featured HTTP client library. If you need a full-featured HTTP client library, check out ureq or reqwest. Similarly, if you need a full-featured FTP client, go find that! This is not that. This is just a simple resource getter. Nothing more.