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Kapow!
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**Kapow!** If you can script it, you can HTTP it.
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|Section | Info |
|----------------|------------------------------------------------|
|Project site | https://github.com/BBVA/kapow |
|Issues | https://github.com/BBVA/kapow/issues/ |
|Documentation | https://kapow.readthedocs.io |
|Author | BBVA Innovation Labs |
|Latest Version | v0.3.0 |
# What's Kapow!
Say you have nice cozy **shell command** that solves a problem for you. Kapow! let us easily **turn that into an HTTP API**.
## Let's see this with an example
We want to expose **log entries** for files not found on our **Apache Web Server**, as an HTTP API. With Kapow! we just need to write this file:
```bash
[apache-host]$ cat search-apache-errors.pow
kapow route add /apache-errors - <<-'EOF'
cat /var/log/apache2/access.log | grep "File does not exist" | kapow set /response/body
EOF
```
and then, run it using Kapow!
```bash
[apache-host]$ kapow server --bind 0.0.0.0:8080 search-apache-errors.pow
```
finally, we can read from the just-defined endpoint:
```bash
[another-host]$ curl http://apache-host:8080/apache-errors
[Fri Feb 01 22:07:57.154391 2019] [core:info] [pid 7:tid 140284200093440] [client 172.17.0.1:50756] AH00128: File does not exist: /usr/var/www/mysite/favicon.ico
[Fri Feb 01 22:07:57.808291 2019] [core:info] [pid 8:tid 140284216878848] [client 172.17.0.1:50758] AH00128: File does not exist: /usr/var/www/mysite/favicon.ico
[Fri Feb 01 22:07:57.878149 2019] [core:info] [pid 8:tid 140284208486144] [client 172.17.0.1:50758] AH00128: File does not exist: /usr/var/www/mysite/favicon.ico
...
```
## Why Kapow! shines in these cases
- We can share information without having grant SSH access to anybody.
- We want to limit what is executed.
- We can share information easily over HTTP.
# Documentation
Here you can find the complete documentation [here](https://kapow.readthedocs.io)
# Authors
Kapow! is being developed by BBVA-Labs Security team members:
- Roberto Martinez
- Hector Hurtado
- César Gallego
- pancho horrillo
Kapow! is Open Source Software and available under the [Apache 2 license](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BBVA/kapow/master/LICENSE).
# Contributions
Contributions are of course welcome. See [CONTRIBUTING](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BBVA/kapow/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.rst) or skim existing tickets to see where you could help out.