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Comment by victor106 | Hacker News Reader

I have a few apps that expose logs over a http endpoint. I have to download them every time to view them and I cannot tail them.

Anyone has recommendations for an app to tail log files over http?

`tail` is just loading the last bytes of a file. If the server supports byte ranges you can do this with `curl` over http as well:

Last 100 bytes of a website:

  $ curl -sr -100 https://example.com

An approximation of `tail -f`:

  $ watch -n10 curl -sr -100 https://example.com

Very useful, will try this out. Thanks

i bet some combination of netcat and tail would do it.

Can you pipe httpie into tail?

Yes, you can.

curl, tee, grep, less