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The official command line client for RIPE Atlas

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RIPE Atlas Tools (Magellan)
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The official command-line client for RIPE Atlas.


Full Documentation
------------------

Everything is up on `ReadTheDocs`_


How Does it Work?
-----------------

Presently, the setup is pretty crude. You can create a ping or traceroute
measurement with limited options from the command line:

.. code:: bash

$ ripe-atlas measure ping --target example.com
$ ripe-atlas measure ping --packets 7 --size 42 --target example.com
$ ripe-atlas measure traceroute --target example.com
$ ripe-atlas measure traceroute --packets 2 --target example.com
$ ripe-atlas measure dns --query-argument example.com
$ ripe-atlas measure dns --use-probe-resolver --query-type AAAA --query-argument example.com

This will create a one-off measurement and then wait for the results to roll in,
formatting them as they do.

You can also use it to connect to a stream of formatted data. This command will
start streaming out all of the results from one of our oldest measurements:

.. code:: bash

$ ripe-atlas stream 1001

Or you can generate a simple report:

.. code:: bash

$ ripe-atlas report 1001

Configuration is done by way of a config file, and modifying it can be done from
the command line:

.. code:: bash

$ ripe-atlas configure --set authorisation.create=MY_API_KEY


Can I Contribute?
-----------------

Absolutely. Please read our `guide`_ on how to contribute.


Colophon
--------

This project was code-named by means of a `poll`_. In order to conform to the
RIPE Atlas theme, it had to be named for an explorer, and so the winning
suggestion was for Magellan, *"in memory of those times when RTT was ~3 years"*.

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.. _ReadTheDocs: https://ripe-atlas-tools.readthedocs.org/
.. _guide: https://github.com/RIPE-NCC/ripe-atlas-tools/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.rst
.. _poll: https://github.com/RIPE-NCC/ripe-atlas-tools/issues/13
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Release History
===============
2.2 (released 2017-10-12)
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Features and changes
~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Align various option defaults, minimums and maximums with API reality, including...
- ... allow the set of options necessary for "TCP ping" measurements https://labs.ripe.net/Members/wilhelm/measuring-your-web-server-reachability-with-tcp-ping
- Add compact DNS results renderer
- Fix some unicode output issues

2.1 (released 2016-04-21)
---------------------------

New Features
~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Add a simple NTP renderer

Changes
~~~~~~~
- Use new cousteau (1.4) & sagan(1.2) versions.

Bug Fixes
~~~~~~~~~
- Fix for some unicode problems when using colors
- Fix issue #177, with `gdbm` problem.

2.0.2 (released 2016-10-21)
---------------------------

New Features
~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Add aliases to measurements IDs
- Add --traceroute-show-asns to traceroute renderer

Bug Fixes
~~~~~~~~~
- Stream command was not passing the correct API key. After API became stricter this command started failing.
- Handle missing geometry for probes.
- Fix issues for AS-paths with only 1 probe
- Various fixes for tests

2.0.1 (released 2016-04-20)
---------------------------

Changes
~~~~~~~
- Corrected references in the docs to obsolete command names.
- Fixed broken 2.0.0 egg.


2.0.0 (released 2016-04-20)
---------------------------

Changes
~~~~~~~
- Renamed and merged some commands for clarity, preserving the old names as deprecated aliases.
- Improved help text and usage output.
- Support for bash auto-completion.


1.2.3 (released 2016-03-08)
---------------------------

Changes
~~~~~~~
- Usage of newest Cousteau/Sagan library.
- Support of API keys for fetching results on report command.
- Default radius for probes filtering is changed to 15.
- Several changes for supporting Windows.


1.2.2 (released 2016-01-13)
---------------------------

New Features
~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Cleaner and more consistent implementation of the renderer plugable
architecture.
- Usage of newest Cousteau library.


1.2.1 (released 2015-12-15)
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Bug Fixes
~~~~~~~~~
- Restored some required template files.


1.2.0 (released 2015-12-15)
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Output Changes
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- `#119`_: Support HTTP results.
- `#122`_: Allow packagers to set the user agent.


1.1.1 (released 2015-11-25)
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Output Changes
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- `#103`_: Removed header from the ``report`` command.

Bug Fixes
~~~~~~~~~
- `#105`_: Measurement report and stream broken on Python3.4.

1.1.0 (released 2015-11-12)
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New features
~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Support for the creation of NTP, SSLCert, and HTTP measurements.
- Additional argument in report command to filter results by probe ASN.
- Additional renderer that shows the different destination ASNs and some
additional stats about them.

Bug Fixes
~~~~~~~~~
- Various fixes.

Changes
~~~~~~~
- Better testing.
- Additional documentation.

1.0.0 (released 2015-11-02)
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- Initial release.

.. _#103: https://github.com/RIPE-NCC/ripe-atlas-tools/issues/103
.. _#105: https://github.com/RIPE-NCC/ripe-atlas-tools/issues/105
.. _#119: https://github.com/RIPE-NCC/ripe-atlas-tools/issues/119
.. _#122: https://github.com/RIPE-NCC/ripe-atlas-tools/issues/122


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