How do I get the same result of consul kv get -recurse with consul http api?

Question

I want to retrieve all saved keys and values of consul servers using its http api. Or at least how to get all saved keys using http api?

Answer 1

I used python-consul library. Here's the example

import consul
consul_server = consul.Consul(host='127.0.0.1', port=8500)
consul_kv = consul_server.kv.get(key='', recurse=True)

Answer 2

You can use curl to retrieve the value for particular key.

curl \ <your consul url>/v1/kv/<yourkey>

I haven't used curl directly much but libraries which gives more flexibility to use consul api. I have used diplomat in this which is a very powerful and yet very simple to use, its written in ruby. For getting all key value pairs recursively I can use get method

Diplomat::Kv.get('/', recurse: true)

Answer 3

I have developed a cli to list all the keys and values and export options also https://github.com/amjad489/goconsul