Setting user agent for curl

currency/currency

@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ checkInternet()
 ## Grabs the exchange rate and does the math for converting the currency
 convertCurrency()
 {
-  exchangeRate=$(curl -s "http://api.fixer.io/latest?base=$base&symbols=$exchangeTo" | grep -Eo "[0-9]*[.][0-9]*") > /dev/null
+  exchangeRate=$(curl -Acurl -s "http://api.fixer.io/latest?base=$base&symbols=$exchangeTo" | grep -Eo "[0-9]*[.][0-9]*") > /dev/null
   exchangeAmount=$(echo "$exchangeRate * $amount" | bc  )
   echo
   echo "========================="
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ update()
   repositoryName="Bash-Snippets" #Name of repostiory to be updated ex. Sandman-Lite
   githubUserName="alexanderepstein" #username that hosts the repostiory ex. alexanderepstein
   nameOfInstallFile="install.sh" # change this if the installer file has a different name be sure to include file extension if there is one
-  latestVersion=$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/$githubUserName/$repositoryName/tags | grep -Eo '"name":.*?[^\\]",'| head -1 | grep -Eo "[0-9.]+" ) #always grabs the tag without the v option
+  latestVersion=$(curl -Acurl -s https://api.github.com/repos/$githubUserName/$repositoryName/tags | grep -Eo '"name":.*?[^\\]",'| head -1 | grep -Eo "[0-9.]+" ) #always grabs the tag without the v option
 
   if [[ $currentVersion == "" || $repositoryName == "" || $githubUserName == "" || $nameOfInstallFile == "" ]];then
     echo "Error: update utility has not been configured correctly." >&2
@@ -234,6 +234,7 @@ elif [[ $# == "1" ]]; then
     usage
   else
     echo "Not a valid argument"
+    exit 1
   fi
 elif [[ $# == 3 ]];then
   checkBase $1

movies/movies

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ getMovieInfo()
 {
   apiKey=946f500a # try not to abuse this it is a key that came from the ruby-scripts repo I link to.
   movie="$1+$2+$3+$4+$5+$6+$7+$8+$9" ## format the inputs to use for the api
-  movieInfo=$(curl -s "http://www.omdbapi.com/?t=$movie&apikey=$apiKey") > /dev/null # query the server and get the JSON response
+  movieInfo=$(curl -Acurl -s "http://www.omdbapi.com/?t=$movie&apikey=$apiKey") > /dev/null # query the server and get the JSON response
   checkResponse=$(echo $movieInfo | python -c "import sys, json; print json.load(sys.stdin)['Response']")
   if [[ $checkResponse == "False" ]];then { echo "No movie found" ; return 1 ;} fi ## check to see if the movie was found
   # The rest of the code is just extrapolating the data with python from the JSON response
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ update()
   repositoryName="Bash-Snippets" #Name of repostiory to be updated ex. Sandman-Lite
   githubUserName="alexanderepstein" #username that hosts the repostiory ex. alexanderepstein
   nameOfInstallFile="install.sh" # change this if the installer file has a different name be sure to include file extension if there is one
-  latestVersion=$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/$githubUserName/$repositoryName/tags | grep -Eo '"name":.*?[^\\]",'| head -1 | grep -Eo "[0-9.]+" ) #always grabs the tag without the v option
+  latestVersion=$(curl -Acurl -s https://api.github.com/repos/$githubUserName/$repositoryName/tags | grep -Eo '"name":.*?[^\\]",'| head -1 | grep -Eo "[0-9.]+" ) #always grabs the tag without the v option
 
   if [[ $currentVersion == "" || $repositoryName == "" || $githubUserName == "" || $nameOfInstallFile == "" ]];then
     echo "Error: update utility has not been configured correctly." >&2

stocks/stocks

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ checkInternet()
 ## JSON response to extrapolate the information for storage
 getStockInformation()
 {
-  stockInfo=$(curl -s  "https://www.alphavantage.co/query?function=GLOBAL_QUOTE&symbol=$1&apikey=KPCCCRJVMOGN9L6T") > /dev/null #grab the JSON response
+  stockInfo=$(curl -Acurl -s  "https://www.alphavantage.co/query?function=GLOBAL_QUOTE&symbol=$1&apikey=KPCCCRJVMOGN9L6T") > /dev/null #grab the JSON response
   export PYTHONIOENCODING=utf8 #necessary for python in some cases
   echo $stockInfo | python -c "import sys, json; print json.load(sys.stdin)['Realtime Global Securities Quote']['02. Exchange Name']" > /dev/null 2>&1 || { echo "Not a valid stock symbol" ; exit 1; } #checking if we get any information back from the server if not chances are it isnt a valid stock symbol
   # The rest of the code is just extrapolating the data with python from the JSON response
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ printStockInformation()
 ## and it will determine the stock symbol for apple is AAPL and move on from there
 getTicker()
 {
-  response=$(curl -s "http://d.yimg.com/autoc.finance.yahoo.com/autoc?query=$1+$2+$3+$4+$5+$6+$7+$8+$9&region=1&lang=en%22") > /dev/null
+  response=$(curl -Acurl -s "http://d.yimg.com/autoc.finance.yahoo.com/autoc?query=$1+$2+$3+$4+$5+$6+$7+$8+$9&region=1&lang=en%22") > /dev/null
   symbol=$(echo $response | python -c "import sys, json; print json.load(sys.stdin)['ResultSet']['Result'][0]['symbol']") # using python to extrapolate the stock symbol
   unset response #just unsets the entire response after using it since all I need is the stock ticker
 }
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ update()
   repositoryName="Bash-Snippets" #Name of repostiory to be updated ex. Sandman-Lite
   githubUserName="alexanderepstein" #username that hosts the repostiory ex. alexanderepstein
   nameOfInstallFile="install.sh" # change this if the installer file has a different name be sure to include file extension if there is one
-  latestVersion=$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/$githubUserName/$repositoryName/tags | grep -Eo '"name":.*?[^\\]",'| head -1 | grep -Eo "[0-9.]+" ) #always grabs the tag without the v option
+  latestVersion=$(curl -Acurl -s https://api.github.com/repos/$githubUserName/$repositoryName/tags | grep -Eo '"name":.*?[^\\]",'| head -1 | grep -Eo "[0-9.]+" ) #always grabs the tag without the v option
 
   if [[ $currentVersion == "" || $repositoryName == "" || $githubUserName == "" || $nameOfInstallFile == "" ]];then
     echo "Error: update utility has not been configured correctly." >&2

weather/weather

@@ -15,21 +15,21 @@ checkCurl()
 
 getIPWeather()
 {
-  country=$(curl -s ipinfo.io/country) > /dev/null ## grab the country
+  country=$(curl -Acurl -s ipinfo.io/country) > /dev/null ## grab the country
   if [[ $country == "US" ]];then ## if were in the us id rather not use longitude and latitude so the output is nicer
-    city=$(curl -s ipinfo.io/city) > /dev/null
-    region=$(curl -s ipinfo.io/region) > /dev/null
+    city=$(curl -Acurl -s ipinfo.io/city) > /dev/null
+    region=$(curl -Acurl -s ipinfo.io/region) > /dev/null
     region=$(echo "$region" | tr -dc '[:upper:]')
-    curl $locale.wttr.in/$city,$region$1
+    curl -Acurl $locale.wttr.in/$city,$region$1
   else ## otherwise we are going to use longitude and latitude
-    location=$(curl -s ipinfo.io/loc) > /dev/null
-    curl $locale.wttr.in/$location$1
+    location=$(curl -Acurl-s ipinfo.io/loc) > /dev/null
+    curl -Acurl $locale.wttr.in/$location$1
   fi
 }
 
 getLocationWeather()
 {
-  curl $locale.wttr.in/$1+$2+$3+$4
+  curl -Acurl $locale.wttr.in/$1+$2+$3+$4
 }
 
 checkInternet()
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ update()
   repositoryName="Bash-Snippets" #Name of repostiory to be updated ex. Sandman-Lite
   githubUserName="alexanderepstein" #username that hosts the repostiory ex. alexanderepstein
   nameOfInstallFile="install.sh" # change this if the installer file has a different name be sure to include file extension if there is one
-  latestVersion=$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/$githubUserName/$repositoryName/tags | grep -Eo '"name":.*?[^\\]",'| head -1 | grep -Eo "[0-9.]+" ) #always grabs the tag without the v option
+  latestVersion=$(curl -Acurl -s https://api.github.com/repos/$githubUserName/$repositoryName/tags | grep -Eo '"name":.*?[^\\]",'| head -1 | grep -Eo "[0-9.]+" ) #always grabs the tag without the v option
 
   if [[ $currentVersion == "" || $repositoryName == "" || $githubUserName == "" || $nameOfInstallFile == "" ]];then
     echo "Error: update utility has not been configured correctly." >&2