Developer tools to accelerate development of Locust jobs
npm install @achannarasappa/locust-cli
❯ locust
locust <command>
Commands:
locust run run in single job mode
locust start starts a job and crawls until a stop condition is met
locust stop Stop running jobs and stop redis and browserless containers
locust generate generate a job definition through a series of prompts
locust validate validate a job definition
locust info information on queue state and jobs in each status
Options:
-v, --version Show version number [boolean]
-h, --help Show help [boolean]
Interactively generate a job definition file with locust generate by answering a set of prompts.
Running a job with locust run makes a request to the entrypoint url and runs the extract hook which is a lightweight way to test that the defined CSS selectors and other data extraction logic works as expected.
Simulate and debug a job run on a cloud provider without pushing up code or provisioning infrastructure. locust start will run a job as it would on a cloud provider and presents a dashboard to help understand what the job is doing and identify potential problem areas.
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