ProfitEngine Bash Client

Bash/cURL client for the ProfitEngine API -- 32+ developer tools accessible from the command line.

Features

• QR Code Generation -- Generate QR codes as PNG or SVG
• Email Validation -- Validate email addresses with MX record and disposable email checks
• URL Shortening -- Shorten long URLs into compact links
• UUID Generation -- Generate UUID v4, v5, and v7
• Hashing -- Hash strings with MD5, SHA1, SHA256, SHA512
• Base64 Encoding/Decoding -- Encode and decode Base64 strings
• Crypto Prices -- Get current cryptocurrency prices
• Password Strength -- Evaluate password strength
• And 25+ More -- Color conversion, timestamp parsing, text statistics, word count, slugify, MIME type lookup, HTTP status codes, lorem ipsum, URI encoding/decoding, time between dates, number formatting, currency conversion, HTTP headers, URL parsing, country info, emoji info, user agent parsing, cron expression parsing, random string generation, Markdown to HTML conversion

Requirements

• bash 4+ (for associative arrays)
• curl
• jq (recommended for JSON pretty-printing)

Quick Start

source profitengine.sh
export PE_API_KEY="sk-your-key-here"

# Generate a QR code
pe_qr "https://example.com" > qr.png

# Validate an email address
pe_validate_email "user@example.com"

# Shorten a URL
pe_shorten_url "https://example.com/long/path"

# Get cryptocurrency price
pe_crypto_price "BTC" "USD"

Configuration

Variable	Default	Description
PE_API_KEY	(required)	Your ProfitEngine API key
PE_BASE_URL	http://204.152.217.59:8080	API base URL
PE_TIMEOUT	30	cURL timeout in seconds
PE_VERBOSE	false	Set to true to see cURL output

Usage

Source the library and call any function. All functions that return JSON accept an optional trailing pretty argument to format output through jq.

source profitengine.sh
export PE_API_KEY="sk-your-key-here"

# Pretty-print JSON results
pe_country_info "Japan" pretty
pe_crypto_price "ETH" "EUR" pretty

# Save binary output (QR codes)
pe_qr "https://example.com" 500 png ff0000 ffffff H > custom-qr.png

Available Functions

Core

• pe_qr <data> [size] [format] [color] [bg] [error]
• pe_qr_data_url <data> [size]
• pe_validate_email <email>
• pe_shorten_url <url>
• pe_metadata <url>
• pe_stats

Tools

• pe_uuid [version]
• pe_hash <text> [algorithm]
• pe_base64_encode <text>
• pe_base64_decode <encoded>
• pe_color_info <hex>
• pe_timestamp [timezone] [format]
• pe_text_stats <text>
• pe_word_count <text>
• pe_slugify <text>
• pe_mime_type <filename>
• pe_http_status <code>
• pe_lorem_ipsum [paragraphs] [words]
• pe_crypto_price [symbol] [currency]
• pe_password_strength <password>
• pe_encode_uri <text>
• pe_decode_uri <encoded>
• pe_time_between <start> [end] [unit]
• pe_number_format <number> [decimals] [locale]
• pe_currency_convert <amount> [from] [to]
• pe_http_headers [url]
• pe_url_parse <url>
• pe_country_info <country>
• pe_emoji_info <emoji>
• pe_user_agent_parse <user_agent>
• pe_cron_parser <expression>
• pe_random_string [length] [charset]
• pe_markdown_to_html <markdown>

Getting an API Key

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