ccu-tool provides ruby bindings and a CLI to easily interact with the Akamai CCU API(the API used for cache invalidation).

Currently there are bindings for the three methods provided by the CCU API v2.

• POST /ccu/v2/queues/<queue_name>: Sends a purge request to the queue, containing the desired objects in JSON format.
• GET /ccu/v2/queues/<queue_name>: Gets the length of the queue, informing the objects to be purged.
• GET /ccu/v2/purges/<purge_id>: Gets the status of a previous purge request.

Before start to use the Library or the CLI tool, it's necessary to install the required dependencies.

Install httpie, on Debian-based systems the following installation should satisfy the dependencies.

$ sudo apt-get install httpie

And on Red Hat-based systems:

$ sudo yum install httpie

After the system dependencies were installed, you may now proceed to the Akamai's httpie plugin installation.

$ pip install httpie-edgegrid

Create the ~/.edgerc file containing the credentials for the API access(provided by Akamai).

As the --help option suggests:

$ ccu-tool --help
Usage: ccu-tool [option] [argument]
    -a, --arl-purge x,y,z            Send purge request for the desired objects based on ARL
    -c, --cp-purge x,y,z             Send purge request for the desired objects based on CP codes
    -l, --get-queue-length           Get the length of the queue for purge requests
    -s, --get-purge-status id        Get the status of a previous purge request

require_relative 'src/ccu_tool'

objects = ["http://www.example.com/graphics/picture.gif", "http://www.example.com/documents/brochure.pdf"]
CCUTool.purge(objects)

CCUTool.get_queue_length

CCUTool.get_purge_status(purge_id)

Stephano Zanzin - @microwaves