Can I use redis-cli with a connection URL?
No, at the moment (v3.2.1) redis-cli does not support the URI connection schema. If you want, you can make a feature or pull request for that in the Redis repository.
UPDATE:The -u option was released with Redis 4.0, see Release notes. For example:
redis-cli -u redis://user:pass@host:6379/0
For those who cannot wait for the next Redis release won't be able to update their redis-cli, I made a simple bash function that seems to work for my case (Heroku). This is to be added to ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bashrc:
function redis-url() { # Get the first argument as the URL variable url=$1 # Parse and generate the command: redis-cli -h [hostname] -p [port] -a [password] cmd=`echo $url | sed 's_redis://\(.*\):\(.*\)@\(.*\):\(.*\)_redis-cli -h \3 -p \4 -a \2_'` # Run the command $cmd}I can then type the following in my terminal:
redis-url redis://rediscloud:mysupersecurepassword@hostname.com:1234