httpie/cli
🥧 HTTPie CLI — modern, user-friendly command-line HTTP client for the API era. JSON support, colors, sessions, downloads, plugins & more.
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Use Cases & Benefits
- HTTPie CLI is a modern, user-friendly command-line HTTP client designed for testing, debugging, and interacting with APIs and HTTP servers.
- Key features include expressive syntax, formatted and colorized output, built-in JSON support, sessions, file uploads, authentication, and wget-like downloads.
- Strengths are its intuitive interface, extensive protocol support, and active community; limitations may include reliance on Python and CLI environment.
- Organizations can integrate HTTPie into development and DevOps workflows for API testing, debugging, and automation with persistent sessions and custom plugins.
- Ideal use cases include API development, debugging HTTP requests, automated API testing, and quick command-line interactions with RESTful services.
About cli
HTTPie CLI: human-friendly HTTP client for the API era
HTTPie (pronounced aitch-tee-tee-pie) is a command-line HTTP client.
Its goal is to make CLI interaction with web services as human-friendly as possible.
HTTPie is designed for testing, debugging, and generally interacting with APIs & HTTP servers.
The http & https commands allow for creating and sending arbitrary HTTP requests.
They use simple and natural syntax and provide formatted and colorized output.
We lost 54k GitHub stars
Please note we recently accidentally made this repo private for a moment, and GitHub deleted our community that took a decade to build. Read the full story here: https://httpie.io/blog/stardust
Getting started
Features
- Expressive and intuitive syntax
- Formatted and colorized terminal output
- Built-in JSON support
- Forms and file uploads
- HTTPS, proxies, and authentication
- Arbitrary request data
- Custom headers
- Persistent sessions
wget-like downloads
Examples
Hello World:
https httpie.io/hello
Custom HTTP method, HTTP headers and JSON data:
http PUT pie.dev/put X-API-Token:123 name=John
Build and print a request without sending it using offline mode:
http --offline pie.dev/post hello=offline
Use GitHub API to post a comment on an Issue with authentication:
http -a USERNAME POST https://api.github.com/repos/httpie/cli/issues/83/comments body='HTTPie is awesome! :heart:'
Community & support
- Visit the HTTPie website for full documentation and useful links.
- Join our Discord server is to ask questions, discuss features, and for general API chat.
- Tweet at @httpie on Twitter.
- Use StackOverflow to ask questions and include a
httpietag. - Create GitHub Issues for bug reports and feature requests.
- Subscribe to the HTTPie newsletter for occasional updates.
Contributing
Have a look through existing Issues and Pull Requests that you could help with. If you'd like to request a feature or report a bug, please create a GitHub Issue using one of the templates provided.
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