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httpie (xh) gives way better UX for api testing and related tasks. https://github.com/httpie/cli https://github.com/ducaale/xh

comment by mithcs · 2025-10-21 · in Just Use Curl

There's so many more! 1. `uvx --from git+ https://github.com/httpie/cli httpie` 2. https://simonwillison.net/2024/Aug/21/usrbinenv-uv-run/ uv in a shebang

comment by emiller88 · 2025-01-12 · in Uv's killer feature is making ad-hoc environments easy

…for some users. It’s already fixed in a PR [3] and will be part of the upcoming release. [0] https://github.com/httpie/cli/blob/master/httpie/internal/up... [1] https://github.com/httpie/packages.httpie.io/blob/master/lat... [2]…

comment by jkbr · 2024-08-24 · in Wcurl Is Here

…HTTP client for the API era. JSON support, colors, sessions, downloads, plugins & more." https://github.com/httpie/cli

comment by jabr · 2024-08-23 · in Wcurl Is Here

…code just to attract devs and look open source-y It's an HTTP client. The client codebase is here: https://github.com/httpie/cli Why everyone is getting their knickers in a massive twist because they have an Electron wrapper that they…

comment by da39a3ee · 2023-10-09 · in HTTPie Desktop: cross-platform API testing client for humans

Their project that I am most familiar with is there CLI https://github.com/httpie/cli

comment by EricBetts · 2023-10-09 · in HTTPie Desktop: cross-platform API testing client for humans

On the bright side, the HTTPie CLI is open-source: https://github.com/httpie/cli/blob/master/LICENSE

comment by Nezteb · 2023-10-02 · in Bruno: Open-Source IDE for Exploring and Testing APIs

…, https://github.com/flawiddsouza/Restfox If you want a more minimal solution/CLI https://github.com/httpie/cli and https://github.com/ducaale/xh work

comment by byyll · 2023-09-28 · in Insomnia REST client now requires an account

…warning) but did work with curl (and the browsers I added the RootCA to). I found the explanation: https://github.com/httpie/httpie/issues/480 httpie doesn't look into /usr/local/share/ca-certificates but apparently it's not httpie's…

comment by johnchristopher · 2023-06-25 · in Everything that uses configuration files should report where they're located

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Httpie: Modern, user-friendly command-line HTTP client for the API era

story by tosh · 2022-11-28 · 2 comments

…currently. 1: https://github.com/sayanarijit/xplr 2: https://github.com/sharkdp/hyperfine 3: https://github.com/httpie/httpie

comment by reissbaker · 2022-10-14 · in Ask HN: Is it still possible to live in a terminal?

…would be curlie (go frontend for curl - https://github.com/rs/curlie ) vs httpie (pure python - https://github.com/httpie/httpie ). Originally I used httpie for its easier syntax, but it is very noticeably slower than curlie. I presume…

comment by imran-iq · 2022-06-04 · in Show HN: GraphQL Client in the Terminal

I don't think any fork was deleted. 3.5k forks as of now vs 3.4k forks in January: https://web.archive.org/web/20220129022012/https://github.co... Many people won't notice some of their stars having disappeared, but many would be surprised…

comment by whym · 2022-04-15 · in We lost 54k GitHub stars

Well, it is at the top of Hacker News. If everyone just goes to https://github.com/httpie/httpie and stars it again - we'll fix it in a jiffy!

comment by capdeck · 2022-04-14 · in We lost 54k GitHub stars

…it comes to practical literate programming. [1] https://github.com/google/zx#markdown-scripts [2] https://github.com/httpie/httpie [3] https://github.com/xo/usql

comment by lf-non · 2022-03-22 · in Literate programming is much more than just commenting code

…I use for this. I use shell scripts, with httpie commands which look very much like http syntax. https://github.com/httpie/httpie

comment by SixDouble5321 · 2022-03-01 · in Hoppscotch: Open-source alternative to Postman

…the desktop app! [0] https://github.com/jdp/jarg [1] https://www.w3.org/TR/html-json-forms/ [2] https://github.com/httpie/httpie/blob/master/httpie/cli/nest... — this is the path parser

comment by jkbr · 2022-02-06 · in Jo – a shell command to create JSON (2016)

…didn't support HTTP/2, so I had to fall back to curl. The ticket for HTTP/2 in HTTPie is still open https://github.com/httpie/httpie/issues/692 Happy to see that xh supports HTTP/2 out of the box.

comment by kbd · 2022-01-20 · in The time might come when we add some JSON specific command line options

TIL: HTTPie added a shorthand for HTTPS requests with v2.0.0 [1] https httpie.io/hello [1]: https://github.com/httpie/httpie/blob/master/CHANGELOG.rst#2...

comment by divbzero · 2021-04-21 · in Ask HN: Show me the sexy, sexy home page of your favorite free CLI project

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HTTPie 2.0.0 Released

story by geek-advised · 2020-01-14 · 0 comments

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HTTPie 2.0.0 Is Out

story by samber · 2020-01-13 · 0 comments

…arguments. In what way is any of this opaque when it's fully documented and quite easy to follow?: https://github.com/jakubroztocil/httpie#id16

comment by BoorishBears · 2019-12-01 · in HTTPie – A user-friendly CLI HTTP client

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story by _ghm2 · 2019-12-01 · 89 comments

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HTTPie: A CLI, cURL-like tool for humans

story by ducaale · 2019-06-21 · 0 comments

…session recorder https://github.com/asciinema/asciinema - httpie: Modern command line HTTP client https://github.com/jakubroztocil/httpie - visidata: A terminal spreadsheet multitool for discovering and arranging data…

comment by zodiac · 2018-05-07 · in Ask HN: What are your favorite terminal programs?

…session recorder https://github.com/asciinema/asciinema - httpie: Modern command line HTTP client https://github.com/jakubroztocil/httpie - visidata: A terminal spreadsheet multitool for discovering and arranging data…

comment by Dowwie · 2018-05-07 · in Ask HN: What are your favorite terminal programs?

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Httpie: A cURL alternative

story by minaandrawos · 2018-01-26 · 18 comments

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Show HN: HTTPie: a CLI, cURL-like tool for humans

story by made2591 · 2017-10-26 · 1 comment

httpie: https://github.com/jakubroztocil/httpie (cURL for humans) Httpie is my goto http cli for all systems. Pretty much PostMan (that a lot of ppl use for no reason) but without annoying UI and on a single line. Formats JSON and colors…

comment by parmesan · 2017-10-09 · in Show HN: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find, written in Rust

httpie: https://github.com/jakubroztocil/httpie (http client) jq: https://stedolan.github.io/jq/ (lightweight JSON client)

comment by nemild · 2017-10-08 · in Show HN: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find, written in Rust

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HTTPie

story by tosh · 2017-05-11 · 0 comments

I'd also recommend taking a look at httpie, if you don't mind cli. 1 - https://github.com/jkbrzt/httpie

comment by AsyncAwait · 2017-03-06 · in Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up

This feature is planned: https://github.com/jkbrzt/httpie/issues/78

comment by jkbr · 2016-08-14 · in HTTPie 0.9.6

Needs extra dependencies on many python versions: https://github.com/jkbrzt/httpie#sni-server-name-indication

comment by detaro · 2016-08-14 · in HTTPie 0.9.6

…before my (irrelevant?) rant about the duplicated submission. [1] https://twitter.com/jkbrzt [2] https://github.com/jkbrzt/httpie/releases/tag/0.9.6

comment by guessmyname · 2016-08-14 · in HTTPie 0.9.6

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story by jkbr · 2016-08-13 · 36 comments

For this application, I feel you'd be better off with HTTPie. No really, it's ace: https://github.com/jkbrzt/httpie

comment by shabble · 2016-07-05 · in The Food Lab: Why Does Pepperoni Curl?

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HTTPie v0.9.4 with improved JSON and SSL support

story by jkbr · 2016-07-01 · 0 comments

For anyone interested, here is a web browser that care about syntax highlighting : https://github.com/jkbrzt/httpie

comment by akeruu · 2016-06-29 · in Ōryōki Web Browser

…the not-yet-released v1.0.0 fixes this by removing the XML formatter completely as discussed in https://github.com/jkbrzt/httpie/issues/443 so my gripe is sorted. I still tend to go back to cURL when I want to see exactly what's been…

comment by paulannesley · 2016-06-08 · in HTTPie: a CLI, cURL-like tool for humans

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HTTPie: a CLI, cURL-like tool for humans

story by celadevra_ · 2016-06-08 · 50 comments

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Httpie: User Friendly CLI HTTP Client

story by dbrgn · 2016-04-08 · 0 comments

There's an issue on GitHub for this: https://github.com/jkbrzt/httpie/issues/325 // author here

comment by jkbr · 2016-03-21 · in Curl is 18 years old tomorrow

As a tangent, I've found httpie to be a decent curl replacement for many uses. https://github.com/jkbrzt/httpie

comment by threatofrain · 2016-03-20 · in Curl is 18 years old tomorrow

https://github.com/jkbrzt/httpie/issues/248

comment by jkbr · 2016-03-05 · in Curl vs. Wget

Relevant GitHub Issue: https://github.com/jkbrzt/httpie/issues/58

comment by jkbr · 2016-03-03 · in Curl vs. Wget

…not going to replace curl or wget usage, but it is a nicer interface in certain circumstances. [1] https://github.com/jkbrzt/httpie

comment by geerlingguy · 2016-03-02 · in Curl vs. Wget

…and url is the url for the tool/project/bot. In this case, one minor tweak might be... HTTPie/%s (https://github.com/jkbrzt/httpie) It's a minor nit, but trying to find something based on "foo/version" alone isn't always easy enough when…

comment by tracker1 · 2015-10-20 · in Httpie: A CLI http client

From the README.rst file at https://github.com/jkbrzt/httpie : HTTPie (pronounced aych-tee-tee-pie) is a command line HTTP client. The name, as written on the repository, is "HTTPie", and not "Httpie" like in the title of this post.…

comment by newscracker · 2015-10-20 · in Httpie: A CLI http client

Slightly offtopic, but I highly recommend using httpie for command line http: https://github.com/jkbrzt/httpie No cheatsheeet needed, the syntax is a lot friendler.

comment by trashcan · 2015-09-18 · in A curl cheat sheet