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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

…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

…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

…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?

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

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

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?

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

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

I use HTTPie which is similar and easily installed through pip. https://github.com/jkbrzt/httpie

comment by martiuk · 2015-09-14 · in The HTTP TTY

https://github.com/jkbrzt/httpie

comment by _druu · 2015-08-17 · in A Scripting Language for HTTP

Why did you fork the repo and link to that instead of linking to the original? Original: https://github.com/jkbrzt/httpie

comment by yAnonymous · 2015-07-20 · in A cURL and Wget alternative with easy syntax and color highlight – HTTPie

…requests you make (as opposed to a GUI). Though, it has a nice persistence feature with sessions ( https://github.com/jakubroztocil/httpie#sessions ). It's the nice thing with GUIs (Paw, Postman...)! Paw saves all your work in ".paw"…

comment by mittsh · 2015-06-09 · in Paw: The ultimate REST client for Mac

I've tried to use both Paw and Postman. Always ended up going back to HTTPie ( https://github.com/jakubroztocil/httpie ). It's much faster than clicking through a GUI, at least for basic requests (which is what 95% of requests are). Don't…

comment by connor4312 · 2015-06-09 · in Paw: The ultimate REST client for Mac

I don't see the improvement over something like HTTPie ( https://github.com/jakubroztocil/httpie ).

comment by joined · 2015-05-25 · in Show HN: HTTPLang – a scripting language for making HTTP requests

Or https://github.com/jakubroztocil/httpie .

comment by lgas · 2015-05-25 · in Show HN: HTTPLang – a scripting language for making HTTP requests

…dependencies to be installed manually (will happen automatically in next version of HTTPie): https://github.com/jakubroztocil/httpie#sni-server-name-indi... As for HTTP/2, there is an experimental extension for now:…

comment by jkbr · 2015-04-27 · in Jq – A Command-line JSON processor

…highlighting, extensions, etc. Comparison of the two in one screenshot can be seen in the README: https://github.com/jakubroztocil/httpie#readme (Disclaimer: I created HTTPie)

comment by jkbr · 2015-04-27 · in Jq – A Command-line JSON processor

…this for a couple months now. With httpie[1], it's become as essential to my work day as Grep. [1] https://github.com/jakubroztocil/httpie

comment by xahrepap · 2015-04-27 · in Jq – A Command-line JSON processor

…I need to load-test a service real quick, and curl can make requests much faster than httpie. [1] https://github.com/jakubroztocil/httpie

comment by joemccall86 · 2015-04-23 · in Online curl command line builder

Or use https://github.com/jakubroztocil/httpie

comment by sleepyhead · 2015-04-23 · in Online curl command line builder