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HTTPie - Modern Command line HTTP Client


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.

It provides a simple HTTP command that allows for sending arbitrary HTTP requests using a simple and natural syntax, and displays colorized output. HTTPie can be used for testing, debugging, and generally interacting with HTTP servers.


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
  • Python 2.6, 2.7 and 3.x support
  • Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows support
  • Plugins
  • Documentation
  • Test coverage

Installation

  • macOS
On macOS, HTTPie can be installed via Homebrew (recommended):
$ brew install httpie
A MacPorts port is also available:
$ port install httpie

  • Linux
Most Linux distributions provide a package that can be installed using the system package manager, for example:
# Debian, Ubuntu, etc.
 $ apt-get install httpie
# Fedora
 $ dnf install httpie
# CentOS, RHEL, ...
 $ yum install httpie
 
# Arch Linux
 $ pacman -S httpie

  • Windows, etc.
A universal installation method (that works on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, …, and always provides the latest version) is to use pip:
# Make sure we have an up-to-date version of pip and setuptools:
 $ pip install --upgrade pip setuptools
 
 $ pip install --upgrade httpie
(If pip installation fails for some reason, you can try easy_install httpie as a fallback.)

Usage:

$ http [flags] [METHOD] URL [ITEM [ITEM]]

Examples:

  • Custom HTTP method, HTTP headers and JSON data:
$ http PUT example.org X-API-Token:123 name=John

  • Submitting forms:
$ http -f POST example.org hello=World

  • See the request that is being sent using one of the output options:
$ http -v example.org

  • Use Github API to post a comment on an issue with authentication:
$ http -a USERNAME POST https://api.github.com/repos/jakubroztocil/httpie/issues/
 83/comments body='HTTPie is awesome! :heart:'

  • Upload a file using redirected input:
$ http example.org < file.json

  • Download a file and save it via redirected output:
$ http example.org/file > file

  • Download a file wget style:
$ http --download example.org/file

  • Use named sessions to make certain aspects or the communication persistent between requests to the same host:
$ http --session=logged-in -a username:password httpbin.org/get API-Key:123
 
 $ http --session=logged-in httpbin.org/headers

  • Set a custom Host header to work around missing DNS records:
$ http localhost:8000 Host:example.com


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