HTTPIe, a command line HTTP client

Posted December 8th, 2013 • 1 min read

Stumbled upon HTTPie, a command line HTTP client. It's pretty awesome. Basically it's Curl on steroids, as it has an easy interface and syntax highlighted output.

Here's an example of a simple GET request to the Bacon Ipsum JSON service:

Of course you can do actual useful stuff as well, such as POST-ing, Authentication, Cookies, Custom Headers, etc.

As the repo says, the main features are:

• 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
• Documentation
• Test coverage

I haven't played with it much yet, but so far it seems like a rather useful little tool, worth checking out.

You can get it here