HTTPie for
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A simple yet powerful command-line HTTP and API testing client for the API era.

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Designed for APIs

We built HTTPIe from the ground up for painless testing and debugging of APIs, HTTP servers, and web services.

Expressive and intuitive syntax
First-class JSON support
Colorized and formatted terminal output
Sensible defaults for the API era
Persistent sessions
Forms and file uploads
HTTPS, proxies, and authentication support
Support for arbitrary request data and headers
wget-like download mode
Extensions API for authentication, etc.
All that & more in two simple http + https commands

Installation

HTTPie CLI can be installed on any OS.

$<tool>install httpie

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Getting started

HTTPie installs http and https:

Hello World:

$ https httpie.io/hello

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Custom HTTP method, HTTP headers and JSON data:

$ http PUT pie.dev/put X-API-Token:123 name=John

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Submitting forms:

$ http -f POST pie.dev/post hello=World

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See the request that is being sent using one of the output options:

$ http -v pie.dev/get

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Build and print a request without sending it using offline mode:

$ http --offline pie.dev/post hello=offline

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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:

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Upload a file using redirected input:

$ http pie.dev/post < files/data.json

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Download a file and save it via redirected output:

$ http pie.dev/image/png > image.png

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Download a file wget style:

$ http --download pie.dev/image/png

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Use named sessions to make certain aspects of the communication persistent between requests to the same host:

$ http --session=logged-in -a username:password pie.dev/get API-Key:123

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$ http --session=logged-in pie.dev/headers

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Set a custom Host header to work around missing DNS records:

$ http localhost:8000 Host:example.com

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