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Wednesday 19 February 2014

HTTPie

HTTPie 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 responses. HTTPie can be used for testing, debugging, and generally interacting with HTTP servers.
HTTPie compared to cURL
HTTPie is written in Python, and under the hood it uses the excellent Requests and Pygments libraries.
Table of Contents

Main 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
  • Documentation
  • Test coverage

Installation

The latest stable version of HTTPie can always be installed or updated to via pip (prefered) or easy_install:
$ pip install --upgrade httpie
Alternatively:
$ easy_install httpie
Or, you can install the development version directly from GitHub:
Build Status of the master branch
$ pip install --upgrade https://github.com/jkbr/httpie/tarball/master
There are also packages available for Ubuntu, Debian, and possibly other Linux distributions as well. However, there may be a significant delay between official HTTPie releases and package updates.

Usage

Hello World:
$ http httpie.org
Synopsis:
$ http [flags] [METHOD] URL [ITEM [ITEM]]
See also http --help.

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/jkbr/httpie/issues/83/comments body='HTTPie is awesome!'
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

What follows is a detailed documentation. It covers the command syntax, advanced usage, and also features additional examples.

from  https://github.com/jkbr/httpie