HTTPie: cURL for humans

HTTPie is a CLI frontend for python-requests.

Installation

pip install httpie

Usage

httpie [flags] METHOD [header:value data-field-name=value]* URL

The default request Content-Type in application/json and data fields are automatically serialized as a JSON Object:

httpie PATCH  name=John api.example.com/person/1

That will issue the following request:

PATCH /person/1 HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: HTTPie/0.1
X-API-Token: 123
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8

{"name": "John"}

The data to be sent can also be passed via stdin:

httpie PUT X-API-Token:123 api.example.com/person/1 < person.json

The flags mirror many of the arguments you would use with requests.request. See httpie -h for more details.

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