HTTPie - HTTP for Humans

• HTTPie - Command Line HTTP Client.
• Also known for cURL and wget command Alternative.
• HTTPie goal is to make CLI interaction with web services as human-friendly as possible.

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

Install HTTPie

Universal Installation

# Make sure we have an up-to-date version of pip and setuptools:
$ pip install --upgrade pip setuptools
$ pip install --upgrade httpie

Install on Debian Based Linux Distribution such as Debian/Ubuntu

$ sudo apt-get install httpie

Install on RPM Based Distribution such as REDHAT/CentOS

$ yum install httpie

Examples of HTTPie

• Use Github API to post a comment on Github issue with authentication

$ http -a USERNAME POST https://api.github.com/repos/jkbrzt/httpie/issues/83/comments body='HTTPie is awesome!'

• Upload file

$ http example.org < file.json

• Download file

$ http example.org/file > file

# wget style
$ http --download example.org/file

More Information

• To get more detailed Information about HTTPie, Check http://httpie.org website.

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