httpy-cli 1.1.0

Modern, user-friendly, programmable command-line HTTP client for the API.

Modern, user-friendly, programmable and filterable command-line HTTP client for the API

HTTPy is a command line HTTP client. Its purpose is to make duplicate web requests on a single line. httpy is designed for testing, debugging, and generally interacting with APIs and HTTP servers. The httpy command allows creating and sending arbitrary HTTP requests. They use simple and natural syntax and provide formatted and colored output. Under favour of its programmable structure, it can perform many tasks at the same time. For example, you can pull data for user IDs 0, 1, and 2 at the same time

Getting started

Installation instructions

pip install httpy-cli

Features

• Expressive and intuitive syntax

• Formatted and colorized terminal output

• Programmable requests

  • Multiple requests one line

  • Value incremented each time

  • Random number per request

  • Read each value from the lines in the file

  • Value per each request as a list of multiple values

• Built-in JSON support

• Arbitrary request data

• Custom headers

Structures

$ httpy <URL> <METHOD> <HEADERS,QUERIES,DATA> --exec <COMMAND>

Custom method, headers, queries and JSON data:

$ httpy httpbin.org/put PUT HeaderName:HeaderValue data=value query==value

Command

$ httpy httpbin.org/get --exec <KEY>:<OPERATION>:<MAX_RUN>

Examples

Basic Request:

$ httpy httpbin.org/get

Usage custom method, headers, queries and JSON data:

$ httpy httpbin.org/put PUT HeaderName:HeaderValue data=value query==value

Custom HTTP method, HTTP headers and JSON data:

$ httpy httpbin.org/post POST X-API-Token:123 name=John

Run 3 times:

$ httpy httpbin.org/get --exec i:++:3

Pass a value to URL:

$ httpy 'httpbin.org/get?value={i}' --exec i:VALUE

Pass a value to the URL by running it 2 times:

$ httpy 'httpbin.org/get?value={i}' --exec i:VALUE:2

Get 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 post one line and just show body:

$ httpy https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/{i} --exec i:++:6 -B

Pass a value to the Header and just show status:

$ httpy httpbin.org/get Authorization:{i} --exec i:token1,token2,token3 -S

Operation List

Operation	Description
++	Increment
--	Deincrement
rand(0,10)	Random number from 1 to 10
read(path/to/file)	Read from file
item1, item2	List
item	Text

Community & support

• Tweet httpy at @KanidagliV on Twitter.
• Use StackOverflow to ask questions and include a httpy tag.
• Create GitHub Issues for bug reports and feature requests.

Contributing

Have a look through existing Issues and Pull Requests that you could help with. If you'd like to request a feature or report a bug, please create a GitHub Issue using one of the templates provided.

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