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cle-b / httpdbg

httpdbg

A tool for Python developers to easily debug the HTTP(S) client and server requests in a Python program.

4Distinct people
6Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
908GitHub stars
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What it is

A tool for Python developers to easily debug the HTTP(S) client and server requests in a Python program.

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Where it is used

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 2:04:58 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by month6 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2024-09-25 19:18:12 UTC to 2025-11-11 14:39:58 UTC.

01232024-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 commentsSep 20242024-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsApr 20252025-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsNov 2025

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Sep 20242024-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-10-01 00:00:00 UTC312
Oct 20242024-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20242024-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20242024-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
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Feb 20252025-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20252025-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20252025-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-05-01 00:00:00 UTC110
May 20252025-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-06-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Jun 20252025-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20252025-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20252025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 20252025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20252025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20252025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC110

What Hacker News says

6 sources
cle-b·Nov 11, 2025Submission

Show HN: Pytest-httpdbg – a simple way to include HTTP traces in Allure reports

Hi HN, I recently updated my pytest plugin based on httpdbg to include the HTTP traces directly in the Allure reports. As with httpdbg, the idea is to have nothing more to do than to add an argument to your command line: --httpdbg-allure. For example: pytest examples/pytest_demo.py --alluredir=./allure-results --httpdbg-allure For each test, all HTTP requests will be recorded and saved in the Allure report under a step named httpdbg. You can check the README in the repository to see how it looks: https://github.com/cle-b/pytest-httpdbg?tab=readme-ov-file#c... (the compact mode is quite simple, but the full mode is identical to the httpdbg UI). I hope this will be helpful for some of you :) Any feedback is welcome. If you enjoy using httpdbg, don’t hesitate to check out the Git repository to discover new features — and give it a star to h
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3 points · Open discussion
cle-b·Apr 9, 2025Submission

Show HN: See what your Python app sends and receives over HTTP

Hi, A few months ago, I shared a tool I built for personal use to easily trace HTTP client requests in any Python app. It links requests to the corresponding Python code and comes with a nice UI. By easily, I mean: no external dependencies, no setup, no superuser rights, and no code modifications — just do "pip install httpdbg" and then launch your code using the "pyhttpdbg" command. That’s it. I received a lot of positive feedback — not just here, but also on social media, in podcasts, and beyond. So, thank you! Since I last introduced httpdbg, I’ve made many improvements — based on both my own needs and suggestions from users. There’s now better support for pytest, unittest, and various UI enhancements to make it more adaptable to different use cases. I’m sharing it with you again because I’ve finally reached what I consider to be versi
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on 1.0.0, thanks to a major new feature: * The ability to trace incoming HTTP requests. This feature has been available for about a month now, and I’d love to hear your feedback. Currently, there's advanced support for Flask and FastAPI, but it can also trace requests received by other HTTP servers. This new feature started more as a personal challenge than a necessity, but if it turns out to be useful for anyone, I’ll be genuinely happy. Hope you enjoy discovering (and using ) httpdbg! cle github: https://github.com/cle-b/httpdbg docs: https://httpdbg.readthedocs.io example of HTTP server traces: https://httpdbg.readthedocs.io/en/latest/pyhttpdbg/#endpoint first show hn post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41650905
6 points · Open discussion
Went spelunking through the source. I think you absolutely could! There's actually not a whole lot I found that's really http-library specific. It uses the traceback module in a decorator that ends up being manually wrapped around all of the functions of the specific libraries the author cared about. https://github.com/cle-b/httpdbg/blob/main/httpdbg/hooks Should be easy enough to extend this to other libraries. Super cool tool thanks for sharing @dmurray!
In Show HN: Httpdbg – A tool to trace the HTTP requests sent by your Python code
cle-b·Sep 25, 2024Submission

Show HN: Httpdbg – A tool to trace the HTTP requests sent by your Python code

Hi, I created httpdbg, a tool for Python developers to easily debug HTTP(S) client requests in Python programs. I developed it because I needed a tool that could help me trace the HTTP requests sent by my tests back to the corresponding methods in our API client. The goal of this tool is to simplify the debugging process, so I designed it to be as simple as possible. It requires no external dependencies, no setup, no superuser privileges, and no code modifications. I'm sharing it with you today because I use it regularly, and it seems like others have found it useful too—so it might be helpful for you as well. Hope you will like it. cle Source: https://github.com/cle-b/httpdbg Documentation: https://httpdbg.readthedocs.io/ A blog post on a use case: https://medium.com/@cle-b/trace-all-your-http-requests-in-py...
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