JKjkbr·Dec 17, 2012
Congrats, Kenneth!
Any hints on how to solve these incompatibilities between HTTPie and Requests v1.0 appreciated: https://github.com/jkbr/httpie/issues/113.
In Requests, Python HTTP for Humans, reached v1.0httpie
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🥧 HTTPie CLI — modern, user-friendly command-line HTTP client for the API era. JSON support, colors, sessions, downloads, plugins & more.
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What it is
🥧 HTTPie CLI — modern, user-friendly command-line HTTP client for the API era. JSON support, colors, sessions, downloads, plugins & more.
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Slightly offtopic, but I highly recommend using httpie for command line http: https://github.com/jkbrzt/httpie No cheatsheeet needed, the syntax is a lot friendler.
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| 2012 | 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 14 | 2 | 12 |
| 2013 | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 6 | 1 | 5 |
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 26 | 10 | 16 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 15 | 4 | 11 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 2 | 3 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 8 | 1 | 7 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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14 sourceshttpie is a nice replacement for curl which, among other things, has built-in formatting so you can get pretty JSON / XML responses without giving up your ability to do things like displaying response headers:
https://github.com/jkbr/httpie
In Easy CLI JSON FormattingFantastic, there's also a grand tool called httpie that's a bit nicer than curl https://github.com/jkbr/httpie
In Uses for cURLThe GitHub page does a good job of highlighting all of the benefits HTTPie has if you're already familiar with cURL. But for me it's the design of the interface with syntax highlighting being the sugar on top.
See:
https://github.com/jkbr/httpie#interface-design ,
https://github.com/jkbr/httpie#redirected-input ,
https://github.com/jkbr/httpie#usage
In Uses for cURLI would strongly suggest HTTPie for the majority of these tasks: https://github.com/jkbr/httpie
In Uses for cURLPip is by no means exclusive to libraries. See https://github.com/jkbr/httpie for an example of a CLI app that's distributed through both pip and easy_install.
This guide might be helpful for you:
http://guide.python-distribute.org/creation.html
Also, nice work. I've used localtunnel up till now. You've definitely added more features than they have, so I'll be following this closely.
In The fast, reliable way to make localhost part of the WebThis looks really good, thanks.
Rather than pipe curl's output through stuff though, for the most part I use httpie [1]. It's a human-friendly curl wrapper.
[1] https://github.com/jkbr/httpie
In PJSON: pretty, colorful json output formatting for terminalHTTPie, an easy to use cURL replacement: https://github.com/jkbr/httpie
(disclaimer: I'm the author)
In Command line tools for the noviceAlso check out HTTPie: https://github.com/jkbr/httpie/ I much prefer it over curl.
$ http GET http://yourmom.ca/
In Command line tools every web dev needs to knowHTTPie[1] is better than both. ;)
1. https://github.com/jkbr/httpie
(I am in no way affiliated with this project. I'm just a happy user.)
In Distribution of colors in movie posters between 1914 and 2012> Hmm, that makes more sense. If it isn't already in the README or man page, it might be a worthy addition.
Good point, I'll add it to the README.
> Is there a way to have it construct the query string [...]
Not yet, but it's being already discussed here:
https://github.com/jkbr/httpie/issues/61
In HTTPie: A cURL-like tool for humansHTTPie: A cURL-like tool for humans
312 points · Open discussionIt's still not properly packaged up and also nowhere to be found on http://pypi.python.org resulting in no pip and no easy_install options. Pretty much every useful python package is distributed that way, see httpie for example [1].
[1] https://github.com/jkbr/httpie
In Simple - An Obtvse clone written in PythonHTTPie: cURL for humans (colorful CLI for python-requests)
6 points · Open discussion