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httpie
cli
Python2012–2025
httpie / cli

cli

🥧 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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Where it is used

No documented product use was verified in the last source check.

What people are saying

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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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 2:59:58 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by year94 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2012-02-25 15:24:31 UTC to 2025-10-21 13:19:10 UTC.

01020302012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 14 mentions; 2 submissions, 12 comments20122013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 1 submissions, 5 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 26 mentions; 10 submissions, 16 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 15 mentions; 4 submissions, 11 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 2 submissions, 3 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 2 submissions, 1 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 2 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 8 mentions; 1 submissions, 7 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 0 submissions, 5 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2025

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20122012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC14212
20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC615
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC261016
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC15411
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC523
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC321
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC220
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC817
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC505
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202

What Hacker News says

26 sources
tracker1·Oct 20, 2015
Already made a PR for it... however, automated tools should really include a URL for the tool as part of the User Agent string. AGENT/##.## (url) where `AGENT` is the identifier for the user agent, ##.## is the major/minor version, and url is the url for the tool/project/bot. In this case, one minor tweak might be... HTTPie/%s (https://github.com/jkbrzt/httpie) It's a minor nit, but trying to find something based on "foo/version" alone isn't always easy enough when looking at your logs.
In Httpie: A CLI http client
newscracker·Oct 20, 2015
From the README.rst file at https://github.com/jkbrzt/httpie : HTTPie (pronounced aych-tee-tee-pie) is a command line HTTP client. The name, as written on the repository, is "HTTPie", and not "Httpie" like in the title of this post. H-T-T-Pie, which I'd relate to it being written in Python, where the file extension and several other names have "py" (pronounced as "pie") in some form.
In Httpie: A CLI http client
mittsh·Jun 9, 2015
HTTPie is a CLI client, and I don't think it would make sense for it to save the requests you make (as opposed to a GUI). Though, it has a nice persistence feature with sessions (https://github.com/jakubroztocil/httpie#sessions). It's the nice thing with GUIs (Paw, Postman...)! Paw saves all your work in ".paw" documents that you can share with your team on Dropbox or Git. You can have many documents, and organize your API calls. Disclaimer: I'm the founder of Paw.
In Paw: The ultimate REST client for Mac

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