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httpie
cli
Python2012–2025
httpie / cli

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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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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.

trashcan used a recommendation phrase. One indexed comment matches. This is a phrase match, not a verdict.

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Also in these discussions

Mentioned in the same Hacker News threads. That is not proof they are substitutes.

This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 10:02:05 AM 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

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guessmyname·Aug 14, 2016
I think this was re-posted a 100th time because the author [1] released version 0.9.6 [2] like three hours ago. And to save you guys a click here is the list of (significant?) changes. - Added Python 3 as a dependency for Homebrew installations to ensure some of the newer HTTP features work out of the box for macOS users (starting with HTTPie 0.9.4.). - Added the ability to unset a request header with Header:, and send an empty value with Header;. - Added --default-scheme <URL_SCHEME> to enable things like $ alias https='http --default-scheme=https. - Added -I as a shortcut for --ignore-stdin. - Added fish shell completion (located in extras/httpie-completion.fish in the Github repo). - Updated requests to 2.10.0 so that SOCKS support can be added via pip install requests[socks]. - Changed the default JSON Accept header from application/j
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son to application/json, /. - Changed the pre-processing of request HTTP headers so that any leading and trailing whitespace is removed. And please Mr. Roztočil stop posting your project here so frequently, there is a limited number of links in this website that get to the front page, and it is annoying to see duplicated content so often. If there is people unaware of your project by now, it is probably people that are not involved in anything related with HTTP debugging, and people that already know the project can easily go to GitHub and see the changelog by themselves, I certainly didn't understand why was this posted again after I started looking for a reason, then found that version 0.9.6 was released :-( EDIT: Maybe I should blame the +40 accounts who upvoted this. EDIT2: Re-organized paragraphs to display the changelog before my (irrelevant?) rant about the duplicated submission. [1] https://twitter.com/jkbrzt [2] https://github.com/jkbrzt/httpie/releases/tag/0.9.6
In HTTPie 0.9.6
paulannesley·Jun 8, 2016
I like using HTTPie for many things, however the current release does a bad job of rendering XML, e.g. it'll display `<sitemapindex xmlns="http://…">` as `<ns0:sitemapindex xmlns:ns0="http://…">`. But — I just checked and found the not-yet-released v1.0.0 fixes this by removing the XML formatter completely as discussed in https://github.com/jkbrzt/httpie/issues/443 so my gripe is sorted. I still tend to go back to cURL when I want to see exactly what's been received, and use httpie for when I know the response headers and body serialization are fine and I want to see the data therein.
In HTTPie: a CLI, cURL-like tool for humans

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