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hurl

Hurl, run and test HTTP requests with plain text.

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Hurl, run and test HTTP requests with plain text.

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Observed mentions: 2021-10-05 13:27:15 UTC to 2025-06-20 15:35:21 UTC.

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nikeee·Nov 28, 2022
> How does the "imports" feature supposed to work and how does it help modelling more complex workflows? If hurl had something like an import feature, one could re-use HTTP requests. For example, one could create a file that logs into the service and use it in all other tests. It doesn't support that, so the only option you have is to re-write the login in every test _or_ build a script that outputs that. There is an open issue for that: https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource/hurl/issues/115
In KATT (Klarna API Testing Tool) Is an HTTP-Based API Testing Tool for Erlang
jicea·Oct 10, 2022
Really cool, with already a lot of features! Given the raise of CI/CD, I really think these kind of tools (CLI tests on HTTP requests), based on a simple format, will be really important. We've build Hurl (https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource/hurl), that shares a lot of similarities with Step CI (plain text instead of yaml, captures, jsonpath, xpath etc...). I will shamelessly take inspiration for some new features (like GraphQL for instance)!
In Show HN: We built a tool that automatically generates API tests
jicea·Sep 21, 2022Submission

Show HN: Hurl, test APIs with plain text and libcurl

Hi, We're happy to release a new version of Hurl [1]. Hurl is a command line tool powered by curl, that runs HTTP requests defined in a simple plain text format: # Get home: GET https://example.org HTTP/1.1 200 [Captures] csrf_token: xpath "string(//meta[@name='_csrf_token']/@content)" # Do login! POST https://example.org/login?user=toto&password=1234 X-CSRF-TOKEN: HTTP/1.1 302 Hurl can be used to get data like curl, or as an integration testing tool for JSON/XML HTTP apis / HTML content. Requests can be chained, and one can add asserts on response headers, cookies and body. For instance: GET https://example.org/order screencapability: low HTTP/1.1 200 [Asserts] jsonpath "$.validated" == true jsonpath "$.userInfo.lastName" == "Herbert" jsonpath "$.hasDevice" == false jsonpath "$.links" count == 1
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2 jsonpath "$.order" matches /^order-\d{8}$/ You can see more samples in the documentation [2]. We've designed Hurl to be easily integrated in CI/CD (GitHub, GitLab), and its text format can be used as a documentation, commited in a repo etc... It's a single binary written in Rust, that is powered by libcurl under the hood, for a fast CLI tool for both devops and developers. In this new version, we've added the following improvements: - verbose output: add more color to Hurl --verbose output, and also added --very-verbose option to output request and response bodies - request options: command-line options such as --location (follow HTTP redirection), --verbose, --insecure etc... can now be applied to a particular request with an [Options] sections - and more, see here for a quick tout of 1.7.0 [3] [1] https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource/hurl [2] https://hurl.dev/docs/samples.html [3] https://hurl.dev/blog/2022/09/15/announcing-hurl-1.7.0.html Previous Show HN <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28758226> and <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25655737>
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jicea·Mar 17, 2022
It’s on the documentation home [1] and on the GitHub README [2]: Why Hurl? - Text Format: for both devops and developers - Fast CLI: a command line for local dev and continuous integration - Single Binary: easy to install, with no runtime required It’s maybe too succinct, but, at least, it’s here! We have also a more detail view on our FAQ [3] [1] https://hurl.dev/#why-hurl [2] https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource/hurl#why-hurl [3] https://hurl.dev/docs/frequently-asked-questions.html#yet-an...
In The Asymmetry of Open Source
jicea·Mar 17, 2022
> Users need open source projects, but open source projects do not need users. I get what’s the author is trying to say, but, as a maintainer of a small, free, open source project [1], I’m really happy to get more users: - having more users helps to keep motivation - it helps also with the credibility: we work in a large telco, and popularity can justify us working on it on our work hours - we get more feedbacks, more bug reports and so we improve our tools. As we use it intensively, it’s benefit for us When your project reach a certain level of popularity, maybe you don’t « need users » any more but I think the majority of GitHub projets are small, relatively obscure, and can benefit from feedbacks, usage etc… [1] https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource/hurl
In The Asymmetry of Open Source
jicea·Jan 20, 2022
Shameless plug, we've built hurl [1] to add some syntactic sugar over curl, with plain text. For example, you can write a text file post.hurl: POST https://api.ctl.io/v2/authentication/login { "username": "YOUR.USERNAME", "password": "YOUR.PASSWORD" } and it will send the same POST request with a json body: hurl post.hurl You can add asserts on the response too: POST https://api.ctl.io/v2/authentication/login { "username": "YOUR.USERNAME", "password": "YOUR.PASSWORD" } HTTP/1.0 200 [Asserts] jsonpath "$.status" == "LOGGED" Under the hood, we use libcurl and a Rust binding. The HTTP engine is curl because curl is awesome! [1] https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource/hurl
In The time might come when we add some JSON specific command line options

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