HTTPie for
Terminal

Designed for APIs

We built HTTPIe from the ground up for painless testing and debugging of APIs, HTTP servers, and web services.

• Expressive and intuitive syntax
• First-class JSON support
• Colorized and formatted terminal output
• Sensible defaults for the API era
• Persistent sessions
• Forms and file uploads
• HTTPS, proxies, and authentication support
• Support for arbitrary request data and headers
• wget-like download mode
• Extensions API for authentication, etc.
• All that & more in two simple http + https commands

HTTPie installs http and https:

Hello World:

$ https httpie.io/hello

Custom HTTP method, HTTP headers and JSON data:

$ http PUT pie.dev/put X-API-Token:123 name=John

Submitting forms:

$ http -f POST pie.dev/post hello=World

See the request that is being sent using one of the output options:

$ http -v pie.dev/get

Build and print a request without sending it using offline mode:

$ http --offline pie.dev/post hello=offline

Use Github API to post a comment on an issue with authentication:

$ http -a USERNAME POST https://api.github.com/repos/httpie/cli/issues/83/comments body=HTTPie is awesome! :heart:

Upload a file using redirected input:

$ http pie.dev/post < files/data.json

Download a file and save it via redirected output:

$ http pie.dev/image/png > image.png

Download a file wget style:

$ http --download pie.dev/image/png

Use named sessions to make certain aspects of the communication persistent between requests to the same host:

$ http --session=logged-in -a username:password pie.dev/get API-Key:123

$ http --session=logged-in pie.dev/headers

Set a custom Host header to work around missing DNS records:

$ http localhost:8000 Host:example.com

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