10 alternatives to httpie/cli

httpie/cli — 🥧 HTTPie CLI — modern, user-friendly command-line HTTP client for the API era. JSON support, colors, sessions, downloads, plugins & more. (38,711 stars, BSD-3-Clause, integration).

These are the closest projects in the JustClaw-It index that we serve licence-cleared code from, ranked by relevance and by our code-quality score (1–10, the mean over each repo's graded components: completeness, code quality, deployability, reusability, strategic value). JustClaw-It also serves 68 licence-cleared components from httpie/cli itself.

The alternatives in detail

• urllib3/urllib3
  urllib3 is a user-friendly HTTP client library for Python
  score 7.7/10 · MIT permissive · 4,081 stars · 41 components · search them
• gavv/httpexpect
  End-to-end HTTP and REST API testing for Go.
  score 7.0/10 · MIT permissive · 2,722 stars · 41 components · search them
• twigly/rust-http-cli
  rh is a user-friendly command-line tool to request HTTP APis
  score 4.5/10 · MIT permissive · 80 stars · 51 components · search them
• jonaslu/ain
  A HTTP API client for the terminal
  score 5.8/10 · MIT permissive · 622 stars · 26 components · search them
• ducaale/xh
  Friendly and fast tool for sending HTTP requests
  score 6.7/10 · MIT permissive · 8,169 stars · 25 components · search them
• kylebebak/requester
  Powerful, modern HTTP/REST client built on top of the Requests library
  score 7.3/10 · MIT permissive · 303 stars · 232 components · search them
• hoppscotch/hoppscotch
  Open-Source API Development Ecosystem • https://hoppscotch.io • Offline, On-Prem & Cloud • Web, Desktop & CLI • Open-Source Alternative to Postman, Insomnia
  score 7.4/10 · MIT permissive · 80,673 stars · 1,222 components · search them · alternatives
• seanmonstar/reqwest
  An easy and powerful Rust HTTP Client
  score 4.8/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 11,900 stars · 38 components · search them
• darrenburns/posting
  The modern API client that lives in your terminal.
  score 7.0/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 12,539 stars · 180 components · search them
• rs/curlie
  The power of curl, the ease of use of httpie.
  score 5.7/10 · MIT permissive · 3,731 stars · 10 components · search them

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