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24 alternatives to A Fast HTTP Request CLI Powered by HTTL
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A Fast HTTP Request CLI is a command-line tool for developers who need to make HTTP requests quickly and efficiently. Built on HTTL technology, it enables users to test APIs, debug web services, and perform HTTP… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Develop APIs fast + automatically detect endpoints
2025 · fastrequest.apidog.com · its alternatives →
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Hurl, run and test HTTP requests with plain text and curl. Hurl can run fast automated integration tests.
2021 · hurl.dev · its alternatives →
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Friendly and fast tool for sending HTTP requests. Contribute to ducaale/xh development by creating an account on GitHub.
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Kane CLI▲445Natural language browser & mobile app tests from terminal
Aug 2026 · testmuai.com · its alternatives →
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speed-test-cli▲315Test your download speed using SpeedTest on the command-line
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I find myself reaching for tools like it-tools.tech or other random sites every now and then during development or debugging. So, I built a toolkit with a sane and simple CLI interface for most of those tools. For the curious and lazy, at the moment, ut has tools for, - Encoding: base64 (encode, decode), url (encode, decode) - Hashing: md5, sha1, sha224, sha256, sha384, sha512 - Data Generation: uuid (v1, v3, v4, v5), token, lorem, random - Text Processing: case (lower, upper, camel, title, constant, header, sentence, snake), pretty-print, diff - Development Tools: calc, json…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2012 · zachwill.github.com · its alternatives →
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HTTP client/libcurl TUI front end in Rust, with request + key storage - PThorpe92/CuTE
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2021 · hurlit.com · its alternatives →
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2020 · npmjs.com · its alternatives →
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A few months ago, I benchmarked FastAPI on an i9 MacBook Pro. I couldn't believe my eyes. A primary REST endpoint to `sum` two integers took 6 milliseconds to evaluate. It is okay if you are targeting a server in another city, but it should be less when your client and server apps are running on the same machine. FastAPI would have bottleneck-ed the inference of our lightweight UForm neural networks recently trending on HN under the title "Beating OpenAI CLIP with 100x less data and compute". (Thank you all for the kind words!) So I wrote another library. It has been a while since I have…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I just had the best time learning about the REWE (German supermarket chain) API, how they use mTLS and what the workflows are. Also `mitmproxy2swagger`[1] is a great tool to create OpenAPI spec automatically. And then 2026 feels like the perfect time writing Haskell. The code is handwritten, but whenever I got stuck with the build system or was just not getting the types right, I could fall back to ask AI to unblock me. It was never that smooth before. Finally the best side projects are the ones you actually use and this one will be used for all my future grocery shopping.…
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi, this is Mish and Sebastian. We are working on Step CI - a fully automated API testing platform for developers. Step CI works programming-language independent and for different API paradigms (REST, GraphQL, XML). Our CLI and test runner are available on GitHub (https://github.com/stepci) under the MPLv2 license. Since our last launch, Step CI is now able to generate automated tests for your API based on your OpenAPI (Swagger) spec. This saves you a lot of time as you never have to write and maintain your tests again! We would like to invite you to try our tool and give us…
2022 · stepci.com · its alternatives →
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Rich-cli is a command line toolbox for fancy output in the terminal - Textualize/rich-cli
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A CLI development tool for WebSocket APIs. Contribute to eliihen/wsta development by creating an account on GitHub.
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Lightweight time management CLI tool . Contribute to liviu-/ding development by creating an account on GitHub.
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! Smooth CLI (https://www.smooth.sh) is a browser that agents like Claude Code can use to navigate the web reliably, quickly, and affordably. It lets agents specify tasks using natural language, hiding UI complexity, and allowing them to focus on higher-level intents to carry out complex web tasks. It can also use your IP address while running browsers in the cloud, which helps a lot with roadblocks like captchas (https://docs.smooth.sh/features/use-my-ip). Here’s a demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62jthcU705k Docs start at…
Feb 2026 · docs.smooth.sh · its alternatives →
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Build high quality Android apps 3x faster using any agent
Apr 2026 · android-developers.googleblog.com · its alternatives →
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