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Dev tools · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to curlx

If cURL and Postman had a baby 👶

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. curlx launched in 2019; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Curlerâ–²123

    Dead Simple Free Uptime Monitoring

    2019 · its alternatives →

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    Takes a curl command and explains DNS/TLS/HTTP details step-by-step - akgitrepos/explain-my-curl

    Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    EC2 Price API - API To check ec2 prices

    2020 · ec2.shop · its alternatives →

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    curl-impersonate: A special build of curl that can impersonate Chrome & Firefox - lwthiker/curl-impersonate

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Embed Curlâ–²62

    Embeddable curl commands for your web site, blog or API docs

    2013 · 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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    Hey HN, I built uncurl.dev to scratch my own itch: I kept getting curl commands in API docs, bug reports, or Slack messages and wanted a quick way to visualize, run, and debug them without firing up Postman or writing code to dissect them. It was also sometimes painful to create a test page specifically for non-tech users to consume an API. I originally vibe-coded this over a weekend just to make it easier for myself to debug API requests shared as curl commands. It slowly grew into something I found surprisingly useful in my workflow, so I decided to clean it up and share it. uncurl.dev…

    2025 · uncurl.dev · its alternatives →

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    Hey all, As a CEO of a growing startup I don't get to code as often as I like and when I do, I try not to annoy my team with my terrible code :) So to scratch the itch, I've built some of side projects related to what our company does. The latest is embedcurl.com I see a lot of API docs and blogs posting curl commands that are really hard to read and I figured I could make them easier to read and add some niceties like easier copy/paste, tooltips on flags, etc. They also gracefully degrade if javascript isn't enabled back to a element. The parsing is done in Python with shlex and…

    2013 · its alternatives →

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    Curl2Urlâ–²12

    2024 · curl2url.com · its alternatives →

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    CurlerRooâ–²7

    The Intuitive Free Text-Based REST Client

    2024 · curlerroo.com · its alternatives →

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    extensive guide for all things curl

    2021 · everything.curl.dev · its alternatives →

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    HTTP Promptâ–²128

    An interactive command-line HTTP client

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    🥧 HTTPie CLI — modern, user-friendly command-line HTTP client for the API era. JSON support, colors, sessions, downloads, plugins & more. - httpie/cli

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    curlmin is a CLI tool that minimizes curl commands by removing unnecessary headers, cookies, and query parameters while ensuring the response remains the same. This is especially handy when copying a network request "as cURL" in Chrome DevTools' Network panel (Right-click page > Inspect > Network > Right-click request > Copy > Copy as cURL). I use Chrome's "Copy as cURL" _a lot_ (so much, in fact, that I wrote https://github.com/noperator/sol partially just to help me auto-format long curl commands). I often have this problem where the copied curl command contains a bunch…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    curl.ioâ–²132

    Share your files from your Terminal / SSH

    2014 · curl.io · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! I just released version 1.0 of Posting, an open source terminal application I've been working on which you might find useful if you work with, test, or develop HTTP APIs! Posting (https://github.com/darrenburns/posting) is an HTTP client, not unlike Postman and Insomnia. However, as a TUI application, it works over SSH and enables efficient keyboard-centric workflows. Your requests are stored locally in simple readable YAML files, meaning they're easy to read and version control. Some other features include: - "Jump mode" navigation - Environments/variables…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    curl for GraphQL with autocomplete, subscriptions and GraphiQL. Also a dead-simple universal javascript GraphQL client. - hasura/graphqurl

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Postmanâ–²182

    Postman is a powerful HTTP client to test REST API

    2014 · postman.com · its alternatives →

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    Curl It!â–²9

    Free Website Monitoring Tool for macOS users

    2025 · support.soulnodes.cloud · its alternatives →

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    tap curl in your editor before it gets to sh it. Contribute to awalgarg/curl-tap-sh development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Smokexâ–²70

    Schedule automatic HTTP requests and create smoke tests

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    protoCURL is cURL for Protobuf: The command-line tool for interacting with Protobuf over HTTP REST endpoints using human-readable text formats - qaware/protocurl

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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