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24 alternatives to HTTPie CLI
Command line HTTP client, a user-friendly cURL replacement
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. HTTPie CLI launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Powerful CLI HTTP and API testing client for the API era.
2022 · httpie.io · 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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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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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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2019 · patchbay.pub · its alternatives →
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HTML Pub▲393Turn AI-generated HTML into a live URL via MCP/API
Mar 2026 · htmlpub.com · its alternatives →
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The Friendly DNS Client
2024 · doggo.mrkaran.dev · its alternatives →
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First HTTP programming language
2025 · httl.dev · its alternatives →
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Making APIs simple and intuitive for makers around the world
2021 · httpie.io · its alternatives →
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Beautiful, cross-platform & open-source tools for debugging, testing and building with HTTP(S), on Windows, Linux & Mac.
2019 · httptoolkit.tech · 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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Pinggy▲282Public URLs for localhost without downloading any binary
2024 · pinggy.io · its alternatives →
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My simple Swiss Army knife for http/https troubleshooting and profiling. - trimstray/htrace.sh
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I needed to remote control a program (and read it’s output) while that tool should still be fully interactive for the user. Obviously there are things like tmux and more but they emulate an entire terminal. This is simpler in that it just sets up a pty and basic pipes or files to send stuff in and read from it.
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A DNS client in Go that supports Google DNS over HTTPS - pforemski/dingo
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hiya HN! Just released Artillery Probe - a Swiss army knife for testing HTTP from the CLI. Think mini-curl with better UX for common use-cases, plus a couple of extra features. Would love for you to try it and give some feedback! https://www.artillery.io/blog/swiss-army-knife-for-http-testing and: npm install artillery@latest What does it do? - First of all, it's a HTTP client! It does all the usual stuff you'd expect from a HTTP client... HTTP methods, request bodies, custom headers, forms, Basic Auth etc. - Got some JSON or XML back? It'll pretty-print it, and syntax…
2022 · its alternatives →
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Tornado HTTP/2 Client. Contribute to vladmunteanu/th2c development by creating an account on GitHub.
2018 · github.com · 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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