Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Hurl.it is back – Make HTTP Requests
Hurl.it is a web tool that lets users make HTTP requests directly from their browser. It's designed for developers and anyone who needs to test APIs or inspect web requests without using command-line tools. The service… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Hurl.it is back – Make HTTP Requests launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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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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hurl▲3cli that runs HTTP requests defined in a simple text format
2021 · hurl.dev · 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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First HTTP programming language
2025 · httl.dev · its alternatives →
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Hype 3.0▲263Create beautiful HTML5 web content with no coding required
2015 · tumult.com · 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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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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A self-hosted API that takes a URL and returns a file with browser screenshots. - goodreasonai/ScrapeServ
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Sharing an internal tool that accelerated my development work 10-fold, especially with API debugging. Thought fellow developers here might find it useful. As a developer, I often have trouble reproducing errors at the client end. https://intercept.rest lets me debug and monitor API requests and responses. It is similar to the Network tab in Chrome Developer Tools but works for any API: mobile apps, webhooks, frontend etc. After I shared it with a close circle of friends, they found it incredibly useful and even found new use cases, I never imagined. Been a long time lurker here and…
2018 · its alternatives →
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Hi, I created httpdbg, a tool for Python developers to easily debug HTTP(S) client requests in Python programs. I developed it because I needed a tool that could help me trace the HTTP requests sent by my tests back to the corresponding methods in our API client. The goal of this tool is to simplify the debugging process, so I designed it to be as simple as possible. It requires no external dependencies, no setup, no superuser privileges, and no code modifications. I'm sharing it with you today because I use it regularly, and it seems like others have found it useful too—so it might be…
2024 · 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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RequestBin.com▲127A new, improved request bin to inspect HTTP events
2019 · pipedream.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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I wrote this tool during an internship at Narf Industries in 2023. It's a REPL that allows for quickly developing, testing, and fuzzing for HTTP request smuggling attack payloads. I started the internship having never worked with web servers, and have now found over 100 HTTP implementation bugs. I attribute this mostly to the ease of experimentation in the Garden. REPL-oriented fuzzing is just a really good interface for finding parsing bugs. It's pretty neat to able to run a differential fuzzer, categorize and display all the discovered discrepancies, then let a human pick through them and…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey folks, I am finally posting a Show HN post for a project I have been working on for several months now, and it's in a state where I already get a lot of value myself, so I am happy to share broadly. The pitch line is: "Skybear.NET is a managed platform automating Synthetic HTTP API testing." At the moment, the main source file format supported for your API tests are Hurl.dev files [1]. Hurl is a CLI tool wrapping `curl` and it's really awesome. At least check that out :) I am not affiliated directly with the Hurl CLI tool, and the platform I am building provides full Hurl compatibility.…
2024 · skybear.net · its alternatives →
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2017 · lambdacult.com · its alternatives →
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gURL▲7Go fast. Go simple. A curl alternative built in Go.
2025 · gurl.theharsh.xyz · its alternatives →
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In the deep mists of time (circa 2012), I was playing with the Go standard library, and saw how easy it was to stand up a webserver that let you navigate a remote file system, and I thought it was pretty neat. I took a look at my shell history and a frequent pattern of commands was "cd, ls, cd, ls, ...". And I thought "I love my keyboard, but you know, point and click might be nice in this context." And then I thought, "It'd be even cooler if you could run commands there." Skip forward several years, a few earlier implementations, a name change, and now there's Hucksh(ell), a bash-like shell…
2023 · its alternatives →
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Hello HN community, I'm excited to share a new command-line tool I developed called purl, inspired by the simplicity of Perl one-liners for efficient text processing. Purl features include Perl-like regex that simplifies text manipulation, it's cross-platform so works equally well on macOS, Linux, etc., and it's quick and easy to install. The tool also supports simple commands such as -replace, -filter, and -exclude, and offers optional color output to enhance readability. Purl is a practical alternative to traditional tools like sed and grep, designed to address some of their common…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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