HTTPie is a free and open source modern command-line HTTP client for Linux, MacOS and Windows. You can use this tool to test and debugging the APIs, HTTP servers, and web services. It comes with JSON, HTTPS, proxies, and authentication support. Some other important feature are syntax highlighting, persistent sessions and extensions support. You can also do Forms and file uploads and Wget like file downloads. It is based on python and released under BSD 3-Clause License.
Install HTTPie on Ubuntu
You can install HTTPie via your terminal application. Open your terminal app (ctrl+alt+t) run below commands one by one.
sudo apt update
Enter your Ubuntu user password i needed.
sudo apt install httpie
You can verify the installation by below command
http --version
You can also install it via pip. If you don’t have pip on your system, then follow below link.
sudo pip install --upgrade pip setuptools
sudo pip install --upgrade httpie
Request URL using HTTPie
http connectwww.com
Download file using HTTPie
http --download https://downloads.vivaldi.com/stable/vivaldi-stable_3.4.2066.106-1_amd64.deb
For the complete usage details run this command.
http -h
