HTTPie CLI Client

HTTPie is a command-line HTTP client designed to make CLI interaction with web services as human-friendly as possible, created by Jakub Roztocil in 2012, providing an intuitive syntax with default JSON formatting, syntax-highlighted output, intuitive command structure, and HTTPS support, serving as a modern alternative to curl and wget for API testing and debugging, adopted by over thirty thousand GitHub stars and used by developers at Google, Stripe, and Twitter for API interaction. The command syntax uses a natural HTTP method keyword at the start, with the URL following, and request items specified as header:value, query-param==value, data-field=value, and raw JSON strings, with automatic JSON serialization for structured data fields and automatic content-type detection, making complex API requests readable and writable without memorizing flags. The output formatting provides syntax-highlighted JSON responses with proper indentation and color coding, formatted headers with alignment, response timing information, and optional download progress for binary responses, with the ability to pipe output to other tools or save responses to files. The session feature persists cookies, authentication headers, and default options between requests through named session files, enabling stateful API interactions like authenticated workflows without re-specifying credentials on each request. The plugin and extension system. The Python ecosystem integration. Designed for API developers and testers.