8,100 stars · MIT · v0.26.2 (2026-07-26), confirmed by crates.io · Track this in Scout
Sends web requests from a terminal in short readable commands, and is the maintained way to keep the habit HTTPie invented.
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- httpie/cli
The project that invented this way of writing requests and still the better-known name, with more features and plugins, but its last code landed on 17 December 2024 and nothing on its page says so.
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Takes the other route to the same comfort: it is a thin front end over curl itself, so every curl feature is still there, but its own newest code is from 7 December 2025.
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Orange-OpenSource/hurlEdition 36 covered this: requests written in a plain text file with assertions, which is better for repeatable checks and worse for a quick look.
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