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HTTPie Features
Expressive and intuitive syntax
Formatted and colorized terminal output
Built-in JSON support
Forms and file uploads
HTTPS, proxies, and authentication
Arbitrary request data
Custom headers
Persistent sessions
Wget-like downloads
Python 2.6, 2.7 and 3.x support
Linux, Mac OS X and Windows support
Plugins
Documentation
Test coverage
Install HTTPie on ubuntu
Open the terminal and run the following command
sudo apt-get install httpie
Using HTTPie
http [flags] [METHOD] URL [ITEM [ITEM]]
Positional arguments:
METHOD -- HTTP method to be used for the request (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE,PATCH, ...).
URL -- Protocol defaults to http:// if the URL does not include it.
items -- HTTP header (key:value), data field (key=value) or raw JSON field (field:=value).
HTTPie Examples
Custom HTTP method, HTTP headers and JSON data:
$ http PUT example.org X-API-Token:123 name=John
Submitting forms:
$ http -f POST example.org hello=World
See the request that is being sent using one of the output options:
$ http -v example.org
Upload a file using redirected input:
$ http example.org < file.json Download a file and save it via redirected output: $ http example.org/file > file
Download a file wget style:
$ http --download example.org/file
Use named sessions to make certain aspects or the communication persistent between requests to the same host:
$ http --session=logged-in -a username:password httpbin.org/get API-Key:123
$ http --session=logged-in httpbin.org/headers
For more examples check here