httpness

🌏 httpness 🌏

Simple AF CLI HTTP client

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Table of Contents

Table of Contents

about

Install

Usage

API

Contribute

License

About

This cli module is a simple HTTP client similar to httpie, but with a lot less functionality. It is build on top of node-fetch and uses prettyjson to provide nice formatting.

Install

$ npm install -g httpness

Or

$ yarn add global httpness

Usage

After the module has been installed globally, it can be called from the terminal:

$ httpness --url=https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/1

This will output:

It also supports other HTTP methods like POST:

$ httpness --url=https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts --method=POST --body={title: 'Hi', body: 'Friend', userId: 1}

This will output:

API

The following argument flags are supported:

Flag	Description	Default	Example
--url, -url, --u or -u	The URL to make request to. Required	-	--url=https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/1
--method, -method, --m or -m	The HTTP method to use.	GET	--method=POST
--body, -body, --b or -b	Body to send with request.	''	--body={title: 'Hi', body: 'Friend', userId: 1}
--headers, -headers, --h or -h	Headers to send with request.	{}	--headers={Content-Type: 'application/json; charset=utf-8'}
--credentials, -credentials, --c or -c	Credentials to send with request.	''	--credentials=same-origin

Contribute

Contributions are welcome. Please open up an issue or create PR if you would like to help out.

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License

Licensed under the MIT License.