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It would take me something extraordinary to move away from curl
by ovebepari 4y ago
It would take me something extraordinary to move away from curl
- hassy 4y agocurl is amazing! I love curl. This is not meant to replace it completely. Probe just makes those most common use-cases friendlier, like looking at headers, or inspecting JSON retuned by an API with syntax highlighting, or querying without needing to reach for jq etc.
- blacksmith_tb 4y agoSure, if you've got muscle memory for all the flags (plus it lets you reason about all the other programs that pipe stuff to curl). I personally find myself using httpie [1] at least as much. 1: https://httpie.io/ https://httpie.io/
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- ratorx 4y agoI think curlie is the middle ground and the best (IMO) in the space. A nicer CLI for interactive use and can use and output curl flags for scripting.
- jicea 4y agoAs a maintainer, I feel obligated to mention Hurl [1], a tool for testing HTTP with plain text and curl. It’s a wrapper around libcurl, in a single binary, with syntactic sugar for asserts. You can use it also like curl to give you an HTTP output. [1] https://hurl.dev https://hurl.dev
- hassy 4y agoI haven’t come across Hurl before. It looks cool!
- chrismarlow9 4y agoThe big win with curl is the growing adoption of "copy as curl" in browser dev tools as well as "example of API call in curl" for third party API documentation. I don't think I could move to anything else for that reason alone.
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- rgoulter 4y agoIn Emacs, I found the restclient plugin quite useful. https://github.com/pashky/restclient.el https://github.com/pashky/restclient.el I imagine other editors have similar plugins.
- throwawayboise 4y agoAwesome! This comment made reading this thread worthwhile.