Interactive command-line HTTP client featuring autocomplete and syntax highlighting
Interactive command-line HTTP client featuring autocomplete and syntax highlighting

Here is a great tool (written in python): an interactive command-line HTTP client featuring autocomplete and syntax highlighting called http-prompt

http-prompt

The installation is quite simple :

# pip install http-prompt
Collecting http-prompt
  Downloading http-prompt-0.2.0.tar.gz
Collecting click>=5.0 (from http-prompt)
  Downloading click-6.6.tar.gz (283kB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 286kB 4.3MB/s 
Collecting httpie>=0.9.0 (from http-prompt)
  Downloading httpie-0.9.3-py2.py3-none-any.whl (66kB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 71kB 13.5MB/s 
Collecting parsimonious>=0.6.2 (from http-prompt)
  Downloading parsimonious-0.6.2.tar.gz
Collecting prompt-toolkit>=0.60 (from http-prompt)
  Downloading prompt_toolkit-1.0.0-py2-none-any.whl (223kB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 225kB 5.7MB/s 
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): Pygments>=2.1.0 in /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages (from http-prompt)
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): six>=1.10.0 in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages (from http-prompt)
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): requests>=2.3.0 in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages (from httpie>=0.9.0->http-prompt)
Collecting wcwidth (from prompt-toolkit>=0.60->http-prompt)
  Downloading wcwidth-0.1.6-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Building wheels for collected packages: http-prompt, click, parsimonious
  Running setup.py bdist_wheel for http-prompt ... done
  Stored in directory: /root/.cache/pip/wheels/3f/46/eb/3b9c2305baf7880360d249d7cb626191f8b9b7cd970f4b9cb1
  Running setup.py bdist_wheel for click ... done
  Stored in directory: /root/.cache/pip/wheels/b0/6d/8c/cf5ca1146e48bc7914748bfb1dbf3a40a440b8b4f4f0d952dd
  Running setup.py bdist_wheel for parsimonious ... done
  Stored in directory: /root/.cache/pip/wheels/ac/7c/28/e49224e275a9c54284c10d987aa5a1c8db2b666f7ee823fc34
Successfully built http-prompt click parsimonious
Installing collected packages: click, httpie, parsimonious, wcwidth, prompt-toolkit, http-prompt
Successfully installed click-6.6 http-prompt-0.2.0 httpie-0.9.3 parsimonious-0.6.2 prompt-toolkit-1.0.0 wcwidth-0.1.6
You are using pip version 8.1.1, however version 8.1.2 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install --upgrade pip' command.

Ok… pip is not up-to-date. Let’s update it:

# pip install --upgrade pip
Collecting pip
  Downloading pip-8.1.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl (1.2MB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 1.2MB 983kB/s 
Installing collected packages: pip
  Found existing installation: pip 8.1.1
    Not uninstalling pip at /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages, outside environment /usr
Successfully installed pip-8.1.2

More information here : https://github.com/eliangcs/http-prompt

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