HTTP Prompt Documentation

HTTP Prompt is an interactive command-line HTTP client featuring autocomplete and syntax highlighting, built on HTTPie and prompt_toolkit.

See it in action:

Contents

• User Guide
  • Installation
  • Quickstart
  • Output Redirection
    • Saving and Loading Sessions
    • Saving HTTP Responses
  • Pipeline
  • Shell Substitution
  • Configuration
  • Persistent Context
  • ls, cd, and OpenAPI/Swagger Specification
• Contributor Guide
  • Forking
  • Working with virtualenv
  • Installing Dependent Packages
  • Installing Test Dependent Packages
  • Making Your Changes
    • Code Style
    • Adding Features
    • Python Compatibility
    • Documentation
  • Running Tests
    • Single Python Version
    • Multiple Python Versions
  • Code Review

Roadmap

• Support for advanced HTTPie syntax, e.g, field=@file.json
• Support for cURL command and raw format preview
• Improve autocomplete
• Python syntax evaluation
• HTTP/2 support

User Support

We’d love to hear more from our users! Please use the following channels for bug reports, feature requests, and questions:

• GitHub issues
• `Gitter chat room`_

Contributing

Are you a developer and interested in contributing to HTTP Prompt? See Contributor Guide.

Thanks

• HTTPie: for designing such a user-friendly HTTP CLI
• prompt_toolkit: for simplifying the work of building an interactive CLI
• Parsimonious: for the PEG parser used by this project
• pgcli: for the inspiration of this project
• Contributors: for improving this project