cURL to add native JSON support

• libcurl

  97 24,960 9.9 C

  A command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTMPS, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMTPS, TELNET and TFTP. libcurl offers a myriad of powerful features

  

  The --jp (json part) command line option, described at https://github.com/curl/curl/wiki/JSON, has "anti-pattern" written all over it to me. Why introduce some specific, curl-only wonky-ish version of JSON? Is this any easier to remember than normal JSON? I mean, right now, I use cURL all the time with JSON posts, just doing something like

  -d '{ "foo": "bar", "zed": "yow" }'

  The proposed --jp flag seems worse to me in every way.

  (Note I do like the --json as just syntactic sugar for -H "Accept: application/json" -d )

• ht

  15 2,891 9.4 Rust

  Friendly and fast tool for sending HTTP requests

  I have recently been trying a port of HTTPie in Rust, xh [0] (which is needlessly hard to find in a websearch). I am a Python guy, but love having single executable tools.

  [0] https://github.com/ducaale/xh

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• curlie

  1 1,831 4.5 Go

  The power of curl, the ease of use of httpie.

  Check out curlie[0] which is really great and already does this. It's essentially a wrapper for curl with JSON support.

  [ 0 ] https://github.com/rs/curlie

• hurl

  9 1,379 9.5 Rust

  Hurl, run and test HTTP requests with plain text.

  

  Under the hood, we use libcurl and a Rust binding. The HTTP engine is curl because curl is awesome!

  [1] https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource/hurl

• httpie

  58 21,192 9.6 Python

  As easy as /aitch-tee-tee-pie/ 🥧 Modern, user-friendly command-line HTTP client for the API era. JSON support, colors, sessions, downloads, plugins & more. https://twitter.com/httpie

  

  Happy to hear about xh, thanks for mentioning it. I recently ran into a problem where HTTPie didn't support HTTP/2, so I had to fall back to cURL. The ticket for HTTP/2 in HTTPie is still open https://github.com/httpie/httpie/issues/692

  Happy to see that xh supports HTTP/2 out of the box.

• hurl

  1 136 4.2 C++

  HTTP server load test and parallel curl utilities (by EdgeCast)

  

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