Send HTTP requests from terminal and Generate API Docs. An alternative to cURL, httpie ⚡️

$ sh -c "$(curl -sL https://git.io/getpwcli)"

• Clone the repo

$ git clone https://github.com/hoppscotch/hopp-cli.git

• Build and install

$ make

$ sudo make install

• You can find the Binaries in Gzipped form from the Releases page Supports
• Linux(x64,x86)
• Mac(x64)
• Windows(x64,x86)

IMPORTANT: Not tested on Windows, please leave your feedback/bugs in the Issues section

• You can install from AUR
• There are three different packages available

Install by brew install athul/tap/hopp-cli

Putting Simply: Just pass the URL to the request method

• GET : $ hopp-cli get <url>
• POST: $ hopp-cli post <url>
• PATCH: $ hopp-cli patch <url>
• PUT : $ hopp-cli put <url>
• DELETE: $ hopp-cli delete <url>

Example for a POST request:

$ hopp-cli post https://reqres.in/api/users/2 -c js -b '{"name": "morp","job": "zion resident"}'

• send for testing multiple endpoints
• gen for generating API docs from Collection

SEND: This can be used to test multiple endpoints from the hoppscotch-collection.json file.

The output will only be the statuscode

Example : hopp-cli send <PATH to hoppscotch collection.json>

Sample Output:

GEN: Gen command Generates the API Documentation from hoppscotch-collection.json file and serves it as a Static Page on port 1341 Example: hopp-cli gen <PATH to hoppscotch collection.json>

Sample Hosted site: https://hopp-docsify.surge.sh/

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Flags:

• browser or b to toggle whether the browser should open automatically [Boolean]
• port or p for specifying the port where the server should listen to [Integer]

(optional)

• -t or --token for a Bearer Token for Authentication
• -u for the Username in Basic Auth
• -p for the password in Basic Auth

• -c or --ctype for the Content Type

• -b or --body for the Data Body, this can be of json, html or plain text based on the request.

Enclose the body in Single Quotes(')

Content Types can be of