# HTTPie

7 Hacker News commenters recommended HTTPie and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 6 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend HTTPie for its friendly command-line syntax for headers and request bodies. One critic says it appears unmaintained and lacks HTTP/2 support.

## Why people recommend it

- Friendly syntax for headers and bodies (3 comments): "The CLI tools way of making requests with headers and post bodies is really nice in my opinion" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47606372)) "a CLI wrapper for Requests that provides a very friendly CLI DSL" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48238506)) "has a really great syntax that closer resembles" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46801697))
- Simple, long-loved alternative to other tools (2 comments): "I recommend HTTPie as a simple alternative." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45832590)) "i used to love httpii for this!" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48121658))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [curl](https://hackerapproved.com/p/curl.md): 100 recommend
- [wget](https://hackerapproved.com/p/wget.md): 19 recommend
- [curl-impersonate](https://hackerapproved.com/p/curl-impersonate.md): 5 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "HTTPie", https://hackerapproved.com/p/httpie/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).