HTTPie
Ranked 3 of 5 HTTP clients by recommenders
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.
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.
8 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 7
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 88%
Recommended in 6 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 7 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 7 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 6 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Friendly syntax for headers and bodies
“The CLI tools way of making requests with headers and post bodies is really nice in my opinion”
Comment from 1 Apr 2026 in “Ask HN: What dev tools do you rely on that nobody talks about?” “a CLI wrapper for Requests that provides a very friendly CLI DSL”
Comment from 22 May 2026 in “Slumber a TUI HTTP Client” “has a really great syntax that closer resembles”
Comment from 28 Jan 2026 in “Make.ts” Simple, long-loved alternative to other tools
“I recommend HTTPie as a simple alternative.”
Comment from 6 Nov 2025 in “Recommend Postman Alternative” “i used to love httpii for this!”
Comment from 13 May 2026 in “Web Server on a Nintendo Wii”
Other HTTP clients people recommend
The four most recommended other HTTP clients, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| curl | 100 | 26 | 79% | 12 | — | Approved |
| wget | 19 | 1 | 95% | 10 | — | Approved |
| HTTPieThis page | 7 | 1 | 88% | 6 | — | — |
| curl-impersonate | 5 | 1 | 83% | 4 | — | — |
| lgogdownloader | 5 | 0 | 100% | 2 | — | — |
What people said
8 of the 9 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“it appears unmaintained, and still doesn't support HTTP/2, which is a non-starter for me.”
“a CLI wrapper for Requests that provides a very friendly CLI DSL”
“i used to love httpii for this!”
“The CLI tools way of making requests with headers and post bodies is really nice in my opinion”
“it's more understandable for them in case of error”
“has a really great syntax that closer resembles”
“I recommend HTTPie as a simple alternative.”
“Mitmproxy lets you easily save flows with a bit of Python glue to output httpie commands giving history”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.