HTTPie

HTTPie is a user-friendly command-line and web-based HTTP client designed for testing, debugging, and interacting with APIs and HTTP services. It provides expressive syntax that mirrors actual HTTP requests, formatted and syntax-highlighted output, native JSON support, file uploads, form submissions, persistent sessions, multiple authentication schemes (basic, digest, bearer, .netrc, and an extensible plugin system covering OAuth, AWS, NTLM, and more), download mode similar to wget, HTTPS and proxy support, and cross-platform installation across Linux, macOS, Windows, and FreeBSD. The companion HTTPie web app and Desktop client layer a graphical interface over the same request and response model that the CLI exposes.

HTTPie publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network: App API and Hello API. Tagged areas include API Client, API Testing, CLI, Clients, and Command Line.

The HTTPie catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

HTTPie’s developer surface includes documentation, signup flow, engineering blog, pricing, and 5 more developer resources.

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33.8/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 20/100 agent aware saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

AccessFreemium

1 APIs

API Client API Testing CLI Clients Command Line Developer Tools HTTP Open-Source Sessions

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

Composite quality — 33.8/100 · thin

Contract Quality 14.8 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 4.8 / 20

Access Clarity 5.8 / 20

Operational Transparency 1.4 / 13

Contract Governance 1.2 / 12

Discoverability 5.9 / 10

Agent readiness — 20/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 4 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Create-or-Update Ergonomics does not apply to this provider. The published contracts declare no write operations, and a read-only API cannot create-or-update. The facet is excluded from this provider's denominator entirely — not scored zero. A reference or data API is not deficient for being unable to upsert.

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APIs 2

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

HTTPie App API

The App API from HTTPie — 1 operation(s) for app.

HTTPie Hello API

The Hello API from HTTPie — 1 operation(s) for hello.

Open Collections 4

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

HTTPie App API

OPEN COLLECTION

HTTPie App Hello API

OPEN COLLECTION

HTTPie API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Httpie Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Httpie Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Httpie Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Httpie Context

22 classes · 0 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

HTTPie API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 3

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

HTTPie Request

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

HTTPie Response

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

HTTPie Session

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Httpie Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Httpie Agentic Access

2 operations

2 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Signup

Signup

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

Company 3

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: httpie
name: HTTPie
description: HTTPie is a user-friendly command-line and web-based HTTP client designed for testing, debugging, and interacting
  with APIs and HTTP services. It provides expressive syntax that mirrors actual HTTP requests, formatted and syntax-highlighted
  output, native JSON support, file uploads, form submissions, persistent sessions, multiple authentication schemes (basic,
  digest, bearer, .netrc, and an extensible plugin system covering OAuth, AWS, NTLM, and more), download mode similar to wget,
  HTTPS and proxy support, and cross-platform installation across Linux, macOS, Windows, and FreeBSD. The companion HTTPie
  web app and Desktop client layer a graphical interface over the same request and response model that the CLI exposes.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/httpie/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/httpie.png
tags:
- API Client
- API Testing
- CLI
- Clients
- Command Line
- Developer Tools
- HTTP
- Open-Source
- Sessions
tags_raw:
- API Client
- API Testing
- CLI
- Client
- Command Line
- Developer Tools
- HTTP
- Open Source
- Sessions
created: '2025-01-08'
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: httpie:httpie-app-api
  name: HTTPie App API
  description: The App API from HTTPie — 1 operation(s) for app.
  humanURL: https://httpie.io/
  tags:
  - App
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/httpie-app-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://httpie.io/docs/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/request.json
  - type: JSONLDContext
    url: json-ld/httpie-context.jsonld
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://httpie.io/docs/cli/installation
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/httpie/cli
- aid: httpie:httpie-hello-api
  name: HTTPie Hello API
  description: The Hello API from HTTPie — 1 operation(s) for hello.
  humanURL: https://httpie.io/
  tags:
  - Hello
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/httpie-hello-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://httpie.io/docs/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/request.json
  - type: JSONLDContext
    url: json-ld/httpie-context.jsonld
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://httpie.io/docs/cli/installation
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/httpie/cli
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/httpie-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/httpie-domain-security.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/httpie
- type: Website
  url: https://httpie.io/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://httpie.io/docs/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/httpie
- type: Signup
  url: https://httpie.io/app
- type: Blog
  url: https://httpie.io/blog
- type: Pricing
  url: https://httpie.io/pricing
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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