# HTTPie

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/httpie/  
**Website:** https://httpie.io/  
**APIs profiled:** 2

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.

## Kin Score — 31.8 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 31.8).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 59.3 |
| Contract Quality | 60.8 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 10.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 11.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.9 |
| Access Clarity | 28.9 |

## Agent readiness — 24.5 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | na |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | na |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | na |

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (2)

- **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.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Httpie Agentic Access** — 2 operations

## Security (1)

- **Httpie Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS

## Plans (1)

- **Httpie Plans Pricing**

## Tags

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

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/httpie/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.