eliangcs/http-prompt

An interactive HTTP CLI featuring autocomplete and syntax highlighting

Chang-Hung Liang

@eliangcs

@fogine thanks for the feedback! It's really valuable. I agree with you that current business model probably won't work and it retrains the community from growing. So I think I'll change my direction here. Instead of monetizing the core product (http-prompt), we should make another related product based on http-prompt. The related product is probably an SaaS that bring more organization-specific features to http-prompt, similar to what Postman and Insomnia do. Anyway, it's still undecided. In the short term, I would do the following:

Remove the early access subscription
Change http-prompt license back to MIT
Release v0.10.0 publicly

Let me know if you have any other ideas. Thanks!

Steve Trefethen

@stevetrefethen_twitter

@eliangcs I just found http-prompt and it looks quite interesting. I would agree with @fogine regarding the business model issues and I think you reached the right conclusion here.

Chang-Hung Liang

@eliangcs

@stevetrefethen_twitter I've asked several people and they all gave me the similar feedback. Good to know you agree with it, too!

Assaf Lavi

@assaflavi_twitter

@eliangcs just discovered http-prompt yesterday, and I am thoroughly in love.

Paolo D.

@pdonorio

I'd like to express my gratitude here too. This is some really great piece of work :)

Chang-Hung Liang

@eliangcs

@assaflavi_twitter @pdonorio really appreciate your compliments :)

Giuseppe Piscopo

@GiuseppePiscopo

Hello all. Just found about this command line client. Is there a way to store/list/add/remove/manage a list of presets? Similar somehow to what you can do in Postman. What I mean is something like editing an input file in some format where you can list all your preset REST calls with their own properties. E.g.:

presets: [{
  name: 'Load foos - Local machine',
  url: 'http://localhost:1234/api/foo',
  verb: 'get',
  authorization: {
    type: 'basic',
    username: 'johndoe',
    password: 'SECRET PASSWORD',
  },
  headers: [{
    key: 'accept',
    value: 'application/json',
  }],
}, {
 ...
}],

and then be able to feed one of this presets into http prompt command line: http-prompt --input ./my-presets.conf --preset 'Load foos - Local machine'

Chang-Hung Liang

@eliangcs

@GiuseppePiscopo this sounds like what the env command does. You can export the env output to a file. Then import it with exec or source command. Refer to the doc here: http://docs.http-prompt.com/en/latest/user-guide.html#saving-and-loading-sessions

Giuseppe Piscopo

@GiuseppePiscopo

thanks @eliangcs , that might be exactly what I was looking for. Thanks for pointers

devilelephant

@devilelephant

Trying to save a session but having a hard time. http://search.dev.clario.us/pnix/indicator/_search> env > ~/dev/session.json returns error [Errno 20] Not a directory: u'~/dev/session.json'.

~/dev is an existing folder on my disk.

Chang-Hung Liang

@eliangcs

@devilelephant http-prompt doesn't recognize '~'. You have to type out actual path, like /home/username/dev/session.json or ./dev/session.json

Patrick Tamstrup

@patrkris

Hi everyone. Stupid question here, but how do I actually use an autocomplete option, when the suggestion is made from something I typed earlier? Pressing <TAB> didn't work

fogine

@fogine

@patrkris I think It uses emacs-style binding which is ctrl+e by default.

Chang-Hung Liang

@eliangcs

@patrkris or right arrow key

mmacedo

@mmacedoeu

About # Body parameters in raw JSON (new in v0.9.0)

http://docs.http-prompt.com/en/latest/user-guide.html#quickstart

I am trying to post json

but typing: name:=Tatooine or name:='Tattoine' or name:="Tattoine" I get an error about "ValueError: No JSON object could be decoded"

So how can I set JSON fields with strings ?

mmacedo

@mmacedoeu

sorry, got it, just put name=Tatooine will work

Kim

@kimswe

@eliangcs Hi! Awesom project, i really hope u get some cash out of it, even if its open source. I have but a small suggestion.
Put a message when 'less' is not found, that tells the user to fix his config file. Found the solution above, and the docs does not seem to mention it.

Kim

@kimswe

also running this trough the normal windows console is not working, spent an hour debugging using print statements :D then i started up a Cmder (cmder.net) console, reverted my config edit to less, and it looks like Bobs my uncle.

Chang-Hung Liang

@eliangcs

@kimswe this is a great feedback! It'd be easier for us to track this if you can create an issue on github. I probably won't have time to fix this anytime soon, but someone else might. Again, thanks for the great feedback!

Alan Sill

@alansill

Have been playing with fx (https://github.com/antonmedv/fx) installed via npm. Using it within http-prompt doesn't work, as in the example "get | fx", to browse json output. Any hints as to why?

Angad Singh

@dotangad

Hey guys, I can't find any documentation about changing themes, I've been through the github, the website and the docs.

It'd be great if someone could help me change my theme!

iseehk

@iseehk

Hi I wanna ask how can I post with json content with new feature field=@file.json

file.json content

{
"addr0": "Unit 315, 3/f PAK TIN ESTATE, BLOCK 10, Shek Kip Mei",
"reference": "1",
"returnRecords": 10
}

when I run with debug mode , the content is

"data": "{\"field\": \"{\r\n\t\\"addr0\\": \\"Unit 315, 3/f PAK TIN ESTATE, BLOCK 10, Shek Kip Mei\\",\r\n\t\\"reference\\": \\"1\\",\r\n\t\\"returnRecords\\": 10\r\n}\"}",

it seems that , http-prompt add redundant file in the json content "file: {}" . I really dont need it.

iseehk

@iseehk

given: I am using version : 1.0.2

Zan Loy

@zanloy

Hi. I am trying to take the result of a /login POST and put the JWT from that request into my environment. How would I go about doing this? I can isolate the value by doing: post /login | jq .token

Zan Loy

@zanloy

Actually maybe I'm just dumb... I might have a fundamental misunderstanding of how JWT works.

Roberto Vallejo

@NarizWallace_twitter

hi all, I'm wondering if there is a way to load the functions in my .bash_profile so I can execute them by surronding with `

I tried source .bash_profile

xoss

@xoss

Hello everyone. It seems for me, that http-prompt somehow ignores Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded. Even though httpie preview returns the right command

http --form --proxy=https://localhost:9999 --verbose --verify=no http://example.com password=bar username=foo Content-Type:application/x-www-form-urlencoded

the actual request treats the body to be json

http://example.com> post
POST / HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/json, */*
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: 38
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Host: example.com
User-Agent: HTTPie/2.0.0

{"password": "bar", "username": "foo"}

Whereas, when running the httpie command directly on the shell, it's interpreted correctly

$ http --form --proxy=https://localhost:9999 --verbose --verify=no http://example.com password=bar username=foo Content-Type:application/x-www-form-urlencoded                                                                                                  
POST / HTTP/1.1
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: 25
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Host: example.com
User-Agent: HTTPie/2.0.0

password=bar&username=foo

Has someone experienced this issue so far as well? Was browsing the reported issue, but couldn't find something related.

ubuntupunk

@ubuntupunk

< code>http-prompt http://httpbin.org
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/afropunk/.local/bin/http-prompt", line 7, in <module>
from http_prompt.cli import cli
File "/home/afropunk/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/http_prompt/cli.py", line 10, in <module>
from httpie.plugins import FormatterPlugin # noqa, avoid cyclic import
File "/home/afropunk/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/httpie/plugins/init.py", line 6, in <module>
from httpie.plugins.base import (
File "/home/afropunk/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/httpie/plugins/base.py", line 104
def format_headers(self, headers: str) -> str:
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
</code>

Just installed

anyone debug?

DEVILLE

@jcdevil

Hello !
Trying to send a GET request with digest auth, I get the following error :

❯ http-prompt http://app.example.com:8080
Version: 1.0.0
http://app.example.com:8080> --auth-type digest
http://app.example.com:8080> --auth foo:bar
http://app.example.com:8080> get
usage: http [--json] [--form] [--compress] [--pretty {all,colors,format,none}] [--style STYLE] [--unsorted] [--sorted] [--format-options FORMAT_OPTIONS] [--print WHAT] [--headers] [--body] [--verbose]
            [--all] [--history-print WHAT] [--stream] [--output FILE] [--download] [--continue] [--session SESSION_NAME_OR_PATH | --session-read-only SESSION_NAME_OR_PATH] [--auth USER[:PASS]]
            [--auth-type {basic,digest}] [--ignore-netrc] [--offline] [--proxy PROTOCOL:PROXY_URL] [--follow] [--max-redirects MAX_REDIRECTS] [--max-headers MAX_HEADERS] [--timeout SECONDS] [--check-status]
            [--path-as-is] [--verify VERIFY] [--ssl {ssl2.3,tls1,tls1.1,tls1.2}] [--ciphers CIPHERS] [--cert CERT] [--cert-key CERT_KEY] [--ignore-stdin] [--help] [--version] [--traceback]
            [--default-scheme DEFAULT_SCHEME] [--debug]
            [METHOD] URL [REQUEST_ITEM [REQUEST_ITEM ...]]
http: error: unrecognized arguments: GET http://app.example.com:8080

Any tip is welcome. Thx !

odbuser2

@odbuser2

def format_headers(self, headers: str) -> str:
                                ^

SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Experiencing the same issue.
Mint linux(19.3 with updates)
HTTPie (0.9.8)
http-prompt from pip (9.0.1 python 2.7).

odbuser2

@odbuser2

oops, http-prompt should be installed with python3-pip not python-pip. That fixed the issue.

Alice Carroll

@iamalicecarroll

Is it possible to use a custom theme?

David Karlsson

@davidklsn

how do I set params for a get request?

David Karlsson

@davidklsn

i can make a get request by cd {url_with_parms} and then get, but that seems unnecessary

BVMarius

@BVMarius

Hello,
I'm facing a strange behaviour. If i'm running the preview of the call with httpie every thing looks as expected however when I'm running a GET call I'm getting http: error: unrecognized arguments: GET http://localhost:8080/api/test. If i redirect the hole preview to a file or just take it and runit in httpie not on http-prompt I'm getting a result as expected.
What could be wrong. I have to mention that I'm using other parmaters as well (--auth=<encoded jwt token> and ----auth-type=jwt)
Thank you

Elena Lape

@elenalape

@/all Hey hey! HTTPie chat is now on Discord. Join the server to get HTTPie support from the community, discuss features and contributing, and talk about all things API development: https://httpie.io/chat

ptitpoulpe

@ptitpoulpe

hello, wonder if it’s possible to have a recursive ls ?

Elena Lape

@elenalape

@ptitpoulpe if you come over to Discord, someone will help you find an answer or a solution for what you want to do. The server is quite small now, so the project maintainers themselves may be able to respond soon!

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