Yeah, this was my initial thought. It reminded me of its REST API format, which supports post-response scripts (written in JS) to e.g. set a variable up for an access token after an OAuth exchange. Hurl's post-response handling seems a bit limited in comparison.

I'm not sure if it can do the sort of web scraping (from the DOM) that Hurl claims to support, though. I guess you can run Hurl in CI, too.

It's a very good way to show folks how to use an API, and I try to check in these files to VCS. You can also write test assertions with it and it also supports environment-based secrets.