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Comment by cobralibre | Hacker News Reader

I seem to spend my every waking moment reporting defects for HTTP APIs. HTTPie's interface is far more intuitive than cURL's, and pretty-printed responses are a kindness not just for me but for the people who have to read the bug reports, too.

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I'm not sure about httpie but using curl with jq also gives nice formatted and coloured responses.

  curl ... | jq '.'

jq is awesome, particularly if you need to filter or otherwise process JSON, but the great part about httpie is that it works with just about everything so you don't have to remember a different filter chain for each type of content.

It uses pygments which means you also get nested formatting for e.g. CSS or JavaScript inside an HTML document.

Awesome, thanks!

You could use our Share URLs which would let the people you share defects with reproduce them for themselves: https://www.runscope.com/docs/sharing

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