please-http

⚠️: This project is under active development

• Description
• Requirements
• Installation
• Usage
• Contributing

Description

A http client written in Go.

This project is inspired by httpie-go and httpie but has a few more features.

Requirements

• Go

Installation

# Clone the repo
$ git clone https://github.com/utox39/please-http.git

# cd to the repo
$ cd path/to/please-http

# Build please
$ go build -v ./... 

# Then move it somewhere in your $PATH. Here is an example:
$ mv please ~/bin

Usage

Make a GET request

$ please get https://httpbin.org/get

Make a POST request

$ please post https://httpbin.org/post foo=bar

Make a PUT request

$ please put https://httpbin.org/put foo=bar

Make a PATCH request

$ please patch https://httpbin.org/patch foo=bar

Make a DELETE request

$ please delete https://httpbin.org/delete

Make a HEAD request

$ please head https://httpbin.org/

Make a OPTIONS request

$ please options https://httpbin.org/

Repeat a request n times

The --repeat flag will repeat a request n times.

$ please --repeat=5 post https://httpbin.org/post foo=bar

Create a log file of the http request response

The --log flag will create a log.json file.

If the --repeat flag is used the --log flag will create a dir named "logs" and all the log.json files will be created inside it.

$ please --log post https://httpbin.org/post foo=bar

Generate a response time chart

The --gen-chart will generate a response time chart and must be called with the --repeat flag (--repeat=n, n>= 2). You can visualize it opening the stats.html file in your browser.

$ please --repeat=5 --gen-chart post https://httpbin.org/post foo=bar

Contributing

If you would like to contribute to this project just create a pull request which I will try to review as soon as possible.