Show HN: Hurl, test APIs with plain text and libcurl https://ift.tt/oqfLQ0C

Show HN: Hurl, test APIs with plain text and libcurl Hi, We're happy to release a new version of Hurl [1]. Hurl is a command line tool powered by curl, that runs HTTP requests defined in a simple plain text format: # Get home: GET https://example.org HTTP/1.1 200 [Captures] csrf_token: xpath "string(//meta[@name='_csrf_token']/@content)" # Do login! POST https://ift.tt/lLtX3cf X-CSRF-TOKEN: HTTP/1.1 302 Hurl can be used to get data like curl, or as an integration testing tool for JSON/XML HTTP apis / HTML content. Requests can be chained, and one can add asserts on response headers, cookies and body. For instance: GET https://ift.tt/ymhr9zN screencapability: low HTTP/1.1 200 [Asserts] jsonpath "$.validated" == true jsonpath "$.userInfo.lastName" == "Herbert" jsonpath "$.hasDevice" == false jsonpath "$.links" count == 12 jsonpath "$.order" matches /^order-\d{8}$/ You can see more samples in the documentation [2]. We've designed Hurl to be easily integrated in CI/CD (GitHub, GitLab), and its text format can be used as a documentation, commited in a repo etc... It's a single binary written in Rust, that is powered by libcurl under the hood, for a fast CLI tool for both devops and developers. In this new version, we've added the following improvements: - verbose output: add more color to Hurl --verbose output, and also added --very-verbose option to output request and response bodies - request options: command-line options such as --location (follow HTTP redirection), --verbose, --insecure etc... can now be applied to a particular request with an [Options] sections - and more, see here for a quick tout of 1.7.0 [3] [1] https://ift.tt/B51NbIQ [2] https://ift.tt/Xk8wCs7 [3] https://ift.tt/k5qv2pU Previous Show HN < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28758226 > and < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25655737 > https://ift.tt/B51NbIQ September 21, 2022 at 09:43AM