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Inspecting Requests with HTTPie

Learn how to inspect web requests with HTTPie

Setting up HTTPie

The curl multipurpose tool is excellent for interacting with web APIs. But it’s a little cumbersome if we’re going to do it a lot. The HTTPie tool is an alternative that makes working with web requests a little easier.

Let’s install it through the package manager. On Ubuntu, we use apt:

$ sudo apt
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