Hurl: Run and test HTTP requests with plain text

Summary

Hurl is a command line tool that runs HTTP requests defined in a simple plain text format. It can chain requests, capture values and evaluate queries on headers and body response. Hurl is very versatile: it can be used for both fetching data and testing HTTP sessions. Hurl makes it easy to work with HTML content, REST / SOAP / GraphQL APIs, or any other XML / JSON based APIs. # Get home: GET https://example.org HTTP 200 [Captures] csrf_token: xpath "string(//meta[@name='_csrf_token']/@content)" # Do login! POST https://example.org/login?user=toto&password=1234 X-CSRF-TOKEN: {{csrf_token}} HTTP 302 Chaining multiple requests is easy: GET https://example.org/api/health GET https://example.org/api/step1 GET https://example.org/api/step2 GET https://example.org/api/step3 Also an HTTP Test Tool Hurl can run HTTP requests but can also be used to test HTTP responses. Different types of queries and predicates are supported, from XPath and JSONPath on body response, to assert on status code and response headers. It is well adapted for REST / JSON APIs POST https://example.org/api/tests { "id": "4568", "evaluate": true } HTTP 200 [Asserts] header "X-Frame-Options" == "SAMEORIGIN" jsonpath "$.status" == "RUNNING" # Check the status code jsonpath "$.tests" count == 25 # Check the number of items jsonpath "$.id" matches /\d{4}/ # Check the format of the id HTML content GET https://example.org HTTP 200 [Asserts] xpath "normalize-space(//head/title)" == "Hello world!" GraphQL POST https://example.org/graphql ```graphql { human(id: "1000") { name height(unit: FOOT) } } ``` HTTP 200 and even SOAP APIs POST https://example.org/InStock Content-Type: application/soap+xml; charset=utf-8 SOAPAction: "http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope" <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope" xmlns:m="https://example.org"> <soap:Header></soap:Header> <soap:Body> <m:GetStockPrice> <m:StockName>GOOG</m:StockName> </m:GetStockPrice> </so...