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Hurl Partial

Hurl, run and test HTTP requests with plain text.

Runs chains of requests written in plain text files and asserts on the responses, on top of libcurl.

Language: Rust
Licence: Apache-2.0
Stars: 19k
Latest: 8.0.1
Last push: 2026-10-05

xh Partial

Friendly and fast tool for sending HTTP requests

Friendlier syntax and formatted output, for HTTP only.

Language: Rust
Licence: MIT
Stars: 8.1k
Latest: v0.26.2
Last push: 2026-09-05

About

A command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, MQTTS, POP3, POP3S, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMTPS, TELNET, TFTP, WS and WSS. libcurl offers a myriad of powerful features

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Owner: curl organisation
Stars: 43k
Forks: 7.4k
Latest: curl-8_22_0
Last push: 2026-10-06
Terms: Open source
Created: 2010, 16 years ago
Release cadence: about 59 days between releases
Active contributors: 39+ commit authors on the default branch in the last 90 days
Stars over 13 days: 2026-09-24 42,9162026-10-06 43,120

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