# rs/curlie

The power of curl, the ease of use of httpie.

Repository: https://github.com/rs/curlie
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/curlie
Homepage: https://rs.github.io/curlie
Language: Go
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: curl, httpie, webdevelopment, api-client, cli, go, developer-tools, http-client, terminal
Last push: 2025-12-07T20:14:24+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 48/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 56, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3022, "days_push": 269, "days_rel": 544, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 1}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3713, forks 113 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:15.302520+00:00)

## What it is
Curlie is a command-line HTTP client that acts as a frontend to curl while providing the ease of use and output formatting of HTTPie. It exposes all curl options with syntax sugar and pretty-prints JSON responses on the fly.

## Use cases
- send http requests from the terminal with pretty  output
- test rest apis from the command line
- use httpie-style syntax but keep all curl features
- debug streamed http responses without buffering
- print the underlying curl command for a request

## When to choose
- you want HTTPie's ergonomics with curl's full feature set
- you need unbuffered output for streaming responses
- you want headers on stderr so you can pipe response bodies

## When to avoid
- you need a GUI or scripted HTTP client library
- you already have workflows built around plain curl or HTTPie

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: stable
- function: http-client, cli, developer-tools
- domain: developer-tools, web-development, apis
- platform: windows, bsd, cross-platform, cli
- tags: curl, httpie, api-client, -pretty-print, terminal, command-line, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- rs/curlie (main) score 48

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:15.302520+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:30:53.611378+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/rs/curlie (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:15.302520+00:00, sha 195001a83aab)
  - homepage: https://rs.github.io/curlie (fetched 2026-08-29T09:24:16.685165+00:00, sha 6196a492a23b)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.