# htty/htty

htty is the HTTP TTY, a console application for interacting with web servers.

Repository: https://github.com/htty/htty
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/htty
Homepage: http://htty.github.io
Language: Ruby
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: rest, developer-tools, command-line-app, api-consumer, http, web, ruby
Last push: 2021-01-03T02:19:06+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5840, "days_push": 2069, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1770, forks 64 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:34.007575+00:00)

## What it is
htty is an interactive console application for making HTTP requests to web servers, written in Ruby. It provides a tab-completed terminal session for building requests, sending them, and inspecting responses, with session history and scripting support.

## Use cases
- explore and test REST APIs from the terminal
- interactively debug HTTP requests and responses
- learn how HTTP methods, headers, and cookies work
- test endpoints with GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, PATCH requests
- script HTTP request sequences via stdin
- inspect response headers, cookies, and bodies in a REPL

## When to choose
- you want an interactive, exploratory HTTP client instead of one-off curl commands
- you need tab completion, session history, and transcripts while testing an API
- you want a learning tool for understanding HTTP semantics

## When to avoid
- you need automated HTTP requests in code - use a library or curl instead
- you need OAuth or advanced auth beyond HTTP Basic
- you need a maintained tool - the latest release is from 2021 and it targets older Ruby versions

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: maintenance
- function: http-client, cli, developer-tools
- domain: developer-tools, apis, web-development
- platform: cli, ruby, cross-platform
- tags: http-debugging, rest-client, interactive-terminal, api-exploration, tty, command-line, macos, linux

## Member repositories
- htty/htty (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:34.007575+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 2026-08-30T03:26:02.993102+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/htty/htty (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:34.007575+00:00, sha 2589b9b4dfc8)
  - homepage: http://htty.github.io (fetched 2026-08-29T11:04:21.325649+00:00, sha de80c2d2d40f)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.