micha/resty

Health v2 · maintenance only

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2653 stars · 140 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Resty is a tiny shell script wrapper around curl that provides concise GET/POST/PUT/DELETE commands for interacting with REST APIs directly from bash or zsh. Because it runs as shell functions, it integrates naturally with pipelines and standard Unix tools like grep, sed, and awk.

Use cases

• make quick REST API calls from the terminal
• pipe data to and from REST endpoints in bash scripts
• test an API without writing curl flags every time
• PUT or POST edited file contents to a REST service
• script interactions with a JSON API in shell

When to choose

• you live in the shell and want minimal-friction REST requests
• you need REST calls composable in pipelines with other Unix tools
• you want a lightweight curl wrapper with remembered hosts and cookie handling

When to avoid

• you need a full-featured HTTP client with advanced auth, retries, or response formatting
• you prefer standalone tools like httpie or curl with explicit flags
• you need GUI-based API testing or request collections

Facets

cli-tool · maturity maintenance

http-client cli developer-tools developer-tools apis web-development cli rest-client curl-wrapper shell-functions bash zsh pipelines command-line linux macos shell

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