httpie

A command-line text web client, similar to curl. Although Curl is the best known text web client, Httpie is easier to use. Also, it defaults to JSON encoding and decoding, which is a better match for FastAPI.

$ pip install httpie

Usage

GET

# Show response with headers
$ http localhost:8000/hello

# Show response without headers
$ http -b localhost:8000/hello

# Show response with request headers and response headers
$ http -v localhost:8000/hello

POST

# Send request with body
$ http localhost:8000/hello name=Champ