README.md

TinyHTTPie

This repository contains the code to the multi-part series "The Evolution of a Script".

Each branch contains the code of the HTTP client tinyhttp at a different stage of its development. But don't forget that this repository is meant to be a tutorial about python packaging, so if you just need an awesome http client, use HTTPie 😃

Contents

1. A Simple Script
2. Sys Module
3. Argparse Module
4. Distribution via install.sh
5. Distribution via setup.py
6. Testing and CI
7. Documentation
8. Publishing at PyPI
9. Publishing at Anaconda

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The version of tinHTTPie within this main branch is the most advanced version.

Installation

Can be easily downloaded, built and installed via pip.

pip install git+https://github.com/NiklasTiede/tinyHTTPie

Example

Some GET requests from the command line.

❯ tihttp -H google.com
Cache-Control: private, max-age=0
Content-Encoding: gzip
Content-Length: 5649
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2021 17:08:42 GMT
...

❯ tihttp -B http://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/todos?id=1
[
  {
    "userId": 1,
    "id": 1,
    "title": "delectus aut autem",
    "completed": false
  }
]

I hope you will find something useful for yourself, I'm thankful for every pull request regarding bugs, typos etc. 😃