httpie/desktop

Features

• API Client Applications - A graphical interface for constructing, sending, and analyzing HTTP and GraphQL requests.
• HTTP Client Workflows - Organizing API calls into collections and spaces while syncing request data across multiple devices.
• Request Testing - Provides a graphical interface to send live HTTP requests and analyze responses for API debugging.
• Raw HTTP Request Construction - Allows the manual construction of HTTP requests with precise control over methods, URLs, headers, and bodies.
• AI Assistants - Includes an integrated AI assistant to help construct, refine, and manage API interactions.
• AI Request Generation - Uses an integrated AI assistant to create HTTP requests from natural language prompts.
• GraphQL Clients and Servers - Includes a GraphQL client for writing queries and variables with syntax highlighting and auto-completion.
• GraphQL Integrations - Provides a specialized interface for interacting with GraphQL APIs using schema-based validation.
• GraphQL Schema Autocomplete - Fetches introspection schemas from remote servers to provide real-time validation and suggestions during query composition.
• API Development Environments - A workspace for organizing requests into collections and managing dynamic variables across different deployment contexts.
• API Request Collections - Organizes saved API requests into collections and folders with shared authentication credentials.
• API Request Libraries - Provides organized libraries of API requests that can be synced across multiple devices.
• API Request Organizations - Groups requests into spaces, collections, and tabs to keep project assets structured.
• API Execution Contexts - Toggles between different variable sets for various environments like local and staging.
• Command Execution Contexts - Toggles between different environment sets to instantly update variable values for outgoing requests.
• Environment Context Managers - Enables switching between variable sets for different environments using local-only storage for secrets.
• Dynamic Variable Evaluators - Resolves dynamic variables containing expressions and supports value masking for security.
• Environment Mode Toggles - Provides mechanisms for switching between development, staging, and production runtime configurations.
• Environment Variable Managers - Provides a manager for defining and switching between different sets of configuration values for various API contexts.
• GraphQL Client Tools - Provides a dedicated editor for crafting GraphQL requests with server-driven autocomplete and validation.
• GraphQL Clients - Provides a dedicated GraphQL client with syntax highlighting and server-driven autocomplete.
• GraphQL Integrated Development Environments - Offers a dedicated GraphQL editor with syntax highlighting, variable inputs, and schema-driven autocomplete.
• GraphQL Query Editors - Crafts GraphQL queries and mutations using an auto-fetched schema for real-time autocomplete and validation.
• HTTP Request Construction - Building and sending customized HTTP requests with specific methods, headers, and bodies to test API endpoints.
• HTTP Request Management - Executes HTTP calls, monitors response statistics, and renders HTML responses for improved readability.
• Project Organization Tools - Groups libraries, collections, and environments into isolated workspaces to manage multiple projects.
• Request Header Management - Provides comprehensive tools for defining and managing custom HTTP request headers with autocomplete.
• Request Parameter Configuration - Includes a dedicated form for defining dynamic path segments and query string parameters.
• API Execution Contexts - Toggles variable values to quickly switch targets between local, staging, and production servers.
• URL Path Parameterization - Allows defining dynamic path segments using specific syntax to create reusable and flexible request templates.
• Workspace Organization - Organizes requests into isolated workspaces to group projects and share libraries.
• Project Isolation Containers - Groups libraries, collections, and environments into isolated project containers.
• Request Environment Isolation - Organizes projects into isolated spaces containing dedicated libraries, collections, and environments.
• Environment Variables - Provides a system for managing reusable placeholders and secrets across requests and collections.
• Request Containers - Groups requests into isolated containers that include their own libraries and environments.
• API Environment Switchings - Enables seamless switching between different API environment contexts by updating variable sets.
• Request Configurations - Groups requests and environments into isolated workspaces with inherited configuration settings.
• Dynamic Variables - Provides dynamic variable placeholders and masking to avoid repetition and secure sensitive data across requests.
• Recursive Variable Resolution - Implements recursive resolution of nested placeholders to avoid repetition across requests.
• HTTP Request Builders - Provides tools to construct, format, and dispatch customized HTTP requests to external services.
• HTTP Request Configurations - Defines HTTP methods, URLs, headers, and payloads to precisely configure how a server is called.
• Request Execution - Executes HTTP requests and analyzes response metadata including timing, size, and HTML previews.
• HTTP Request Dispatchers - Sends network requests using standard or custom HTTP verbs and provides detailed response statistics.
• Response Body Previews - Displays response bodies with HTML rendering to simplify the review of server content.
• Interactive Response Previews - Inspects response metadata and renders HTML bodies while managing automatic redirects.
• Request Header Configuration - Offers tools for defining and managing custom HTTP request headers via a dedicated configuration form.
• URL Parameter Configuration - Includes a dedicated form for managing query string and path parameters for API calls.
• Client Context Switching - Implements high-level profile swapping for API environment variables and request targets.
• API Authentication Schemes - Sets security credentials like Basic or Bearer tokens at the request or collection level.
• API Authentication Schemes - Sets security credentials using Basic, Bearer token, or API key schemes.
• Client-Side Request Authentication - Provides mechanisms for adding and managing authentication credentials for outgoing network requests.
• Environment Variable Management - Provides a system for loading and switching between different runtime environment variable sets.
• Environment Variable Managers - Manages reusable variables across different contexts with built-in support for masking sensitive values.
• Environment Variable Sets - Allows toggling between different sets of variable values for local, staging, and production environments.
• Recursive Variable Expansion - Implements recursive resolution of nested placeholders within request definitions until a final value is reached.
• Request Interface Generators - Uses AI to determine URLs and parameters and generate the corresponding request interface.
• HTTP Request Replay and Diff - Sends HTTP requests and monitors response performance via timing and payload size metadata.
• API Response Analysis - Executes HTTP calls and provides response metadata and human-friendly HTML rendering for analysis.
• Request Parameter Management - Provides a dedicated interface for managing query, form, and path parameters in API requests.
• Request Payload Construction - Provides a mechanism for constructing structured API request payloads with the ability to toggle between formats.
• AI-Assisted Generation - Uses an integrated AI assistant to automatically generate HTTP requests from natural language prompts.
• GraphQL Query Builders - Provides a dedicated interface for drafting GraphQL queries using auto-fetched schemas for autocomplete.
• HTML Response Renderers - Displays HTML response bodies as rendered pages to simplify debugging of rich error pages.
• Response Body Renderers - Renders HTML response bodies as interactive web pages to simplify the analysis of server outputs.
• Method Configuration - Supports specifying standard HTTP methods or defining custom verbs for unconventional APIs.
• Query Parameters - Offers a form-based interface to manage and preview URL query parameters in real-time.
• Request Body Handling - Provides tools to create request payloads using text, form, file, or GraphQL formats.
• Request Body Buffers - Constructs API payloads using text, form, or GraphQL types for various endpoints.
• Request-Response Interceptors - Inspects incoming responses and renders HTML bodies as browser views for easier data review.
• Response Inspection Tools - Analyzes response metadata and renders HTML bodies as interactive web pages.
• API Response Processing - Renders HTML responses and filters structured data using JSONPath or XPath for deeper analysis.
• Response Visualizers - Inspects response metadata and renders HTML bodies as interactive web pages to visualize server outputs.
• Global Variables and Environments - Creates and references dynamic variables across requests with support for global refactoring.
• Connection Security Settings - Configures whether to follow HTTP redirects and whether to validate server SSL certificates.
• Data Exporters - Saves spaces, collections, and requests as JSON files or clipboard text for backup purposes.
• Data Import and Export - Enables moving spaces, collections, and requests via JSON files for backups or migration.
• Collection Exports - Packages requests and collections into portable JSON files for migration or backup.
• API Data Export - Exports request collections and environments as JSON files for portability and sharing.
• Compressed Collection Importers - Imports bundled collections of requests and environments from external sources.
• Cross-Device Synchronization Engines - Synchronizes spaces, collections, and environments across multiple devices via a secure cloud backup.
• External Data Importers - Converts cURL commands or external data exports into usable requests and collections.
• JSON Request Serializers - Serializes request data into JSON documents, cURL commands, or language-specific snippets.
• Request Portability - Moves requests and environments via JSON files, cURL commands, or external tool imports.
• Data Synchronization Tools - Backs up and syncs spaces, collections, and requests via a secure cloud account.
• Cloud File Sync - Backs up data to a cloud account to synchronize requests and environments in real time.
• Code Snippet Generators - Generates code snippets in various programming languages based on a configured HTTP request.
• cURL Command Export - Converts configured requests into cURL or CLI commands for use in terminals.
• cURL Command Generators - Converts configured API requests into executable cURL command strings for terminal use.
• cURL Command Integration - Importing requests from cURL commands and exporting configured API calls as CLI snippets for other tools.
• cURL Importers - Loads requests, collections, and environments by parsing cURL commands or external export files.
• HTTP Method Tools - Sets the HTTP verb using standard options or defines custom methods for unconventional APIs.
• API Configuration Syncing - Saves and synchronizes request data in real-time across multiple machines.
• Cloud Project Synchronization - Backs up project data to a secure cloud for real-time synchronization across clients.
• API Collection Syncing - Backs up and synchronizes spaces, collections, and variables across multiple devices.
• Network Performance Analyzers - Provides timing and size statistics for each request to diagnose network performance.
• Path Parameter Definitions - Provides a dedicated parameters table to define and manage dynamic segments within request URLs.
• Request Drafts - Provides a private area for auto-saved experimental requests to keep permanent collections uncluttered.
• Project Data Synchronization - Backs up and syncs spaces, collections, and requests via a cloud account.
• Query Parameter Configurations - Allows users to append key-value pairs to URLs with a real-time preview of the resulting query string.
• Recursive Variable Resolution - Implements a double-bracket syntax for defining and referencing reusable dynamic variables across requests.
• Request Body Prettifiers - Includes an automatic formatter to indent and clean the formatting of API request bodies.
• Request Export Utilities - Generates raw HTTP previews and exports requests as JSON, cURL commands, or language-specific code snippets.
• Workspace Backups - Saves spaces, collections, and environments as JSON files or clipboard text for backup.
• Local-Only Variable Storage - Toggles between variable sets using local-only environments to prevent sensitive data from syncing to the cloud.
• External Resource Importers - Converts cURL commands or external data exports from other clients into usable requests.
• API Project Synchronization - Backs up project data to a secure cloud to keep requests and environments consistent.
• Custom Request Headers - Provides tools for injecting custom metadata into HTTP request headers.
• Automatic Redirect Handlers - Provides logic to automatically follow or ignore HTTP redirects based on user configuration.
• Client Request Monitoring - Provides timing and size statistics for sent requests and cancels in-progress transactions.
• Request Payloads - Builds and validates the structure of a request body before transmission to the server.
• Request Execution Behavior - Toggles automatic redirect following and disables SSL validation for expired certificates.
• HTTP Connection Behavior - Toggles automatic redirect following and SSL validation to handle specific server behaviors.
• Response Link Interactions - Displays response metadata and renders HTML bodies to follow links or duplicate requests.
• Response Body Processing - Renders HTML responses in a preview and enables downloading of the response body and headers.
• Response Content Exploration - Enables interaction with response body URLs and the filtering of structured data using query languages.
• Request Lifecycle Analysis - Displays execution time and payload size for sent requests and cancels in-progress transactions.
• GraphQL Formatting - Provides a dedicated editor for GraphQL queries and variables with schema-based layout and styling standardization.
• Hierarchical Credential Inheritance - Implements hierarchical authentication inheritance to apply security credentials from parent collections to all child requests.
• Hierarchical Credential Inheritance - Implements authentication inheritance where child requests automatically use credentials defined at the collection level.
• Bearer Token Authentication - Applies authentication schemes including Basic and Bearer tokens at the request or collection level.
• Local-Only Variable Storage - Provides local-only storage for environment variables to ensure sensitive credentials never synchronize to the cloud.
• Local Data Processing - Creates local-only environments to ensure sensitive data remains on the local device and does not synchronize.
• Sensitive Variable Redaction - Conceals sensitive variable values using masking and local-only storage to protect secrets.
• Sensitive Data Protection - Protects sensitive data through a combination of variable masking and local-only environment storage.
• SSL Validation Controls - Allows disabling SSL validation for self-signed certificates and toggling automatic redirect following.
• SSL Verification Settings - Allows toggling of automatic redirect behavior and disabling SSL certificate validation for testing purposes.
• Network Behavior Toggles - Provides toggles for SSL certificate validation and automatic redirect behavior for outgoing requests.
• HTTP Transaction Statistics - Displays granular metadata regarding the time and size of an HTTP transaction.
• Connection Settings - Manages network-level settings such as automatic redirect following and SSL certificate validation.
• Request Parameter Configurations - Provides a configuration interface for defining query, form, and path parameters for API requests.
• Request - Saves experimental requests automatically to a private area to keep collections clean.
• API Request Handling - Saves and exports request definitions as JSON files, cURL commands, or CLI snippets.
• Request Cancellation - Executes HTTP calls with the ability to cancel in-progress transactions and analyze response metadata.
• Payload Formatting - Provides tools for prettifying and indenting JSON and GraphQL request bodies to improve readability.
• Body Type Toggling - Allows defining and switching between multiple body formats for a single endpoint without data loss.
• Response Metadata Analysis - Displays time and size metadata for completed requests including performance statistics.
• Request Lifecycle Managers - Manages the request lifecycle, including the ability to cancel active transactions and monitor performance.
• Response Performance Metrics - Displays timing and size statistics for sent requests to analyze server performance.

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