Resto — a CLI app can send pretty HTTP & API requests with TUI

Abdfnabd
2 min readDec 12, 2021

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a CLI app can send pretty HTTP & API requests with TUI.

Installation

Using script

  • Shell
curl -fsSL https://git.io/resto | bash
  • PowerShell
iwr -useb https://git.io/resto-win | iex

then restart your powershell

Go package manager

go install github.com/abdfnx/resto@latest

GitHub CLI

gh extension install abdfnx/gh-resto

Usage

  • Open Resto UI
resto
  • Send a request to a URL
resto get https://api.github.com
  • Send a request to a URL and use resto editor
resto post https://https://localhost:3000/v1/login — content-type json --editor
  • Read Body from stdin
cat schema.graphql | resto post https://api.spacex.land/graphql —content-type graphql — body-stdin
  • Use Authentecation with Basic Auth or Bearer Token
# Bearer Token
resto delete https://api.secman.dev/api/logins/13 — content-type json — token TOKEN
# Basic Auth
resto delete https://api.secman.dev/api/logins/13 — content-type json — username USERNAME — password PASSWORD
  • Save response to a file
resto get http://localhost:3333/api/v1/hello — save response.json

Flags

GET & HEAD flags

-H, --headers           Just show the response headers
-j, --just-body Just show the response body
-p, --password string The password to use for basic authentication
-s, --save string Save the response body to a file
-t, --token string The bearer token to use for authentication
-u, --username string The username to use for basic authentication

POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE flags

-b, --body string           The body of the request
-i, --body-stdin Read the body from stdin
-c, --content-type string The content type of the body
-e, --editor Open the editor to edit the body
-H, --headers Just show the response headers
-j, --just-body Just show the response body
-p, --password string The password to use for basic authentication
-s, --save string Save the response to a file
-t, --token string The bearer token to use for authentication
-u, --username string The username to use for basic authentication

Documentation

Refer to resto website for the documentation. Or you can check out the Wiki.

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Written by Abdfnabd

someone likes CLI/TUI apps, automation, server-sides, and backend.

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