<story><title>Curl vs. Wget</title><url>https://daniel.haxx.se/docs/curl-vs-wget.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>geerlingguy</author><text>Also putting this out there—for nicer REST API interaction on the CLI, and a little more user-friendliness, you might also want to add HTTPie[1] to your toolbelt.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not going to replace curl or wget usage, but it is a nicer interface in certain circumstances.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;jkbrzt&amp;#x2F;httpie&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;jkbrzt&amp;#x2F;httpie&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>timgilbert</author><text>HTTPie is amazing for working with JSON&amp;#x2F;REST interfaces. It&amp;#x27;s really succinct and generally designed with user-friendliness in mind, versus supporting every nook and cranny of the HTTP RFCs. It&amp;#x27;s installable via homebrew for Mac users.&lt;p&gt;Whenever I go back to curl I feel the same minor aggravation I do when moving from homebrew back to apt (want to install? apt-get. Search? apt-cache search. List? dpkg. Remove? apt-get again, for some reason). It&amp;#x27;s just not a very user-friendly CLI and I&amp;#x27;m constantly pulling up the curl man pages.</text></comment>
<story><title>Curl vs. Wget</title><url>https://daniel.haxx.se/docs/curl-vs-wget.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>geerlingguy</author><text>Also putting this out there—for nicer REST API interaction on the CLI, and a little more user-friendliness, you might also want to add HTTPie[1] to your toolbelt.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not going to replace curl or wget usage, but it is a nicer interface in certain circumstances.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;jkbrzt&amp;#x2F;httpie&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;jkbrzt&amp;#x2F;httpie&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Lazare</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been loving HTTPie, and for my somewhat idiosyncratic usage it&amp;#x27;s completely replaced curl and wget.  (Of course, most people probably don&amp;#x27;t spend as much time as me fiddling with poorly documented third party REST APIs.)&lt;p&gt;Also amazing:  jq.</text></comment>