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Problem

How to use the xh command: Friendly and fast tool for sending HTTP requests. Note: xh, written in rust, serves as an effective drop-in replacement for http. See also: http, curl. More information: <https://github.com/ducaale/xh#usage>.

Solution

xh — Friendly and fast tool for sending HTTP requests. Note: xh, written in rust, serves as an effective drop-in replacement for http. See also: http, curl. More information: <https://github.com/ducaale/xh#usage>.

Send a GET request (shows response headers and content):

xh {{https://postman-echo.com/get}}

Send a POST request with a JSON body (key-value pairs are added to a top-level JSON object - e.g. {"name": "john", "age": 25}):

xh post {{https://postman-echo.com/post}} {{name=john}} {{age=25}}

Send a GET request with query parameters (e.g. <https://postman-echo.com/response-headers?foo1=bar1&foo2=bar2>):

xh get {{https://postman-echo.com/response-headers}} {{foo1==bar1}} {{foo2==bar2}}

Send a GET request with a custom header:

xh get {{https://postman-echo.com}} {{header-name:header-value}}

Make a GET request and save the response body to a file:

xh {{[-d|--download]}} {{https://example.com}} {{[-o|--output]}} {{path/to/file}}

Construct a request but do not send it (similar to a dry-run):

xh --offline {{get|delete|...}} {{https://example.com}}

Show equivalent curl command (this will not send any request):

xh --{{curl|curl-long}} {{--follow --verbose get https://example.com user-agent:curl}}

Code Snippets

Send a GET request (shows response headers and content)

xh {{https://postman-echo.com/get}}

Send a POST request with a JSON body (key-value pairs are added to a top-level JSON object - e.g. `{"name": "john", "age": 25}`)

xh post {{https://postman-echo.com/post}} {{name=john}} {{age=25}}

Send a GET request with query parameters (e.g. <https://postman-echo.com/response-headers?foo1=bar1&foo2=bar2>)

xh get {{https://postman-echo.com/response-headers}} {{foo1==bar1}} {{foo2==bar2}}

Send a GET request with a custom header

xh get {{https://postman-echo.com}} {{header-name:header-value}}

Make a GET request and save the response body to a file

xh {{[-d|--download]}} {{https://example.com}} {{[-o|--output]}} {{path/to/file}}

Context

tldr-pages: common/xh

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