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cURL: Command Line Tool and Library for Transferring Data With URLs. Used in command lines or scripts to transfer data. It is also used in cars, television sets, routers, printers, audio equipment, mobile phones, tablets, and is the internet transfer backbone for thousands of software applications affecting billions of humans daily; HTTPie: A command line HTTP client. It is a Modern command line HTTP client – user-friendly curl alternative with intuitive UI, JSON support, syntax highlighting, wget-like downloads, extensions, etc.

cURL and HTTPie belong to "File Transfer" category of the tech stack.

cURL and HTTPie are both open source tools. HTTPie with 42.6K GitHub stars and 2.8K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than cURL with 14.3K GitHub stars and 3.13K GitHub forks.

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What is cURL?

Used in command lines or scripts to transfer data. It is also used in cars, television sets, routers, printers, audio equipment, mobile phones, tablets, and is the internet transfer backbone for thousands of software applications affecting billions of humans daily.

What is HTTPie?

It is a Modern command line HTTP client – user-friendly curl alternative with intuitive UI, JSON support, syntax highlighting, wget-like downloads, extensions, etc

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What are some alternatives to cURL and HTTPie?

Postman

It is the only complete API development environment, used by nearly five million developers and more than 100,000 companies worldwide.

Flurl

It is a modern, fluent, asynchronous, testable, portable, buzzword-laden URL builder and HTTP client library for .NET.

FileZilla

It is a powerful and free software for transferring files over the Internet. It is a very popular FTP client and is used by webmasters from all over the world.

WinSCP

It is a popular SFTP client and FTP client for Microsoft Windows. Copy file between a local computer and remote servers using FTP, FTPS, SCP, SFTP, WebDAV or S3 file transfer protocols.

Cyberduck

It is a libre server and cloud storage browser for Mac and Windows with support for FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, Amazon S3, OpenStack Swift, Backblaze B2, Microsoft Azure & OneDrive, Google Drive and Dropbox.

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