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by petepete 3079 days ago
True. But for those of us who work with JSON APIs more-often-than-not it's very good. Being able to simply pipe in a file as a payload saves me a lot of time.

I know cURL does 1001 other things too, so the two tools aren't really in competition. HTTPie is more akin to Postman or Insomnia.

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Use the "jq" command line tool to format json output. It's a life changer.

curl 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/LearnWebCode/json-example/... | jq '.'