We're releasing a new version of Hurl, a simple HTTP cli tool built on top of libcurl and Rust.

Hurl allows running HTTP requests defined in a plain text format. It can be used to fetch data, or play a scenario (sequence of requests), asserting responses along the way. With its textual format, it is aimed for both devops and developers. With its command-line usage/simple unique binary, it is aimed for both local dev and continuous integration.

An Hurl sample:

  GET https//example.org/books
  
  HTTP/1.1 200
  [Asserts]
  jsonpath "$.validated" == true
  jsonpath "$.books" count == 12
  jsonpath "$.books[2].name" == "Dune"

Since our first "Show HN" submission [1], we have made the following changes:

- full native support on Windows

- improve Hurl file format syntax (with md5, sha1, sha256 asserts for instance)

- add a tutorial on how to use Hurl [2]

- add a simple interactive mode

- a lot of bug fixes!

In our roadmap, we want to have a better support for package manager (brew, apt etc...), better error feedbacks.

We're looking for contributions on improving/correcting our documentation, build an UI client above Hurl, better IDE tooling integration.

And last but not least, we would be happy to have feeback on it!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25655737

[2] https://hurl.dev/docs/tutorial/your-first-hurl-file.html