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Comment by itsmemattchung | Hacker News Reader

I refer to HTTP Status codes all the time throughout the day and use Python's built-in http library:

  >>> from http import HTTPStatus
  >>> HTTPStatus.OK
  <HTTPStatus.OK: 200>
  >>> HTTPStatus(404)
  <HTTPStatus.NOT_FOUND: 404>

Nice.

.bashrc:

httpcode () { python3 -c "from http import HTTPStatus; print(HTTPStatus($1))" }

Or even:

HTTPStatus($1).name.title().replace('_',' ')

Here's a simple CLI interface to Python's HTTP status codes: