Show HN: Hurl, test APIs with plain text and libcurl

Hi,

We're happy to release a new version of Hurl [1]. Hurl is a command line tool powered by curl, that runs HTTP requests defined in a simple plain text format:

  # Get home:
  GET https://example.org
  
  HTTP/1.1 200
  [Captures]
  csrf_token: xpath "string(//meta[@name='_csrf_token']/@content)"

  # Do login!
  POST https://example.org/login?user=toto&password=1234
  X-CSRF-TOKEN: 

  HTTP/1.1 302

Hurl can be used to get data like curl, or as an integration testing tool for JSON/XML HTTP apis / HTML content. Requests can be chained, and one can add asserts on response headers, cookies and body.

For instance:

  GET https://example.org/order
  screencapability: low

  HTTP/1.1 200
  [Asserts]
  jsonpath "$.validated" == true
  jsonpath "$.userInfo.lastName" == "Herbert"
  jsonpath "$.hasDevice" == false
  jsonpath "$.links" count == 12
  jsonpath "$.order" matches /^order-\d{8}$/

You can see more samples in the documentation [2].

We've designed Hurl to be easily integrated in CI/CD (GitHub, GitLab), and its text format can be used as a documentation, commited in a repo etc... It's a single binary written in Rust, that is powered by libcurl under the hood, for a fast CLI tool for both devops and developers.

In this new version, we've added the following improvements:

- verbose output: add more color to Hurl --verbose output, and also added --very-verbose option to output request and response bodies

- request options: command-line options such as --location (follow HTTP redirection), --verbose, --insecure etc... can now be applied to a particular request with an [Options] sections

- and more, see here for a quick tout of 1.7.0 [3]

[1] https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource/hurl

[2] https://hurl.dev/docs/samples.html

[3] https://hurl.dev/blog/2022/09/15/announcing-hurl-1.7.0.html

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