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httpie/cli

Rank not captured·Top 100·All-time stars·◐Cached ranking snapshot·Updated Sep 12, 2026

🥧 HTTPie CLI — modern, user-friendly command-line HTTP client for the API era. JSON support, colors, sessions, downloads, plugins & more.

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First read

Useful directional context, not a final verdict yet

httpie/cli is better read as a directional signal than a clean recommendation. Keep the snapshot conservative and validate source activity, package reality, and close alternatives before committing to it.

Visible

38.5K public stars in the current GitStar snapshot.

Recognizable in the ecosystem

Active

Last commit Dec 17, 2024.

Stale activity

Adopted

Treat stars as discovery context until a linked package appears.

No linked package mapping

Confidence

One or more key signals are partial, so GitStar keeps the interpretation conservative.

Partial snapshot

Snapshot facts

  • 38.5K stars
  • 4K forks
  • Last commit Dec 17, 2024
  • Package usage not mapped yet

Compare lens

apache/apisix and Kong/kong are the closest comparison targets GitStar found. A side-by-side comparison usually tells you more than a single raw rank.

Signal trail

Trajectory

Read the recent motion first. This block is for deciding whether the repository still looks alive, compounding, or flattening before you trust stars alone.

Daily momentum
Recent momentum is not captured
Weekly momentum
Recent momentum is not captured
Monthly momentum
Recent momentum is not captured
Last commit
Dec 17, 2024

Package reality

No linked npm or PyPI package is mapped for this repository yet, so the page leans more heavily on GitHub-visible popularity and should be read more conservatively.

GitStar expects a package signal here, but no npm or PyPI package is linked to this repository yet.

Hype vs Reality
Insufficient Package Data
Package mapping
No linked package yet
Cross-links
Standalone repo read

Validation note

GitStar can summarize public signals for httpie/cli, but the GitHub repository is still the primary place to confirm release cadence, issue activity, and maintainer intent.

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🛡️ Editorial Context

GitStar surfaces public popularity and package signals. These rankings are not endorsements, security reviews, or investment advice.

Why this rank

This repository stands out because it combines stable visibility.

Stable visibility
📈 Momentum & Adoption Signals
Approximate star trajectory

Reconstructed from current stars and cached daily/weekly/monthly deltas.

Now: 38.5K
30d ago7d ago1d agoNow
Daily momentum
No signal
Weekly momentum
No signal
Monthly momentum
No signal
Signal mix (log-scaled for readability)
Current stars38.5K
🧭 Hype vs Reality
Insufficient Package Data

GitStar can see repository momentum, but it does not have a reliable linked package signal yet.

Treat stars and recent movement as discovery context only until npm or PyPI usage is available.

Status
Insufficient Package Data
Package footprint
No linked npm or PyPI usage signal
Method note
This label appears when GitStar cannot find strong enough package telemetry to compare attention against adoption. Compare it against other Python repos before treating stars as a moat.
📐 Read the Hype vs Reality heuristic
Related alternative

apache/apisix

Shares the devops category footprint with httpie/cli, so the comparison is closer to a same-problem decision than a same-language coincidence.

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Kong/kong

Shares the devops category footprint with httpie/cli, so the comparison is closer to a same-problem decision than a same-language coincidence.

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semaphoreui/semaphore

Shares the devops category footprint with httpie/cli, so the comparison is closer to a same-problem decision than a same-language coincidence.

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Related alternative

TencentBlueKing/bk-cmdb

Shares the devops category footprint with httpie/cli, so the comparison is closer to a same-problem decision than a same-language coincidence.

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Cross-links

Compare against related repos

GitStar picked apisix + kong as the closest next comparison from the related repository set.

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Next step after the validation read

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About This Page

This page provides a quick overview of httpie/cli based on GitStar's cached data. The signal chart reconstructs approximate checkpoints from current stars plus cached daily, weekly, and monthly star deltas, so it is best read as directional context rather than as a precise historical audit log.

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