I just want to build requests and read the responses, why the hell does everyone suddenly want me to make an account?

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    6 months ago

    https://curl.se/ has been account free since 1998.

    Never understood why people keep trying to use proprietary tools for this, especially when curl is so good.

    I have a directory of shell scripts I use to test out endpoints. I persist request/response data either with environment variables or regular files. Oh and since these are just shell scripts, it’s pretty trivial to do stuff like iterate over a CSV (or JSON array) and make a request for each row, conditionally make requests, or whatever else you want.

    Oh and honorable mention goes to jo and jq for making it super easy to make/process JSON data.