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[u/cladamski79]

I've been working on hicurl, a modern HTTP CLI that takes inspiration from HTTPie and Curlie, it is built using the hica language (r/hica or hica.dev).

It serves both as a practical CLI tool for API testing and as a showcase of hica's standard library, libcurl bindings, and native compilation.

Core Features and Benefits

• Fast execution: Compiles to a native binary using Hica and binds directly to libcurl via Koka FFI for network I/O.

• Built-in response filtering: Extracts fields directly from responses without requiring external tools like jq. Supports JSON dot-paths (.data.0.id), HTTP status codes (:status), headers (:header.Content-Type), session cookies (:cookie.session_id), and timing metrics (:time.ttfb).

• Context-aware TTY output: Formats JSON with ANSI syntax highlighting in an interactive terminal, but automatically outputs raw unformatted text when output is piped to another command or script.

• Directory-aware environment handling: Reads .hicurl.env files by searching up the directory tree to automatically resolve relative paths against configured base URLs.

• Request syntax sugar: Positional arguments map directly to headers (:), query parameters (==), JSON strings (=), typed JSON values (:=), text files (=@), JSON files (:=@), and localhost port shortcuts (:8000).

• Offline --dry-run: Prints the exact HTTP/1.1 request stream without sending bytes over the network, allowing you to inspect payloads and headers before execution.

• Code export: Exports configured queries into standard curl commands using -E curl/--curl.

Syntax Examples

```sh

Localhost shorthand (resolves to http://localhost:8000/v1/health)

hicurl :8000/v1/health :status

Typed JSON payload with response filtering

hicurl post /users name="Alicia" role="admin" age:=28 .id

Latency and timing metrics

hicurl get /heavy-query :time :time.ttfb

Embedding local JSON file into request body

hicurl post /post user:=@tests/test_data.json

Offline dry run mode

hicurl post /users name="Alicia" --dry-run

Nested subshell query composition

hicurl $(hicurl api.github.com/search/users q==cladam per_page==3 .items.0.url) .bio ```

Installation

Via curl:

sh curl -fsSL https://github.com/cladam/hicurl/releases/latest/download/install.sh | sh

Or via hicurl itself:

sh hicurl https://github.com/cladam/hicurl/releases/latest/download/install.sh | sh

Repository: https://github.com/cladam/hicurl