🏓 raquest

Raquest is a batteries-excluded command-line HTTP client. No monthly subscriptions or two minute ads to send requests, just run raq <query>.raq and move on with your life.

Features

.raq files

Requests are stored written in '.raq' files and resemble curl commands in bash scripts. The files consist of sections defining the request, its headers, its json payload, and assertions, which assert certain attributes of the repsonse. View these sections in action in the examples or conceptually below:

[request]

[request]
POST https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts

The [request] section is generally found at the top of the file and defines the HTTP method and the target url.

[headers]

[headers]
Authorization: Bearer exampletoken12345
Content-Type: application/json
Custom-Header: custom_value

The [headers] section defines key-value header pairs.

[body]

[body]
{
  "title": "foo",
  "age": 30,
  "isActive": true,
  "description": "here is the description"
}

The [body] section contains the request payload; its type is inferred from the Content-Type header in the [headers] section.

[assertions]

[assertions]
status: 201, 303
json_field: title ^foo$
json_field: age 30
json_field: isActive true
json_field: description here is the description

[assertions] is an optional section that allows you to assert certain attributes of your request's response.

Todos for v1

• support all request types
• support json in files
• support for headers
• cookies
• suggestive parser errors
• lsp
• support xml, plain, form, multipart, encoded
• good parser coverage
• mocked libcurl/fake server
• honorable usage docs
• decent contrib docs
• logging
• assertions
• build & test ci on linux, win, macos

Development

Dependencies

• cmake 3.24+
• g++ 14

Running Tests

mkdir -p build \
cd build \
cmake .. \
cmake --build . \
ctest

Clangd Setup

cmake -S . -B build -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -DCMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS=1