Resto - A CLI app can send pretty HTTP & API requests with TUI.

Resto

abdfnx / resto

🔗 Send pretty HTTP & API requests with TUI.

A CLI app can send pretty HTTP & API requests with TUI.

Installation

Using script

• Shell

curl -fsSL https://git.io/resto | bash

• PowerShell

iwr -useb https://git.io/resto-win | iex

then restart your powershell

Go package manager

go install github.com/abdfnx/resto@latest

GitHub CLI

gh extension install abdfnx/gh-resto

Via Docker

docker run -it restohq/resto <CMD>

full container:

docker run -it restohq/resto-full

Usage

• Open Resto UI

resto

• Send a request to a URL

resto get https://api.github.com

• Send a request to a URL and use resto editor

resto post https://localhost:3000/v1/login --content-type json --editor

• Read Body from stdin

cat schema.graphql | resto post https://api.spacex.land/graphql --content-type graphql --body-stdin

• Use Authentecation with Basic Auth or Bearer Token

# Bearer Token
resto delete https://api.secman.dev/api/logins/13 --content-type json --token TOKEN

# Basic Auth
resto delete https://api.secman.dev/api/logins/13 --content-type json --username USERNAME --password PASSWORD

• Save response to a file

resto get http://localhost:3333/api/v1/hello --save response.json

• Install binary app from script URL and run it.

resto install https://yarnpkg.com/install.sh
resto i https://get.docker.com

• Send a request from Restofile

resto run

# from path
resto run --file ./examples/restofile/basic_request/Restofile

• Get the latest release/tag from repository ```bash

resto get-latest abdfnx/resto

use another registry

resto get-latest 23028539 --registry gitlab.com

with access token

resto get-latest spittet/node-postgresql --registry bitbucket.org --token YOUR-ACCESS-TOKEN

### Flags

1. `GET` & `HEAD` flags

-H, --headers Just show the response headers
-j, --just-body Just show the response body
-p, --password string The password to use for basic authentication
-s, --save string Save the response body to a file
-t, --token string The bearer token to use for authentication
-u, --username string The username to use for basic authentication

2. `POST`, `PUT`, `PATCH`, `DELETE` flags

-b, --body string The body of the request
-i, --body-stdin Read the body from stdin
-c, --content-type string The content type of the body
-e, --editor Open the editor to edit the body
-H, --headers Just show the response headers
-j, --just-body Just show the response body
-p, --password string The password to use for basic authentication
-s, --save string Save the response to a file
-t, --token string The bearer token to use for authentication
-u, --username string The username to use for basic authentication

3. `install` command flags

-H, --hidden hide the output
-s, --shell string shell to use default: bash

4. `run` command flags

-a, --all Show all response headers & status
-f, --file string Path to Restofile (Default: PATH/Restofile)

5. `get-latest` command flags

-r, --registry string The registry to use
-t, --token string The access token to use it the registry requires authentication

### Shortcuts

- <kbd>Ctrl+P</kbd>: **Open Resto Panel**
- <kbd>Ctrl+H</kbd>: **Open Help Guide**
- <kbd>Ctrl+S</kbd>: **Save Request Body**
- <kbd>Ctrl+Q</kbd>: **Quit**

## Documentation

Refer to our [**Wiki**](https://github.com/abdfnx/resto/wiki) for the documentation.

> thank you for your time and don't forgot to star the repo if you like it

Comments

[chandragie]

Does the theming works? I tried and however catppuccin messed up with the request form fields. Want to change the theme but wiki does not provide anything