[](https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource/hurl/actions) [](https://hurl.dev) # What's Hurl? Hurl is a command line tool that performs HTTP requests defined in a simple plain text format. It can perform requests, capture values and evaluate queries on headers and body response. Hurl is very versatile: it can be used for both fetching data and testing HTTP sessions. ```hurl # Get home: GET https://example.net HTTP/1.1 200 [Captures] csrf_token: xpath "string(//meta[@name='_csrf_token']/@content)" # Do login! POST https://example.net/login?user=toto&password=1234 X-CSRF-TOKEN: {{csrf_token}} HTTP/1.1 302 ``` Chaining multiple requests is easy: ```hurl GET https://api.example.net/health GET https://api.example.net/health GET https://api.example.net/health GET https://api.example.net/health ``` # Also an HTTP Test Tool Hurl can run HTTP requests but can also be used to test HTTP responses. Different type of queries and predicates are supported, from [XPath](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XPath) and [JSONPath](https://goessner.net/articles/JsonPath/) on body response, to assert on status code and response headers. ```hurl GET https://example.net HTTP/1.1 200 [Asserts] xpath "normalize-space(//head/title)" equals "Hello world!" ``` It is well adapted for REST/json apis ```hurl POST https://api.example.net/tests { "id": "456", "evaluate": true } HTTP/1.1 200 [Asserts] jsonpath "$.status" equals "RUNNING" # Check the status code jsonpath "$.tests" countEquals 25 # Check the number of items ``` and even SOAP apis ```hurl POST https://example.net/InStock Content-Type: application/soap+xml; charset=utf-8 SOAPAction: "http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope" GOOG HTTP/1.1 200 ``` # Documentation Visit the [Hurl web site](https://hurl.dev) to find out how to install and use Hurl. - [Installation](https://hurl.dev/docs/installation.html) - [Samples](https://hurl.dev/docs/samples.html) - [File Format](https://hurl.dev/docs/entry.html) # Samples ## Getting Data A simple GET: ```hurl GET https://example.net ``` [Doc](https://hurl.dev/docs/request.html#method) A simple GET with headers: ```hurl GET https://example.net/news User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:70.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/70.0 Accept: */* Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br Connection: keep-alive ``` [Doc](https://hurl.dev/docs/request.html#headers) ### Query Params ```hurl GET https://example.net/news User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:70.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/70.0 [QueryStringParams] order: newest search: something to search count: 100 ``` Or: ```hurl GET https://example.net/news?order=newest&search=something%20to%20search&count=100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:70.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/70.0 ``` [Doc](https://hurl.dev/docs/request.html#query-parameters) ## Sending Data ### Sending HTML Form Datas ```hurl POST https://example.net/contact [FormParams] default: false token: {{token}} email: john.doe@rookie.org number: 33611223344 ``` [Doc](https://hurl.dev/docs/request.html#form-parameters) ### Sending Multipart Form Datas ```hurl POST https://example.net/upload [MultipartFormData] field1: value1 field2: file,example.txt; # On can specify the file content type: field3: file,example.zip; application/zip ``` [Doc](https://hurl.dev/docs/request.html#multipart-form-data) ### Posting a JSON Body With an inline JSON: ```hurl POST https://api.example.net/tests { "id": "456", "evaluate": true } ``` [Doc](https://hurl.dev/docs/request.html#json-body) With a local file: ```hurl POST https://api.example.net/tests Content-Type: application/json file,data.json; ``` [Doc](https://hurl.dev/docs/request.html#file-body) ### Templating a JSON/XML Body Using templates with [JSON body](https://hurl.dev/docs/request.html#json-body) or [XML body](https://hurl.dev/docs/request.html#xml-body) is not currently supported in Hurl. Besides, you can use templates in [raw string body](https://hurl.dev/docs/request.html#raw-string-body) with variables to send a JSON or XML body: ~~~hurl PUT https://api.example.net/hits Content-Type: application/json ``` { "key0": "{{a_string}}", "key1": {{a_bool}}, "key2": {{a_null}}, "key3": {{a_number}} } ``` ~~~ Variables can be initialized via command line: ```bash $ hurl --variable key0=apple --variable key1=true --variable key2=null --variable key3=42 test.hurl ``` Resulting in a PUT request with the following JSON body: ``` { "key0": "apple", "key1": true, "key2": null, "key3": 42 } ``` [Doc](https://hurl.dev/docs/request.html#raw-string-body) ## Testing Response ### Testing REST Apis ```hurl GET https//example.org/order screencapability: low HTTP/1.1 200 [Asserts] jsonpath "$.validated" equals true jsonpath "$.userInfo.firstName" equals "Franck" jsonpath "$.userInfo.lastName" equals "Herbert" jsonpath "$.hasDevice" equals false jsonpath "$.links" countEquals 12 ``` [Doc](https://hurl.dev/docs/asserting-response.html#jsonpath-assert) ### Testing HTML Response ```hurl GET https://example.com HTTP/1.1 200 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 [Asserts] xpath "string(/html/head/title)" contains "Example" # Check title xpath "count(//p)" equals 2 # Check the number of p xpath "//p" countEquals 2 # Similar assert for p xpath "boolean(count(//h2))" equals false # Check there is no h2 xpath "//h2" not exists # Similar assert for h2 ``` [Doc](https://hurl.dev/docs/asserting-response.html#xpath-assert) ## Others ### Using SOAP Apis ```hurl POST https://example.net/InStock Content-Type: application/soap+xml; charset=utf-8 SOAPAction: "http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope" GOOG HTTP/1.1 200 ``` [Doc](https://hurl.dev/docs/request.html#xml-body) ### Capturing and Using a CSRF Token ```hurl GET https://example.net HTTP/* 200 [Captures] csrf_token: xpath "string(//meta[@name='_csrf_token']/@content)" POST https://example.net/login?user=toto&password=1234 X-CSRF-TOKEN: {{csrf_token}} HTTP/* 302 ``` [Doc](https://hurl.dev/docs/capturing-response.html#xpath-capture) # Feedbacks Hurl is still in beta, any feedback, suggestion, bugs or improvements are welcome. ```hurl POST https://hurl.dev/api/feedback { "name": "John Doe", "feedback": "Hurl is awesome !" } HTTP/1.1 200 ```