Whats up, API World! We’re again with a brand new launch of HTTPie for Internet & Desktop, the API testing shopper that you simply’ll take pleasure in utilizing. Final time, we hinted at extra instruments for navigating and processing information. And that’s been our theme for this launch. Take a look at what we shipped in v2022.15.0👇
🔖 Abstract
🔦 Filter, rework and analyze structured information
We’ve just lately launched textual content search that will help you navigate massive messages. Textual content search is obtainable in every single place within the app as a common method to navigate textual content material.
When speaking to APIs, although, you typically cope with structured information like JSON, XML, and HTML. The express construction of those codecs unlocks extra, extra highly effective methods of navigating and processing the info they comprise.
On this launch, we targeted on making the most of that and added the power to filter structured codecs utilizing numerous question languages. With filtering, you possibly can rapidly analyze, rework, and selectively extract information from structured paperwork with out leaving HTTPie.
The next information codecs and question languages are actually obtainable:
Activate the filter discipline through a keyboard shortcut when the textarea is targeted (macOS: ⇧⌘F; Home windows & Linux: ⇧⌃F) or use the “Filter” merchandise within the panel’s menu.
Information filtering is obtainable in every single place the place structured information can seem: within the preview and the request and response panels. To filter the request physique information you’re enhancing, open the preview panel and activate the filter there. The preview reveals the efficient request physique with all variables already substituted, which permits extra strong filtering.
Information filtering and textual content looking out are unbiased options. You possibly can, for instance, filter a large JSON response and nonetheless search contained in the filtered output. To do this, merely open each the filter discipline (⇧⌘F) and the textual content search discipline (⌘F).
This characteristic is a part of a theme of creating information straightforward to course of and digest, and we’ll proceed so as to add extra methods to rework and visualize information.
🔣 Improve your searches by RegExp
Common expressions (aka RegExp) are a strong software for trying to find patterns in textual content, and now you should utilize them in HTTPie as effectively.
🔀 Search & exchange within the request physique
Any request physique must be comfortably editable instantly in HTTPie, regardless of how massive. The brand new means to go looking & exchange is one other step in that course!
Activate the search discipline through a keyboard shortcut when the textarea is targeted (macOS: ⌘F; Home windows & Linux: ⌃F), and take a look at the brand new changing choices. Both exchange the occurrences one after the other or suddenly — as much as you!
When looking out utilizing a RegExp, you possibly can reference matching teams utilizing the dollar-group-number syntax, the place $0 references the entire match, $1 is the primary group, and so on.
✨ Different enhancements and bug fixes
- When the response physique preview is lively, and also you invoke search or filter, we robotically flip the preview off so you possibly can function on the uncooked physique.
- The app now makes use of darkish mode for the UI by default. No worries, you possibly can nonetheless change it again to the system or gentle one through the settings (⌘,) if that’s what you like.
- All keyboard shortcuts would repeat throughout an extended press. We’ve now streamlined it in order that, for instance, holding ⌘↩ outcomes solely into one request.
- Now we warn you if you attain or method the utmost variable identify character restrict.
- We’ve fastened a bug that generally led to 100% CPU utilization with many tabs open.
📢 Assist needed: groups and collaboration
Like with scrumptious pies, we imagine the magic of HTTPie could be greatest skilled when shared with others. 😋
We’ve been heads down engaged on a multiplayer mode for some time now. Groups and collaboration are a number of the most fun and requested options on our roadmap. We will’t wait to see what form they’ll take and all of the alternatives they unlock for our customers.
In case you’re as excited as we’re, or the other, we’d love to speak to you! We wish to guarantee we’re constructing the precise factor, and your assist could be vastly appreciated & swag-rewarded!
As a begin, you possibly can assist us by finishing a fast survey. Then, should you’re up for it, we’d be delighted to interview you over Zoom.
Get in contact, and assist form the perfect collaborative API expertise! 💪
