cURL AlternativesOnly apps categorised as API Clients for Windows

There are many alternatives to cURL for Windows if you are looking for a replacement. The best Windows API Client alternative is Wget, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to cURL and 12 are API Clients available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Windows API Client alternatives to cURL are HTTPie for Terminal, xh, Hurl and HttpMaster.

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  1. Wget icon
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    GNU Wget is a free software package for retrieving files using HTTP(S) and FTP, the most widely-used Internet protocols. It is a non-interactive command line tool, so it may easily be called from scripts, cron jobs, terminals without X-Windows support, etc.

    24 Wget alternatives

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    • Open Source

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  2. HTTPie (pronounced aitch-tee-tee-pie) is a command line HTTP client. Its goal is to make CLI interaction with web services as human-friendly as possible. It provides a simple http command that allows for sending arbitrary HTTP requests using a simple and natural syntax, and...

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  3. xh icon
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    xh is a friendly and fast tool for sending HTTP requests. It reimplements as much as possible of HTTPie's excellent design, with a focus on improved performance.

    30 xh alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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  4. Hurl icon
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    Hurl is a command line tool that runs HTTP requests defined in a simple plain text format. It can capture values, evaluate queries on headers and body response. It is very versatile: it can be used for both fetching data and testing HTTP sessions.

    41 Hurl alternatives

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  5. HttpMaster icon
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    Practical and easy-to-use software tool for testing HTTP applications and services.

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  6.  2 likes

    If you like the interface of HTTPie but miss the features of curl, curlie is what you are searching for. Curlie is a frontend to curl that adds the ease of use of httpie, without compromising on features and performance.

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    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
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    • BSD
     
  7. Kreya icon
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    Kreya is a GUI client for gRPC, REST and WebSocket APIs with innovative features for environments, authorizations and more.

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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  8. httpiness icon
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    Httpiness is aimed to be a simple, straightforward HTTP client which minimizes time to configure, send, reconfigure and resend requests in order to maximize development efficiency.

    59 httpiness alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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  9. Pororoca icon
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    A HTTP inspection tool with support for HTTP/2 and HTTP/3. Alternative to Postman.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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  10. RESTClient can be used to test variety of HTTP communications and RESTful webservices. Friendly GUI, rich functionalities.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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  11. This is a tool to manually explore and test HTTP REST webservices. Runs queries from a plain-text query sheet, displays results as a pretty-printed XML, JSON and even images.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
    • GNU Emacs
     
  12. Lama2 icon
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    Lama2 defines the human-friendly l2 syntax and CLI for describing and executing APIs. Store your APIs in plain-text files. Collaborate with team using version control (say, git). Run Lama2 directly from VSCode extension. Think of Lama2 as Markdown for APIs.

    61 Lama2 alternatives

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