hurl to test HTTP APIs

June 13, 2025

hurl

a command line tool to test with curl, input from files and output to a report. see https://hurl.dev/

start hurl
hurl .\regele.org.hurl --report-html .
regele.org.hurl
GET https://www.regele.org
User-Agent: hurl-by-manfred
HTTP 200
[Asserts]
body contains "Platzhalter"
duration < 1000
[Captures]
cert_subject: certificate "Subject"
cert_issuer: certificate "Issuer"
my_body: body

pro * nice and easy * html report for free * tinkering with calls is simple

cons * not scriptable, so with limits * I wish they would include actual raw request and result into the reporting