Hurl: a friendly CLI companion for your web request tests

Kevin Tewouda
9 min readMay 24, 2023

An alternative to Postman

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There are excellent solutions that exist to test web applications and APIs. To name just a few: Selenium, Playwright, Postman, and Hoppscotch. They work well, if you are satisfied with that, you may not need to read the rest of this article. But if you are a die-hard CLI (Command Line Interface) lover or just curious, you may be happy to…

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Kevin Tewouda

Déserteur camerounais résidant désormais en France. Passionné de programmation, sport, de cinéma et mangas. J’écris en français et en anglais dû à mes origines.