A Scripting Language for HTTP

[andreineculau]

KATT does a few more things (since it's goal is testing HTTP), but I've used it also for scripting purposes. The syntax is 99% plain HTTP syntax.

https://github.com/for-GET/katt

[jimjag]

Yet another Github project that could be useful, except that there is no explicit license. Which means it's under traditional copyright.

[rmc]

Not quite. Since it's on GitHub, the terms and conditions for uploading, means that github users have the permission to view and fork the repository. https://help.github.com/articles/open-source-licensing/

[thephyber]

No longer an issue. MIT License.

https://github.com/Max00355/HTTPLang/blob/master/LICENSE.md

[baldfat]

https://help.github.com/articles/open-source-licensing/

[WormyMcSquirmy]

So raise a pull request to add one.

[_druu]

https://github.com/jkbrzt/httpie

[baldfat]

Creating this Language in Racket would be the best option IMHO. Racket was made for specifically this reason.

http://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/languages.html

[max0563]

Author here, I am currently looking for someone who would be interested in improving and maintaining this project. I have been trying but I don't really have time due to work and other things happening in my life. I would like to see HTTPLang grow,and it seems like there is some interest in the community. If anyone is interested send me an email at [email protected]

[bmn_]

This is reinventing https://metacpan.org/release/webchat

You should just give up.

[ufo]

I'm curious why this was made into a scripting language instead of into a regular Python library. It it were regular Python you would get tons of features for free like loops, functions, if statements, etc.

[leftnode]

Because then you'd just have Requests and normal Python which it sounds like the author wanted to avoid.

[JimDabell]

Previous discussion on Hacker News:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9598443

[swalsh]

One problem i've had using python to script loading pages, is sometimes other pages you need things from load in frames based on a javascript load functions. PhantomJS solves this by emulating the browser... of course then you have to do everything in javascript.

[nkozyra]

Sure, but the JS you need is incredibly minimal and you can easily transport Phantom's output to whatever other application you can dream of.

I've seen a lot of headless apps outside of Phantom, but none of them work well enough for me to ditch the system above (Phantom :: Message Queue :: Other App).