Best CLIs for HTTP & APIs

Official Strapi CLI for creating projects, running Strapi apps, scaffolding API and content-type code, and moving data between environments.

Official Payload CLI for scaffolding projects and running migrations, type generation, job workers, and custom scripts in Payload apps.

CLI for running Insomnia API collections and test suites, linting API specs, and exporting saved design documents.

HTTP client CLI for sending API requests, inspecting responses, and reusing auth, headers, and cookies with sessions.

Official Directus CLI for bootstrapping self-hosted projects, migrating the database, and snapshotting or applying schema.

HTTP load testing CLI for generating controlled traffic and reporting latency, throughput, and error metrics.

HTTP load-testing CLI for sending concurrent requests to a URL and measuring latency, throughput, and status codes.

Run and test HTTP requests defined in a simple plain text format.

gRPC CLI for listing services, describing schemas, and invoking RPC methods with JSON or protobuf text payloads.

HTTP client CLI for sending API requests, inspecting responses, downloading bodies, and reusing state with sessions.

Official Sanity CLI for Studio setup, datasets, documents, schema tooling, deployments, and content platform operations.

Official WordPress command-line interface for core, plugins, themes, config, content, and multisite operations.

HTTP request CLI that keeps curl's option surface while adding HTTPie-style request syntax and terminal-friendly formatting.

Terminal API client for building, sending, and organizing HTTP or WebSocket requests in local collections.

API request runner for `.http` and `.rest` files across HTTP, GraphQL, gRPC, WebSocket, MQTT, and OAuth2 workflows.

Official Twitch CLI for Helix API calls, token workflows, EventSub simulation, and local mock Twitch testing.

Ghost CLI for installing, configuring, updating, backing up, and operating self-hosted Ghost sites.

Official Contentful CLI for spaces, environments, migrations, content imports and exports, and organization checks.

Official HubSpot CLI for HubSpot projects, CMS assets, HubDB tables, test accounts, and developer account workflows.

Official Algolia CLI for searching indices, managing records and settings, and administering search resources from the terminal.