gURL

I created gURL as a side project while doing a college assignment. I found myself using curl a lot, but it was too verbose and dated for very quick API tests. I was looking for something fast and minimal to get sensible defaults without having to memorize flags and pipe outputs to formatting utilities. Then gURL happened: a modern HTTP client CLI with cleaner syntax, color-coded output and JSON formatting out of the box. I began experimenting with what a curl implementation based in Go might look like with more emphasis on the developer experience all while being lightweight and reliable. I also wanted it to be very easy to share, so I packaged it up and published it using GoReleaser, which made cross platform binaries for macOS, Linux and Windows super easy. What started as something I just wanted to give myself simple utility for has turned into something I thought would be worthy of sharing. So I cleaned things up, added useful features like handling redirects, TLS options, and output to a file and here is gURL today on Product Hunt.