Restish

restish Plugin

CLI for interacting with REST-ish APIs. A user-friendly HTTP client with built-in API schema discovery, JSON navigation, and convenient resource management.

Commands

API Requests

• restish api get — Send GET request to API
• restish api post — Send POST request to API

Utility

• restish _ _ — Passthrough to restish CLI

Usage Examples

• "Send GET request to API"
• "POST data to endpoint"
• "Test REST API"
• "API client from CLI"

Installation

brew install restish

Or via Go:

go install github.com/rest-sh/restish@latest

Examples

# GET request
restish api get https://api.example.com/users

# GET with query params
restish api get /users --query page=1 --query limit=10

# POST request
restish api post /users --body '{"name":"John"}'

# With custom headers
restish api get /users --header "Authorization: Bearer token"

# Any restish command with passthrough
restish _ _ get https://api.example.com
curl _ _ post /items --body '{"key":"value"}'

Key Features

• Schema - OpenAPI discovery
• Auto-complete - Shell completion
• JSON - JSON navigation
• Resources - Resource management
• Auth - Authentication helpers
• Headers - Custom headers
• History - Request history
• Export - Export to curl
• Pretty - Pretty printing
• Colors - Syntax highlighting

Notes

• Supports OpenAPI schemas
• Great for API exploration
• Shell auto-completion
• Human-friendly output