Features

A full tour of everything apix can do — straight from your terminal.

HTTP methods

apix supports all standard HTTP methods: GET, POST, PUT, PATCH and DELETE.

Press m at any time to cycle through methods. The active method is displayed as a color-coded badge in the persistent URL bar at the top of the interface.

Query params & headers

Query params

Switch to the Params tab (1) in the Request panel to manage inline key=value pairs.

Headers

Switch to the Headers tab (2) to add, edit or remove HTTP headers. The same key bindings apply.

Common headers like Content-Type: application/json are set automatically when sending a JSON body.

Body editor

Switch to the Body tab (3) to write a request body. The editor supports:

• Multi-line input — Enter inserts a new line with auto-indent
• 2-space indent — Tab inserts two spaces
• JSON formatting — Ctrl+f auto-formats the content as pretty-printed JSON
• Save & exit — Esc saves the body and returns to the panel

Example body:

{
  "name": "Alice",
  "email": "alice@example.com",
  "role": "admin"
}

Authentication

Switch to the Auth tab (4) to configure authentication. Three modes are available:

Authentication is applied automatically to every request once configured.

Environments

Environments let you define named variables and switch between them (e.g. dev vs prod).

Press e to open the Environments drawer. From there you can:

• Create a new environment with n
• Activate an environment with Enter
• Add / edit variables with v then a
• Delete an environment with d

Use variables in the URL bar with double curly braces:

https://{{base_url}}/users/{{user_id}}

When an environment is active, variables are substituted before the request is sent. The active environment is shown in the top-right of the URL bar as [ENV:name].

Collections

Collections let you save requests and reload them later without re-typing the URL, method, headers and body.

Press c to open the Collections drawer:

History

Every request you send is automatically logged. Press h to open the History drawer.

The history persists across sessions and is stored locally at ~/.apix/history.json.

Response viewer

After sending a request, the Response panel displays:

• Status code — colour-coded (green for 2xx, red for 4xx/5xx)
• Method and elapsed time

Three tabs are available:

Additional actions in the response panel:

Cookies are persistent across requests within the same session.