Http Request

HTTP Request

When to Use

• [ ] Call REST APIs (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, PATCH)
• [ ] Test or probe API endpoints
• [ ] Fetch JSON or data from a URL
• [ ] Send request bodies and custom headers

When NOT to Use

• [ ] Web search — use tavily_search (web_search tool)
• [ ] Scraping page content — use web_scraper
• [ ] Simple file downloads — use curl or wget
• [ ] GitHub operations — use github skill

Setup

Install dependency: pip install requests

Usage/Commands

python {skill_path}/request.py URL [options]

| Option | Description | |--------|-------------| | --method GET|POST|PUT|DELETE|PATCH | HTTP method (default: GET) | | --data '{"key": "value"}' | JSON request body | | --header "Name: Value" | Custom header (repeatable) | | --timeout N | Timeout in seconds | | --format text|json|headers | Output format |

Notes

• For APIs requiring auth, use --header "Authorization: Bearer "
• JSON body must be valid; escape quotes properly for shell
• Prefer this for structured API calls; use web_scraper for HTML extraction

Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

• Author: ericwang915
• Source: ericwang915/PythonClaw
• License: MIT
• Homepage: https://github.com/ericwang915/PythonClaw

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.