Http Request Creator:

##What is it ?

It's a tool which allows you to create custom HTTP requests, allows easy edition of the URL & its query parameters, allows the addition of custom request headers and request body content, and allows viewing of the response, manipulation (Such as extracting content from HTML with a JQuery-Style CSS selector or a regex,), either as HTML, raw text, or code, a well as saving to file. Note that it's woefully incomplete, and most stuff does not work yet.

##What's it for ?

You can:

Build and test web scrapers, as it lets you download HTML pages and run CSS selectors or regexes on them.
Test REST APIs
View the source HTML of webpages, JavaScript, and CSS files - there's a code formatter / prettyprinter built in (based on Google code prettify), as well a deminifier (both not really complete or working yet though)
Automate things, such as logging into a website and fetching a specific piece of information.
A ton of other stuff, whatever you can think of :-)

Features

###What works:

Edit the URL for your request, add / edit / remove / view query parameters and paths segments, and it does the URL encoding for you.
Edit the Headers for your outgoing request, add headers (has autocomplete), view & remove.
View the HTTP headers of the response
View the response body as plaintext, rendered / formatted HTML, prettified code, and other options.
Extract text and HTML from the response body text (If it's HTML) using a JQuery style CSS selector (Uses Jsoup under the hood).

###What doesn't work yet and needs to be implemented:

UI is big, and only suitable for tablets
Adding request body, at the moment the "Add request body" screen does nothing
Regex extract and truncate the response body feature
Some of the other options for viewing / modifying / saving the response.
Help is missing
Settings / Options is missing
Lots of UI controls don't do anything yet.
Loading webpages and intercepting / viewing assets and ajax requests they make.
A whole lot of other stuff.
(Code is somewhat messy and needs some refactoring.)

##Compiling:

Just import the project into Android Studio and hit "Run". Uses Jsoup and OkHttp as dependencies, Android Studio will fetch them automatically.

If you can help improving / completing it, please do !

Screenshots:

Main Screen:

URL & query parameter editor:

Dialog to extract text from the response with a CSS selector:

More screenshots can be found in the screenshots directory.

About

Licence is GPLv2+, see the LICENCE file:

Note: Don't use or modify my code unless you can comply with the license, and release the source code of your modifications where necessary. I don't want to see my hard work end up in some commercial app. Thanks.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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JonasCz/HttpTool