Introduction

The <span>restclient</span> in Emacs has been archived and is no longer maintained, so we need to look for other packages to replace it.

After some searching, I found that federicotdn/verb: HTTP client for Emacs^[1] is quite good and also supports <span>org babel</span>.

Installation

(use-package verb
  :init (cl-pushnew '(verb . t) load-language-list)
  :config (define-key org-mode-map (kbd "C-c C-r") verb-command-map))

Usage

<span>Verb</span> supports two methods. The first method is to add the <span>Verb</span> tag to a headline in Org Mode.

* Http request :verb:
get https://httpbin.org/get
Accept: application/json

Note that when using this method, there should be no indentation. I spent a long time figuring this out; otherwise, using <span>x-www-form-urlencoded</span> would cause issues.

The second method is to use <span>org babel</span>.

#+begin_src verb
get https://httpbin.org/get
Accept: application/json
#+end_src

After execution, the response is as follows:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2025 12:52:51 GMT
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 293
Connection: keep-alive
Server: gunicorn/19.9.0
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true

{
"args": {},
"headers": {
    "Accept": "application/json",
    "Accept-Encoding": "gzip",
    "Host": "httpbin.org",
    "Mime-Version": "1.0",
    "X-Amzn-Trace-Id": "Root=1-67e155a1-19b45d090d39dd3a02fe2b2c"
  },
"origin": "...",
"url": "https://httpbin.org/get"
}

Export

<span>Verb</span> also has a very attractive feature, which is support for exporting to <span>curl</span>, as shown below:

#+begin_src verb :op export curl

#+end_src

Conclusion

<span>Verb</span> is quite similar to <span>restclient</span>, with no significant switching costs, and it also supports exporting, making it a good choice.

References[1]

federicotdn/verb: HTTP client for Emacs: https://github.com/federicotdn/verb?tab=readme-ov-file

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