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HTTP Request Shortcuts

Submit HTTP Requests from Shortcuts on your Home Screen
Version: 3.26.0
Added: 07-09-2020
Updated: 08-03-2025
Place shortcuts (widgets) on your home screen to submit HTTP requests to all your favorite RESTful APIs, webservices and other URL resources. Great for home automation projects!
  • HTTP and HTTPS
  • GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, PATCH, HEAD, OPTIONS and TRACE
  • Basic Authentication, Digest Authentication, Bearer Authentication & Client Certificate Authentication
  • Custom request headers
  • Custom request body (text only)
  • Upload files as form-data or request body
  • Support for HTTP proxies
  • Support for self-signed certificates
  • Built-in icons, support for custom icons or using a site's favicon
  • Display response as a toast, window or dialog, or run silently
  • Grouping into categories through tabs
  • Value injection through variables (e.g., text, numbers, passwords, selections, colors, dates, …)
  • Run arbitrary JavaScript before & after execution, including special actions, such as (but not limited to):
    • show dialogs
    • show toasts
    • prompt for user input (e.g. asking for dates, passwords, text, ...)
    • parse JSON or XML responses
    • compute HMAC
    • store values into global variables for later use
    • vibrate
    • play notification sounds
    • send TCP or UDP packets
    • send MQTT messages to a broker
    • wake-on-lan
    • send Android intents
    • trigger Tasker tasks
    • read QR code (via 3rd party app)
    • read current physical location
  • Import & Export in JSON or cURL format
  • 3rd party integration (e.g. Tasker)
  • Dark Mode support

Some ideas what to use HTTP shortcuts for:
  • Execute a script on your web server
  • Control your home automation system and IoT devices
  • Interact with your RaspberryPi and Arduino tinkering projects
  • Automate workflows

Find it on GitHub: https://github.com/Waboodoo/HTTP-Shortcuts.
Or visit the official website for documentation: https://http-shortcuts.rmy.ch

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