Installation

HTTPolice is a Python package that requires Python 3.4+. PyPy is also supported.

Like other Python packages, HTTPolice is installed with pip from PyPI. If you’re not familiar with pip, you may need to install it manually or from your OS distribution.

On Debian/Ubuntu

Depending on your setup, you may or may not need to install these packages:

$ sudo apt-get install python3-pip python3-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev zlib1g-dev

Then, to install the HTTPolice command-line tool into ~/.local/bin:

$ pip3 install --user HTTPolice

Or, to install it system-wide:

$ sudo pip3 install HTTPolice

Check that the installation was successful:

$ httpolice --version
HTTPolice 0.7.0

On Fedora

Same as above, but the dependency packages are:

$ sudo dnf install python3-pip gcc gcc-c++ redhat-rpm-config python3-devel libxml2-devel libxslt-devel

On Windows

After installing a recent Python, typically all you need to do is:

C:\Users\Vasiliy\...\Python36>Scripts\pip install HTTPolice

Check that the installation was successful:

C:\Users\Vasiliy\...\Python36>Scripts\httpolice --version
HTTPolice 0.7.0

But if pip install starts trying (and failing) to compile some libraries, you may need to give it a hand: check the PyPI pages for those libraries (such as lxml or Brotli) to find versions that have suitable pre-built binares (*-win32.whl), and install those specific versions first. For example:

C:\Users\Vasiliy\...\Python36>Scripts\pip install lxml==3.8.0
C:\Users\Vasiliy\...\Python36>Scripts\pip install Brotli==1.0.4
C:\Users\Vasiliy\...\Python36>Scripts\pip install HTTPolice