Installation

HTTPolice is a Python package that requires Python 2.7 or 3.4+. It can be installed like all other Python packages: with pip from PyPI.

If you’re not familiar with pip, you may need to install it manually or from your OS distribution. You may also need development files and tools to compile dependencies.

PyPy (the 2.7 variant) is also supported, but you may experience problems with older PyPy versions (5.3.1 should be OK).

On Debian/Ubuntu

$ sudo apt-get install python-pip python-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev zlib1g-dev libffi-dev

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

$ pip install --user HTTPolice

Or, to install it system-wide:

$ sudo pip install HTTPolice

Check that the installation was successful:

$ httpolice --version
HTTPolice 0.4.0

On Fedora

Same as above, but use the following command to install dependencies:

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

On Windows

HTTPolice uses libraries (lxml and brotlipy) that include binary CPython extensions. You probably want precompiled versions of these extensions, and to get them, you may need specific versions of Python, lxml and brotlipy.

For example, at the time of writing, you can install Python 3.5 (not 3.6) and then simply do:

C:\Users\Vasiliy\...\Python35>Scripts\pip install HTTPolice

Check that the installation was successful:

C:\Users\Vasiliy\...\Python35>Scripts\httpolice --version
HTTPolice 0.4.0

However, it’s possible that new versions of lxml and brotlipy might not have precompiled binaries for your version of Python, and then you will have to check the PyPI pages of these libraries to find a version that has suitable binaries (look for *-win32.whl), and install those specific versions before installing HTTPolice. For example:

C:\Users\Vasiliy\...\Python35>Scripts\pip install lxml==3.7.2
C:\Users\Vasiliy\...\Python35>Scripts\pip install brotlipy==0.6.0