HTTP Request Shortcuts

HTTP Request Shortcuts

Submit HTTP Requests from Shortcuts on your Home Screen

Waboodoo System

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Description

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

Versions

Version Date Size Requires Android Download
4.6.0 current
8c43b5456f528358…
 2026-06-18 20 MB API 26
4.5.0
8ed76e00fb5f47a6…
 2026-05-27 20 MB API 26
4.4.1
02e13f701497f2b7…
 2026-05-03 20 MB API 26

Permissions

What the app asks the system for. Android only grants sensitive access after you confirm it.

  • Internet accessSend and receive data over the internet.
  • launcher.permission.INSTALL_SHORTCUT
  • launcher.permission.UNINSTALL_SHORTCUT
  • Wi-Fi stateRead information about the Wi-Fi connection.
  • Network stateCheck whether and how the device is connected.
  • Change networkChange network connections.
  • Change Wi-FiTurn Wi-Fi on and off or switch networks.
  • VibrationControl the vibration alert.
Show 15 more permissions
  • Display over other appsDraw content on top of other apps.
  • REQUEST_IGNORE_BATTERY_OPTIMIZATIONS
  • Foreground serviceKeep running in the background, visible in the status bar.
  • NotificationsShow notifications.
  • Approximate locationDetermine the location via the network.
  • Precise locationDetermine the location via GPS.
  • tasker.PERMISSION_RUN_TASKS
  • permission.CONTROL_TUNNELS
  • permission.RUN_COMMAND
  • Prevent sleepingKeep the device from going to sleep.
  • Run at startupStart automatically after the device is switched on.
  • BiometricsUnlock with fingerprint or face.
  • FingerprintUnlock with a fingerprint.
  • http_shortcuts.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION
  • FOREGROUND_SERVICE_SPECIAL_USE

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