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Postman alternatives? (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago by prwnr@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev

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I would like to hear if any of you are using different app for API testing than Postman.

I’m not telling that Postman is bad, but maybe there’s all that I should check out. Recently I tried RapidApi and even tho the app is kinda cool I missed few options and went back to Postman for now.

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[–] nibblebit@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

I use milkman

[–] lavafroth@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

If you're not strictly looking for GUI tools, you might want to look into httpie or the http command built into the nu shell.

[–] xenonyx@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

As a lot of other comments have already suggested, HTTP Toolkit is a good alternative and I used it quite a bit prior to discovering Postman..

[–] alchemist_dev@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

xh and tiny shell scripts.

Example: sign-up-forbidden-username.req

#!/bin/bash
xh POST http://0.0.0.0:2884/sign-up usename=admin password=pw

to run ./sign-up-forbidden-username.req

This returns 403 and "Username is unavailable"

https://github.com/ducaale/xh

xh is a rust implementation of httpie. They're going for full parity, and works really well for what I need it for so far You can also read input from a file. Which IMO makes GUI API testing seem silly.

[–] garam@lemmy.my.id 1 points 1 year ago

I would use swagger in some instance tbh

[–] Wats0ns@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Insomnia used to be good, but it's WebKit, so really heavy to run, it crashed my PC several times

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