Ask HN: Developers, do you use Postman for API testing?
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Re: Ask HN: Developers, do you use Postman for API testing?
#2I have used it for years, but they recently crippled it. it is unusable now.
SoapUI seem like it is too tied down to xml.
does anyone have suggestions?
Re: Ask HN: Developers, do you use Postman for API testing?
#3curl
Re: Ask HN: Developers, do you use Postman for API testing?
#4I have used it for years, but they recently crippled it. it is unusable now. SoapUI seem like it is too tied down to xml. does anyone have suggestions?
https://github.com/docsion/rfsh if you are familiar with bash script , feel free to add feature request via PR (e.g run test for postman collection)
Re: Ask HN: Developers, do you use Postman for API testing?
#5curl
me too! or, you can give httpie [1] a try
Re: Ask HN: Developers, do you use Postman for API testing?
#6I switched to Insomnia a while ago because it's less bloated.
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#7curl
How do you deal with oauth2 with curl?
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#8Re: Ask HN: Developers, do you use Postman for API testing?
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How do you deal with oauth2 with curl?
Google for “curl oauth2” for lots of helpful explanations and examples.
It's not as straightforward as something like Insomnia because you have to write a script that will open a browser and pull the tokens from there.
Re: Ask HN: Developers, do you use Postman for API testing?
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Google for “curl oauth2” for lots of helpful explanations and examples.
It's not as straightforward as something like Insomnia because you have to write a script that will open a browser and pull the tokens from there.
That depends. If you can use the command line and write a short script that’s just copy/paste from StackOverflow, curl is very simple.