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Re: Show HN: Library of API collections for Postman

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Post by owaislone » Wed, Dec 20, 2017, 7:31 PM UTC

swinto wrote: post #16

owaislone wrote: post #12

Postman is a monster. It's a pain to use. Classic example of feature overload. Also, they don't have an automatic release channel on Linux. It keeps bugging you to update to latest release and then sends you to page to download a tarball which you have to extract and replace existing install with. Just provide a snap package already. I was using Insomnia quite happily until it became really resource hungry and CPU st…

Does Insomnia offer a function of sharing the collections of APIs to collaborate, coming back to the OP? :)

AFAIR, you could export and import your environment as JSON. I've shared it with team mates like that. It did not have a team-sync feature back when I used it. It might now. I don't know.

Re: Show HN: Library of API collections for Postman

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Post by levonterteryan » Wed, Dec 20, 2017, 7:32 PM UTC

owaislone wrote: post #20

levonterteryan wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for sharing your feedback, we'll forward it to Postman. Did you use Paw? What is your experience with it? https://paw.cloud/

AFAIK, Paw is macOS exclusive so I've not tried it.

Good to know, thanks!

Re: Show HN: Library of API collections for Postman

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Post by levonterteryan » Wed, Dec 20, 2017, 7:32 PM UTC

evv wrote: post #19

levonterteryan wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the feedback, we'll consider building something separate for those tools. Are there many users for them?

Not sure about Paw, but insomnia is quite transparent. Seems to have over 30k weekly active users: https://insomnia.rest/transparency/

hm.. not bad :)

Re: Show HN: Library of API collections for Postman

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Post by levonterteryan » Wed, Dec 20, 2017, 8:14 PM UTC

owaislone wrote: post #21

swinto wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does Insomnia offer a function of sharing the collections of APIs to collaborate, coming back to the OP? :)

AFAIR, you could export and import your environment as JSON. I've shared it with team mates like that. It did not have a team-sync feature back when I used it. It might now. I don't know.

we'll check it out :) thanks!

Re: Show HN: Library of API collections for Postman

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Post by halostatue » Wed, Dec 20, 2017, 11:27 PM UTC

cupofjoakim wrote: post #3

I'd love something similar for Paw or Insomnia. Not really enjoying postman like I used to.

Paw can (fairly trivially) import well-constructed Postman collections.

Re: Show HN: Library of API collections for Postman

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Post by levonterteryan » Thu, Dec 21, 2017, 5:46 AM UTC

halostatue wrote: post #25

cupofjoakim wrote: post #3

I'd love something similar for Paw or Insomnia. Not really enjoying postman like I used to.

Paw can (fairly trivially) import well-constructed Postman collections.

will try that too :)

Re: Show HN: Library of API collections for Postman

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Post by kuceram » Fri, Dec 22, 2017, 9:06 AM UTC

AngeloAnolin wrote: post #17

Good collection, as well as links to the documentation available for each API. Side note: Why all the bash and hate for Postman here? Why not write an article and express your concern(s) there and submit it here in HN. Or better yet, connect with the team[1] at Postman and throw your ideas on making it better. [1] https://www.getpostman.com/team

Good point!

However this looks as a duplicate to official api network https://www.getpostman.com/api-network/ to me (as mentioned below). On the other hand, I like that you can share your collections, rate them and have a discussion. But what if Postman team decides for the same? :-)