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Re: Show HN: API Parrot – Automatically Reverse Engineer HTTP APIs

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Post by urronglol »

pvarghav wrote: post #26
brushfoot wrote: post #8

Impressive project. I was curious how it discovers data relationships and was going to check the repo, but it looks like there's no code, only issues and releases. Is that right? Which leads me to... - Is this closed source? - Does it cost money? - How does it discover data relationships?

Thanks for your interest! - Is this closed source? Currently, the code is not open source, but I might open-source parts of it in the future. - Does it cost money? The software is free to use. If there is demand, I might create a "pro" version for businesses in the future. However, I intend to always have a free version available for individuals. - How does it discover data relationships? I've discussed how it discov…

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Re: Show HN: API Parrot – Automatically Reverse Engineer HTTP APIs

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Post by quesera »

setheron wrote: post #25
yoavmmn wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nowadays everything runs on docker anyway

You'd never see a Windows developer work in MacOS or a iOS developer work in Linux but Linux developers (server side) routinely work in MacOS Unnecessary abstraction

Counter-argument: it could be risky to dev on and deploy to a single monoculture.

But empirically, I've been developing on macOS (etc) and Linux (often simultaneously), and deploying to Linux (Debian, RHEL/AL), Solaris (etc), and FreeBSD ... for more than 20 years.

Aside from package management tooling differences, package naming, and package content splits (e.g. pkg vs pkg-dev) -- all of which are equally inconsistent between Linux distros -- I cannot recall a single issue caused by this heterogeneity.

Re: Show HN: API Parrot – Automatically Reverse Engineer HTTP APIs

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Post by F7F7F7 »

rafram wrote: post #23
setheron wrote: post #18

Very sad half the comments are asking for MacOS app. The rise of development on MacOS for server development when the final target is Linux will cause long term harm to the newer generation of engineers

Most people scraping sites aren’t writing anything low-level enough to care about the particular flavor of Unix-like OS it runs on.

I’d argue that there’s no correlation at all between the two.

Re: Show HN: API Parrot – Automatically Reverse Engineer HTTP APIs

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Post by criddell »

setheron wrote: post #18

Very sad half the comments are asking for MacOS app. The rise of development on MacOS for server development when the final target is Linux will cause long term harm to the newer generation of engineers

Or maybe some of the newer generation will take time to update Linux to be more competitive with macOS for developers. Could be a long term win for Linux fans.

Re: Show HN: API Parrot – Automatically Reverse Engineer HTTP APIs

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Post by pvarghav »

davide_v wrote: post #5

Nice, I was looking for something like this. I tried it on Ubuntu but after clicking Capture requests > Launch Chrome, nothing happens.

Thank you for pointing this out. I've addressed the issue, and it should now be fixed in version 0.2.1, which is available for download on the website. Please update to the latest version, and let me know if you encounter any more problems.

Re: Show HN: API Parrot – Automatically Reverse Engineer HTTP APIs

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Post by bearjaws »

cdaringe wrote: post #22
setheron wrote: post #18

Very sad half the comments are asking for MacOS app. The rise of development on MacOS for server development when the final target is Linux will cause long term harm to the newer generation of engineers

Not sad at all! Mac has excellent hardware, excellent reliability, excellent day to day performance. Im not a fanboy, but it won for (IMHO) clear and obvious reasons. Of course folks want a mac app. No comment on the “harm” bit.

It is always amazing to me people who will chastise people for using Macs.

It is by far the most robust hardware and 15 years later Windows laptops may finally be catching up.

My first programming job was LAMP so I had a Linux desktop and loved it. Later I got a new job that gave us laptops, but they were quite beefy.

I had a Dell laptop with an Nvidia GPU and an Intel iGPU... After updating my OS my gpu was the only way to use my laptop, which made the battery die in under an hour and of course it was much hotter.

I tried numerous driver installs, proprietary, open source, reinstall OS, different OS... Nothing got it working again on a newer version of the Linux kernel.

Went to the Apple Store bought a MBP and have never had an issue since. Not one dead laptop, in 10 years, I plug in my USB C dock and go.

2 years later, what happened to one of my coworkers? Same exact thing. He spent 3 days trying to fix it and basically had a workaround that crashed occasionally.

I get paid to produce working software not configure my OS, and people wonder why Macs are so popular?

Re: Show HN: API Parrot – Automatically Reverse Engineer HTTP APIs

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Post by prophesi »

setheron wrote: post #25
yoavmmn wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nowadays everything runs on docker anyway

You'd never see a Windows developer work in MacOS or a iOS developer work in Linux but Linux developers (server side) routinely work in MacOS Unnecessary abstraction

> iOS developer work in Linux

I dream of the day Apple releases official docker images. Building for iOS is the only reason I have to touch a Mac.

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