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

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Post by forty » Wed, Jan 01, 2025, 7:03 PM UTC

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

I agree, people don't realize the value of not depending on a single company to do their work. We can see this problem even more with LLM code generators.

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

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Post by sumanyusharma » Wed, Jan 01, 2025, 7:16 PM UTC

How is this different from Integuru? They posted a few weeks back here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41983409

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

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Post by teichman » Wed, Jan 01, 2025, 7:28 PM UTC

Integru has been really great for us. Curious how you think about differentiation?

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

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Post by rorroe53 » Wed, Jan 01, 2025, 7:30 PM UTC

bearjaws wrote: post #39

cdaringe wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Macbooks have been nice since M1 era, but the Intel Macbooks between years 2013-2020 were hardly robust. My partner's 2014 MBP Retina's screen plastic film started peeling off, which was a known design flaw of those models. Later the ones with butterfly keyboard were notoriously unreliable, with keys getting stuck.

Personally I haven't had much trouble with Linux on modern Thinkpads. Very little to configure manually, as long as you pick the right distro. Even a Dell laptop at work with Linux isn't causing me much OS-related issues, although battery life sucks.

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

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Post by UltraSane » Wed, Jan 01, 2025, 7:51 PM UTC

victorbjorklund wrote: post #27

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

Why? I mostly code on Mac and deploy on Linux (or FreeBSD). Never really encountered a situation where programming a web app on Mac has caused issues when deploying to the server.

What about issues with CPU architecture?

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

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Post by sidgarimella » Wed, Jan 01, 2025, 8:12 PM UTC

Love this. I’ve worked on a few projects in RPA prior and I’m losing faith in selectors. I think either direct data access like this or AI based CV are the automation arms of the future.

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

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Post by remoquete » Wed, Jan 01, 2025, 8:17 PM UTC

Looks very interesting. Does it produce an OpenAPI file? That'd help immensely in documenting APIs that lack specifications.

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

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Post by 1a527dd5 » Wed, Jan 01, 2025, 8:25 PM UTC

rynn wrote: post #38

How does it compare to mitmmitmproxy2swagger? https://github.com/alufers/mitmproxy2swagger

The first and immediate difference for me is the ability to recall the name. I can recall Postman/Insomina fine, and now for API Parrot. I'm never going to be able to recall mitmproxy2swagger.

Unfortunately, names matter.

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

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Post by lionkor » Wed, Jan 01, 2025, 8:26 PM UTC

UltraSane wrote: post #45

victorbjorklund wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why? I mostly code on Mac and deploy on Linux (or FreeBSD). Never really encountered a situation where programming a web app on Mac has caused issues when deploying to the server.

What about issues with CPU architecture?

When you write web code you should never have to worry about that. Actually, if you write any user space code, except drivers, you shouldn't have to worry about that. If you have to worry about it, reconsider your tooling very seriously

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

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Post by Sardtok » Wed, Jan 01, 2025, 8:29 PM UTC

UltraSane wrote: post #45

victorbjorklund wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why? I mostly code on Mac and deploy on Linux (or FreeBSD). Never really encountered a situation where programming a web app on Mac has caused issues when deploying to the server.

What about issues with CPU architecture?

Yes, when you write web apps in x86 assembly, it gets tricky.