Just a heads up to the product owner - the site needs some work for mobile users: https://imgur.com/a/akNqP
Yeah, we're aware of this :( we need to spend time polishing those styles! -Micha from Paw
Paw – Advanced API tool for Mac
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Re: Paw – Advanced API tool for Mac
#52I've used Paw for a few years since I started getting inconsistent Postman results thanks to Chrome cookies, and I haven't looked back. It's really a fantastic tool that is part of my daily life as an API guy. The dev, Micha, is super helpful via email and has even incorporated feedback when the app didn't work the way I expected (like sending request body on GET). I would honestly buy it again if updates weren't fre…
Thanks, Eddie! That's really a kind feedback! But we're a whole team now ;)
Re: Paw – Advanced API tool for Mac
#53Would love to see built-in HAR import/export
AFAIK its import/export features are plugin based. Write it!
That's very true :) You can write custom extensions for Paw, and they can be then shared with the community.
But anyway, there's already a HAR importer, you can install it here as an extension https://paw.cloud/extensions/HARImporter
Also, we're working on a powerful API format transformer that we will release more officially soon, but it's already on GitHub: https://github.com/luckymarmot/api-flow That will allow us to release exporters for Swagger, RAML, HAR soon as well as formats of other clients like Postman and DHC Client.
If you're curious about writing an exporter/generator though here are some steps: https://paw.cloud/docs/extensions/create-code-generator
(Disclaimer, Paw guy here…)
Re: Paw – Advanced API tool for Mac
#54I can't believe some of the comments in this thread. Paw is an advanced developer tool with serious functionality for testing APIs, and many of the most upvoted comments are basically just posting links to similar tools, with substantially less functionality, that are free.
How many of these commenters make thousands of dollars every month as professional software engineers? How many make thousands each week? Paw is an extremely high quality, native Mac app, made by a small team trying to provide for their families by building software for other software engineers like all of us. It's a paid tool but it's probably the most sophisticated API testing tool that exists.
I've been a completely satisfied Paw user for over a year. It's been invaluable to me and I use it constantly. It is worth the money. It is more sophisticated with a far better user interface than anything else out there. Use the trial, buy it if you like it, but this pattern of comments saying Check Out Product Z, It's Like Product Y But Free (And Less Good) makes me hate coming to HN.
Re: Paw – Advanced API tool for Mac
#55Paw is a really great product, I've been using it for a long time now. I _really_ wish they would combine this with traffic capture - similar to Fiddler on Windows. Charles does the trick, but it's a mess to set up for proxying HTTPS traffic.
Traffic capture is definitely something we are looking into. Through to be honest it would most likely be a companion app rather than directly embedded within Paw --matthaus (@hishnash) Backend syncing dev at paw.cloud
Re: Paw – Advanced API tool for Mac
#56I love using Paw. I'm no longer in the building phase of my service, but when I was defining my API and testing endpoints, Paw was critical in the process. My main feature request (and I'm not sure if any competitor does this, so please inform me if it exists somewhere): While Paw allows me to export code, which is cool and all, it would be very interesting to allow me to compose workflows, like, say Automator in mac…
We have actually two ideas in this area. First, as you mentioned, assertion testing. We've recently published a workaround (as a joke, but it's actually working :D) https://blog.paw.cloud/posts/secret-path-to-paw-assertions/ but a real alternative is coming next.
Second, we are currently brainstorming around the idea of a good automation app. So somehow the two ideas may merge. We're not sure yet what would make sense for automation, but for assertions testing, for sure it's in the pipeline!
-Micha from Paw
Re: Paw – Advanced API tool for Mac
#57I was worried for a second somebody brought the Physics Analysis Workstation back to life:
Re: Paw – Advanced API tool for Mac
#58I love using Paw. I'm no longer in the building phase of my service, but when I was defining my API and testing endpoints, Paw was critical in the process. My main feature request (and I'm not sure if any competitor does this, so please inform me if it exists somewhere): While Paw allows me to export code, which is cool and all, it would be very interesting to allow me to compose workflows, like, say Automator in mac…
Being able to potentially export out to JMeter format (or generate Gatling Scala scenarios) would be awesome, because the JMeter GUI is so horribly awful.
Re: Paw – Advanced API tool for Mac
#59I've used Paw for a few years since I started getting inconsistent Postman results thanks to Chrome cookies, and I haven't looked back. It's really a fantastic tool that is part of my daily life as an API guy. The dev, Micha, is super helpful via email and has even incorporated feedback when the app didn't work the way I expected (like sending request body on GET). I would honestly buy it again if updates weren't fre…
Thanks, Eddie! That's really a kind feedback! But we're a whole team now ;)
Well cheers to the whole team then! Keep it up.
Re: Paw – Advanced API tool for Mac
#60Why do I need to create an account with an email and password to purchase this if it’s not a subscription service? To add insult to injury, I have to agree to some Terms of Service that probably indemnifies this company from doing whatever they want with my data. Who comes up with these brilliant ideas?
The Mac App Store is absolutely horrible (lots of bugs, slow, inconsistent, almost unusable, absurd certificate expiration issues that are completely embarrassing for a company like Apple, etc.) and Apple has completely ignored all developers who use it... but this is exactly why I always prefer buying from it. I don’t want some nobody developer harvesting my information, and selling/renting it off to some who knows who either now or some years down the line when the company folds.
Please have respect for your potential paying customers and drop these kinds of practices. Other than recovering a potentially lost license key, there is absolutely nothing I need from you, including any and all “news or updates”, after I have purchased the app. Therefore you should only really need some unique value (like the hash of an email address) for that.