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Re: Paw – Advanced API tool for Mac

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Post by Sanddancer »

brennebeck wrote: post #67
mightykan wrote: post #60

Why 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 exp…

Honest question: what apps that you purchase don't ask for your name or email?

Asking for an email is one thing. The problem is needing to create an account for downloading. I certainly didn't need an account when I bought a license for Eagle.

Re: Paw – Advanced API tool for Mac

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Post by tigershark »

pikzen wrote: post #70
flyosity wrote: post #54

I 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…

>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. Thing is, most of us don't care. I don't care if Paw engineers aren't selling their software. Just like they shouldn't care if I'm not selling mine. People a…

How copying completely (stealing) the fruit of someone else hard work can ever be a good thing?

Re: Paw – Advanced API tool for Mac

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Post by kodisha »

Best feature of paw (idk if it was intentional)

- fetch huge json

- collapse first level fields

- leave node/subnode of interest open

- change backend

- refresh paw, and see changes way faster, coz it will show only open subtree

really useful for large json responses! (Postman dies on those)

Re: Paw – Advanced API tool for Mac

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Post by morgante »

I've used Postman for a while, but I keep running into a strange issue where it somehow shares cookies with Chrome. It's proven very annoying for testing certain APIs (because the cookies override whichever auth headers I'm sending), so I've been looking for an alternative.

Paw definitely looks promising. The pricing seems a little steep though.

Re: Paw – Advanced API tool for Mac

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Post by colemickens »

jameslk wrote: post #24

For those who want something that works really well, with a very nice UI and is free, I would highly recommend Insomnia for Google Chrome (it functions as a standalone app outside of Chrome). https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/insomnia-rest-clie...

Why do these things insist on launching in their own window? This got uninstalled just as fast as Postman. There's no reason for those things to force an app icon and a separate window.

Re: Paw – Advanced API tool for Mac

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Post by idontgiveafuck »

Okie okie, people bought this, so what? "I am professional" "I am support the dev team" "I am a great developer with great salary" "It's better than anything" ---------------------------------------- CMON, ITS JUST A TOOL AND CMON, DO YOU REALLY NEED it WITH YOU EXTREMMEMEMEME AMAZING PROJECT?

Re: Paw – Advanced API tool for Mac

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Post by pbreit »

flyosity wrote: post #54

I 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…

If there's a free option that's pretty good (Postman) I think it's reasonable to include that in the discussion. I would especially like to understand how the 2 compare.

For me, the free aspect is important beyond just my paying for it: I create collections and I want them to be as accessible as possible.

Re: Paw – Advanced API tool for Mac

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Post by gschier »

jameslk wrote: post #33
andyfleming wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hadn't heard of this, but I am familiar with mashape. Their stuff is solid. Though, it looks like it is in beta, and I don't see any way to do cloud/team syncing.

The latest version (3.0) appears to be in beta, but 2.x is stable and I've been using it for at least a year. It doesn't have cloud/team syncing (at least in 2.x), but it does allow you to export request groups as JSON which can be shared/versioned. For being free and cross-platform, that seems good enough for me.

Hi there. I'm the creator of insomnia and just want to say thanks for the recommendation.

So far, 3.0 ditches the Chrome dependency and provides a much nicer UI, but more advanced features like sync and versioning are in the works!

~ Gregory

Re: Paw – Advanced API tool for Mac

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Post by nbrempel »

jameslk wrote: post #24

For those who want something that works really well, with a very nice UI and is free, I would highly recommend Insomnia for Google Chrome (it functions as a standalone app outside of Chrome). https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/insomnia-rest-clie...

I also recommend Insomnia. It's super productive and easy to use.
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