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it's a good api client, and it's free for individual use and they have some sort of nifty marketplace integration catalog...thing with remote API servers that makes it easy to find and try API services that offer data / functionality you want to connect to.
Postman has long been too bloated to be useful.
After the whiffs of enshittification caught my nose I did some research and switched over to Insomnia. I don’t make use of any advanced features, just a pre request authentication call that was a little bit of a pain to set up. But it’s working exactly how I was using postman so it’s a suitable replacement for me
Learn and use curl, then you won’t have any issues like this. You can make some scripts in Python or something, too. I say this because the last three tools I used for this all got shitty (postman, insomnia, and thunder client).
Curl is not sufficient for rapid experimentation against an API.
It’s excellent. Doesn’t have server mocking AFAIK, :shrug:
Here's one I just found: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=humao.re...
Syntax looks like:
GET https://example.com/comments/1 HTTP/1.1
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GET https://example.com/topics/1 HTTP/1.1
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POST https://example.com/comments HTTP/1.1
content-type: application/json
{
"name": "sample",
"time": "Wed, 21 Oct 2015 18:27:50 GMT"
}For the emacs users: restclient.el It’s excellent. Doesn’t have server mocking AFAIK, :shrug:
Edit: To be clear it's an app (downloadable client), despite the url.
We’re building an open-source Postman alternative. 1.6m+ users, 100k+ monthly active users, 55k+ GitHub stars. Web app: https://hoppscotch.io GitHub: https://github.com/hoppscotch/hoppscotch
Insomnia was an alternative to Postman, raised VC funds, eventually needed to justify that, and suddenly accounts mattered more. They're currently on the same trajectory.
Insomnia is open source but just like OP experienced, a single update can do damage and it takes time for the community to react.
Is this the same company that raised? If so, are you exempt from that? Have you figured out some monetization scheme for what is essentially a glorified curl UI that doesn't incentivize account sign ups?