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this looks really great! since insomnia started requiring an account I never really settled on anything else. the one thing that worries me is compatibility - I echo the voices asking for hurl support. it kinda sucks that each of these programs invents its own format. it would also be great to be able to run these requests as part of a CI pipeline, without opening the TUI. supporting a format like hurl would add this…

Give Bruno a look

Re: Show HN: Posting v1 – The modern HTTP client that lives in your terminal

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This looks pretty cool! I have yet to find something to pull me away from the Rest Client extension for VS code. I will give this a try and see how it shakes out but at a glance on my phone I am not seeing support for variables.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=humao.re...

Re: Show HN: Posting v1 – The modern HTTP client that lives in your terminal

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Looks cool. Would be really nice if you could automatically generate the yaml files from an openapi.json file like the kind that are automatically generated by FastAPI.

There's an experimental OpenAPI import function.

Re: Show HN: Posting v1 – The modern HTTP client that lives in your terminal

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Does it support OAuth2 authentication/ token acquisition? I’d love to not have to put my access token / secret key into Postman. Happy to be a tester.

It doesn't support OAuth2 yet, but I do plan to add more auth schemes in the future.

Re: Show HN: Posting v1 – The modern HTTP client that lives in your terminal

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm going to explore integration with other formats in the future. Right now there's experimental (incomplete) support for importing from OpenAPI v3. I'd like to add Postman and Insomnia collection importing too. Some kind of integration with Hurl could be very nice too, but would likely come further down the line.

Please, allow using flat file http messages. IntelliJ has a great build in http client that's using HTTP message files and otherwise has a similar feature set. But having to launch intellij every time is a real PITA.

I was going to post almost this exact comment. When I've got an Intellij IDE already open, it's the best tool for this job - and that's saying a lot as we've been developing HTTP clients for decades. But I often find myself banging out a curl command with too many -H clauses if nothing Jetbrains is already running.

For those who haven't used the Jetbrains HTTP client recently: maybe two or three years ago it was completely replaced and has been improved continuously since. Give it a try.

Re: Show HN: Posting v1 – The modern HTTP client that lives in your terminal

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This is great, I could see myself using it daily. The only hindrance I've found so far is navigating large responses. Would be cool to have some way to collapse chunks of JSON (a la https://github.com/antonmedv/fx ), or even just more vim key navigation, like G/gg, %, {/}, and search.

I agree that could be improved! The extra Vim keys you suggested should be simple enough to add.

Maybe have a look at jless, a terminal json viewer with folding support.

Re: Show HN: Posting v1 – The modern HTTP client that lives in your terminal

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Does it support OAuth2 authentication/ token acquisition? I’d love to not have to put my access token / secret key into Postman. Happy to be a tester.

It doesn't support OAuth2 yet, but I do plan to add more auth schemes in the future.

I’ll keep my eye on your progress. Thanks.
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