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Re: Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down

#31

Post by ibejoeb »

gschier wrote: post #21

This is exactly why I made Yaak [1]. It's fully offline, no telemetry, open source, and can even sync with Git. https://yaak.app

off topic, sorry: Looking at the docs and I don't find a quick answer. I really want an API client that will do OAuth and handle token refresh, and I haven't found one. The use case is that (obviously) I control the redirect URI, so I'd like to map it back to client (some kind of proxy that I run and make external with all of the requisite DNS and TLS) or maybe via a hosted service (which I'm willing to accept for the convenience.)

I haven't used postman or insomnia in a while since they went to the cloud, so I could just be missing it, but that's also a non-starter for me.

Re: Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down

#32

Post by S04dKHzrKT »

Depending on your usage, you may not need a separate app. Jetbrains[0], Visual Studio[1] and VSCode[2] have support for http files.

[0]: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/http-client-in-product-c...

[1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/test/http-file...

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

Re: Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down

#33

Post by frizlab »

ibejoeb wrote: post #31
gschier wrote: post #21

This is exactly why I made Yaak [1]. It's fully offline, no telemetry, open source, and can even sync with Git. https://yaak.app

off topic, sorry: Looking at the docs and I don't find a quick answer. I really want an API client that will do OAuth and handle token refresh, and I haven't found one. The use case is that (obviously) I control the redirect URI, so I'd like to map it back to client (some kind of proxy that I run and make external with all of the requisite DNS and TLS) or maybe via a hosted service (which I'm willing to accept for th…

RapidAPI (ex. Paw) does that AFAIK.

Also, it’s an amazing app.

Re: Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down

#34

Post by nsxwolf »

S04dKHzrKT wrote: post #32

Depending on your usage, you may not need a separate app. Jetbrains[0], Visual Studio[1] and VSCode[2] have support for http files. [0]: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/http-client-in-product-c... [1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/test/http-file... [2]: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=humao.re...

A lot of organizations have very large suites of postman collections that serve as API documentation, regression and QA testing… they often heavily rely on the postman Javascript libraries and have custom code embedded directly in the collection.

Re: Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down

#35

Post by gschier »

ibejoeb wrote: post #31
gschier wrote: post #21

This is exactly why I made Yaak [1]. It's fully offline, no telemetry, open source, and can even sync with Git. https://yaak.app

off topic, sorry: Looking at the docs and I don't find a quick answer. I really want an API client that will do OAuth and handle token refresh, and I haven't found one. The use case is that (obviously) I control the redirect URI, so I'd like to map it back to client (some kind of proxy that I run and make external with all of the requisite DNS and TLS) or maybe via a hosted service (which I'm willing to accept for th…

Yaak does this out of the box. It pops open a browser window and intercepts any redirect. And auto refresh is built in as well.

Re: Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down

#37

Post by ibejoeb »

gschier wrote: post #35
ibejoeb wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

off topic, sorry: Looking at the docs and I don't find a quick answer. I really want an API client that will do OAuth and handle token refresh, and I haven't found one. The use case is that (obviously) I control the redirect URI, so I'd like to map it back to client (some kind of proxy that I run and make external with all of the requisite DNS and TLS) or maybe via a hosted service (which I'm willing to accept for th…

Yaak does this out of the box. It pops open a browser window and intercepts any redirect. And auto refresh is built in as well.

Awesome. Downloaded. Thanks!

Re: Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down

#38

Post by EspadaV9 »

gschier wrote: post #21

This is exactly why I made Yaak [1]. It's fully offline, no telemetry, open source, and can even sync with Git. https://yaak.app

Been using Yaak for 6-9 months now, initially built from source, but now a paying subscriber. Recently saw that you post open metrics[1] on subscriber count and revenue, and love getting a little look behind the curtains.

[1]: https://yaak.app/open

Re: Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down

#39

Post by jiehong »

S04dKHzrKT wrote: post #32

Depending on your usage, you may not need a separate app. Jetbrains[0], Visual Studio[1] and VSCode[2] have support for http files. [0]: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/http-client-in-product-c... [1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/test/http-file... [2]: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=humao.re...

Last time I checked, they don’t support the exact same format in each product.

Thus, we stick with hurl.

QA seems to stick to robot framework instead. Some use Bruno.

Re: Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down

#40

Post by gschier »

EspadaV9 wrote: post #38
gschier wrote: post #21

This is exactly why I made Yaak [1]. It's fully offline, no telemetry, open source, and can even sync with Git. https://yaak.app

Been using Yaak for 6-9 months now, initially built from source, but now a paying subscriber. Recently saw that you post open metrics[1] on subscriber count and revenue, and love getting a little look behind the curtains. [1]: https://yaak.app/open

Nice! Yep, trying to be as open and accessible as possible since so much of the industry is the opposite.
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