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Re: Show HN: API Parrot – Automatically Reverse Engineer HTTP APIs

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Post by enricotal » Wed, Jan 01, 2025, 3:48 PM UTC

Fantastic Tool ... Mac version is paramount

Re: Show HN: API Parrot – Automatically Reverse Engineer HTTP APIs

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Post by chompin » Wed, Jan 01, 2025, 3:48 PM UTC

davide_v wrote: post #5

Nice, I was looking for something like this. I tried it on Ubuntu but after clicking Capture requests > Launch Chrome, nothing happens.

Same issue, would prefer the option to use any browser also. Chrome is not my cup of tea

Re: Show HN: API Parrot – Automatically Reverse Engineer HTTP APIs

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Post by yellow_lead » Wed, Jan 01, 2025, 3:58 PM UTC

Hi, it seems youve spelled reverse wrong

> API Parrot is the tool specifically designed to reverese engineer the HTTP APIs of any website.

Re: Show HN: API Parrot – Automatically Reverse Engineer HTTP APIs

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Post by 7357 » Wed, Jan 01, 2025, 4:07 PM UTC

davide_v wrote: post #5

Nice, I was looking for something like this. I tried it on Ubuntu but after clicking Capture requests > Launch Chrome, nothing happens.

Looks like it wants to run chrome using `start chrome` which is AFAIK a Windows-only command.

Re: Show HN: API Parrot – Automatically Reverse Engineer HTTP APIs

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Post by yawndex » Wed, Jan 01, 2025, 4:12 PM UTC

Any current plans for a macOS release?

Re: Show HN: API Parrot – Automatically Reverse Engineer HTTP APIs

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Post by devops000 » Wed, Jan 01, 2025, 4:15 PM UTC

Feedback: add a newsletter form to get notification when you will release the MacOSX version

Re: Show HN: API Parrot – Automatically Reverse Engineer HTTP APIs

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Post by toomuchtodo » Wed, Jan 01, 2025, 4:21 PM UTC

devops000 wrote: post #16

Feedback: add a newsletter form to get notification when you will release the MacOSX version

+1, ready to buy

Re: Show HN: API Parrot – Automatically Reverse Engineer HTTP APIs

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Post by setheron » Wed, Jan 01, 2025, 4:22 PM UTC

Very sad half the comments are asking for MacOS app. The rise of development on MacOS for server development when the final target is Linux will cause long term harm to the newer generation of engineers

Re: Show HN: API Parrot – Automatically Reverse Engineer HTTP APIs

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Post by skeptrune » Wed, Jan 01, 2025, 4:37 PM UTC

brushfoot wrote: post #8

Impressive project. I was curious how it discovers data relationships and was going to check the repo, but it looks like there's no code, only issues and releases. Is that right? Which leads me to... - Is this closed source? - Does it cost money? - How does it discover data relationships?

It's entertaining that Github has become such a common place to find information that even closed source projects put something up there

Re: Show HN: API Parrot – Automatically Reverse Engineer HTTP APIs

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Post by yoavmmn » Wed, Jan 01, 2025, 4:48 PM UTC

setheron wrote: post #18

Very sad half the comments are asking for MacOS app. The rise of development on MacOS for server development when the final target is Linux will cause long term harm to the newer generation of engineers

Nowadays everything runs on docker anyway