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Re: Tell HN: Postman update removes all your stuff if you refuse to create account

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Post by coldtrait »

helloanoop wrote: post #138

Try Bruno - https://github.com/usebruno/bruno - Free and Opensource IDE for exploring and testing APIs - It is lightweight with MIT license - Bruno stores your collections directly in a folder on your filesystem - Use git for collaboration - No cloud sync. Fully offline. PS: I am the creator of this project

Is there a way to use an interceptor on this?

With postman when I could use their interceptor extension on the browser, that would transfer cookies (from when I was logged into an app that was running locally) onto any of postman's requests. That was very convenient.

Re: Tell HN: Postman update removes all your stuff if you refuse to create account

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Post by CommonGuy »

SamuelAdams wrote: post #135
CommonGuy wrote: post #20

As one of the creators, I can recommmend https://kreya.app . It is not open source (like Postman), but has a strong focus on privacy and also stores the data locally. As it has more powerful features (IMO) than most alternatives listed here, I am a little disappointed that it isn't mentioned more often.

Any chance this can be made available via homebrew? Also, are there telemetry settings I can configure? I frequently work in HIPAA and DoD environments, so the less telemetry tools send the happier those sysadmins are.

Homebrew "support" (and other package managers) is planned.

Telemetry is opt-out and anonymous. More about what is collected and how to disable here: https://kreya.app/docs/telemetry/

Re: Tell HN: Postman update removes all your stuff if you refuse to create account

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Post by ok_dad »

kyriakos wrote: post #149
ok_dad wrote: post #6

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).

What's wrong with thunder client?

Weird pricing BS they just started.

Re: Tell HN: Postman update removes all your stuff if you refuse to create account

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Post by kyriakos »

ok_dad wrote: post #153
kyriakos wrote: post #149

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's wrong with thunder client?

Weird pricing BS they just started.

Wow, just visited the pricing page https://www.thunderclient.com/pricing

Hadn't noticed this change (I am not a heavy user) but it does look like its heading the postman way. I moved from Postman to Insomnia to Thunder Client. Time for yet another alternative.

Re: Tell HN: Postman update removes all your stuff if you refuse to create account

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Post by isbvhodnvemrwvn »

ok_dad wrote: post #110
isbvhodnvemrwvn wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It falls apart instantly when you need to pass data from one endpoint to another or add any sort of logic like filtering through data - so any time you have non-trivial workloads where you don't want to spend half your time fighting against jq or shell.

You don’t have to fight tools if you learn them, but I understand— as a fellow programmer— that you don’t always have time to learn them. However, it’s pretty easy to use pipes and tools like jq to do complex stuff.

While jq is powerful and I use it in scripts, it's one of the least intuitive languages I use, to the point I have to look up basically everything non-trivial.

Re: Tell HN: Postman update removes all your stuff if you refuse to create account

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Post by isbvhodnvemrwvn »

worksonmine wrote: post #131

I'm surprised OpenAPI/Swagger hasn't been suggested. Define either as yaml or inline JsDoc comments if you're working in js/ts. I thought it was more popular than postman but I must be living in a bubble. Local, open source, versioned and can serve as interactive documentation for users. Never tried it personally but it can even generate code from the specs.

My main use case for postman like tools is to get me into the middle of a workflow to reproduce some sort of a scenario. Stateless tools just don't do it, as I need to spend a long time copying things around.

Re: Tell HN: Postman update removes all your stuff if you refuse to create account

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Post by dannydainton »

Two4 wrote: post #147
dannydainton wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your Scratch Pad data is safe and accessible. It can be Migrated to a new Workspace, once you create an account, using the 'Cog Icon > Settings > Data > Migrate data' menu option. Alternatively, it can be Exported from the Lightweight API Client(signed out version) using the 'Cog Icon > Settings > Data > Export data' menu options.

I'm assuming you work for Postman. I hope you know that because of this, as well as the account requirement, other REST tools are going to eat your lunch. I don't think this was a good move.

Appreciate the feedback. Have a lovely day.

Re: Tell HN: Postman update removes all your stuff if you refuse to create account

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Post by helloanoop »

whaleofatw2022 wrote: post #137
skeeter2020 wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

yep, Insomnia was the alternative to Postman, now the cycle continues...

Which is kinda interesting, in that I know folks who started using Insomnia because postman started enshittification first... Sad Insomnia made it a race

Is there a duopoly play happening here?

Re: Tell HN: Postman update removes all your stuff if you refuse to create account

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Post by helloanoop »

skeeter2020 wrote: post #63
richbell wrote: post #33

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Postman did it first, unless I'm missing something.

yep, Insomnia was the alternative to Postman, now the cycle continues...

Reminds me of Dark - "The end is the beginning and the beginning is the end." – Adam

Hope Bruno will deliver us from this never-ending cycle.

Re: Tell HN: Postman update removes all your stuff if you refuse to create account

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Post by helloanoop »

isbvhodnvemrwvn wrote: post #68
redox99 wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This one is free from VC funding and promises to stay away from it. So it should not suffer from enshittification. See https://github.com/usebruno/bruno/discussions/269

The one thing I'm afraid of is that it's a single maintainer project, and while they are active now, I'm not sure how this is going to fare in a few months or so.

I've been at this for 2 years. The project got visibility very recently.

The code is MIT. I look forward to do this for a long long time.

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