I've been using Insomnia, but it seems they've enshittified. I started it up after an upgrade and found that Environments are now paywalled/behind an account. Is there a true open-source alternative to Postman/Insomnia anyone recommends?

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[–] 28 points 10 months ago (5 children)
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    https://justuse.org/curl/

    You know what's better than downloading Postman? Not downloading Postman.

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  • [–] 40 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    I have been using Bruno and I am quite happy with it (+ you can version and share your projects) https://www.usebruno.com/

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    I actually don't find bruno that great compare to insomnia. it doesn't have basic features like request history in the free tier.

    There's Yaak which is pretty good aside the fact that it doesn't handle huge requests collections without lagging lile crazy.

    After trying these two, I went back to insomnia.

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  • [–] 13 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    https://github.com/httpie

    They have a CLI as well as a Postman like desktop interface. One thing I prefer about their GUI over Postman is the way variables are defined/edited for multiple environments in a single view.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I could not find the license or source code for their desktop app. Is it even open source?

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago*

    There was postwowan, it is currently renamed to Hoppscotch https://github.com/hoppscotch/hoppscotch

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago

    I use this: https://github.com/darrenburns/posting

    It has a TUI.

    Or you can also just use curl.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago

    I've been using ATAC (Arguably a Terminal API Client) lately because I like everything to match my terminal theme.

    https://github.com/Julien-cpsn/ATAC

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    I've given up on all these tools, as I have found working with your usual test framework (depending on your language) much more convenient after all.

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