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what alternatives exist? I literally just switched to insomnia due to postman doing this so I'm a bit stuck now. Do I go back to fiddler?

dhpn 3y ago
Not exactly the same, but I switched from Insomnia to Hurl. https://hurl.dev/ https://hurl.dev/
- naikrovek 3y ago
  this is interesting, thank you
  - jicea 3y ago
    Thanks for mentioning Hurl [1] (maintainer here!) If you're looking for a tool with a nice UI, Hurl might not be the ideal choice. We're focusing our tool on CLI usage and CI/CD integration. On the other side, Hurl is a pure Open Source tool, we're not VC backed. The tool is given to the community by a big French telco, Orange, which use it and has no intention to be in the software business. In a word, there is less chance for Hurl to fell into Postman or Insomnia fate... [1]: https://hurl.dev https://hurl.dev
stonecharioteer 3y ago
I ditched all these in favour of curl or xh a couple of years ago. Keep my recipes in shell scripts with documentation. Solves everything for me.
- bdavisx 3y ago
  This makes it relatively easy to chain calls if necessary - call one api to get a authn token and then call another with the token you just got. I think that postman and insomnia can do that, but it's a breeze from the command line.
pihug12 3y ago
Bruno maybe? (https://www.usebruno.com/ https://www.usebruno.com/ && https://github.com/usebruno/bruno https://github.com/usebruno/bruno)
- oceanic 3y ago
  Just downloaded Bruno and it looks great! Thanks very much.
nerdo 3y ago
Thunder Client VS Code extension.
- ok_dad 3y ago
  Unfortunately I think they’re doing similar things with this extension. Last I checked, they locked some functionality behind a paywall that was formerly free and now they have several weird tiers of pricing with revenue limits and other bullshit. https://www.thunderclient.com/pricing https://www.thunderclient.com/pricing
cwdegidio 3y ago
Paw is always an option if you are on a Mac... I don't know if it available on PC
- paradox460 3y ago
  They were bought by rapid API so there might be a Mac version now
  - jurassicfoxy 3y ago
    I was really disappointed with the Rapid API buyout, but anyway, the client for Mac seems essentially unchanged, is the good news. The weird thing is that I can find NO mention of the client on their site: https://rapidapi.com/products/build-apis/ https://rapidapi.com/products/build-apis/ Which, to me, is a bad sign. I suspect someday I'll be forced to give it up.
Badumtss8 3y ago
https://hoppscotch.io/ https://hoppscotch.io/ https://recipeui.com/ https://recipeui.com/
paradox460 3y ago
I've been using LiveBook and doing my requests and such in there. If you're not an Elixir shop you could probably do something similar with jupyter
splix 3y ago
If you need gRPC, I can recommend https://kreya.app/ https://kreya.app/
byyll 3y ago
https://github.com/usebruno/bruno https://github.com/usebruno/bruno, https://github.com/hoppscotch/hoppscotch https://github.com/hoppscotch/hoppscotch, https://github.com/flawiddsouza/Restfox https://github.com/flawiddsouza/Restfox If you want a more minimal solution/CLI https://github.com/httpie/cli https://github.com/httpie/cli and https://github.com/ducaale/xh https://github.com/ducaale/xh work

dhpn 3y ago

Not exactly the same, but I switched from Insomnia to Hurl. https://hurl.dev/ https://hurl.dev/

naikrovek 3y ago
this is interesting, thank you
- jicea 3y ago
  Thanks for mentioning Hurl [1] (maintainer here!) If you're looking for a tool with a nice UI, Hurl might not be the ideal choice. We're focusing our tool on CLI usage and CI/CD integration. On the other side, Hurl is a pure Open Source tool, we're not VC backed. The tool is given to the community by a big French telco, Orange, which use it and has no intention to be in the software business. In a word, there is less chance for Hurl to fell into Postman or Insomnia fate... [1]: https://hurl.dev https://hurl.dev

stonecharioteer 3y ago

I ditched all these in favour of curl or xh a couple of years ago. Keep my recipes in shell scripts with documentation. Solves everything for me.

bdavisx 3y ago
This makes it relatively easy to chain calls if necessary - call one api to get a authn token and then call another with the token you just got. I think that postman and insomnia can do that, but it's a breeze from the command line.

pihug12 3y ago

Bruno maybe? (https://www.usebruno.com/ https://www.usebruno.com/ && https://github.com/usebruno/bruno https://github.com/usebruno/bruno)

oceanic 3y ago
Just downloaded Bruno and it looks great! Thanks very much.

nerdo 3y ago

Thunder Client VS Code extension.

ok_dad 3y ago
Unfortunately I think they’re doing similar things with this extension. Last I checked, they locked some functionality behind a paywall that was formerly free and now they have several weird tiers of pricing with revenue limits and other bullshit. https://www.thunderclient.com/pricing https://www.thunderclient.com/pricing

cwdegidio 3y ago

Paw is always an option if you are on a Mac... I don't know if it available on PC

paradox460 3y ago
They were bought by rapid API so there might be a Mac version now
- jurassicfoxy 3y ago
  I was really disappointed with the Rapid API buyout, but anyway, the client for Mac seems essentially unchanged, is the good news. The weird thing is that I can find NO mention of the client on their site: https://rapidapi.com/products/build-apis/ https://rapidapi.com/products/build-apis/ Which, to me, is a bad sign. I suspect someday I'll be forced to give it up.

Badumtss8 3y ago

https://hoppscotch.io/ https://hoppscotch.io/ https://recipeui.com/ https://recipeui.com/

paradox460 3y ago

I've been using LiveBook and doing my requests and such in there. If you're not an Elixir shop you could probably do something similar with jupyter

splix 3y ago

If you need gRPC, I can recommend https://kreya.app/ https://kreya.app/

byyll 3y ago

https://github.com/usebruno/bruno https://github.com/usebruno/bruno, https://github.com/hoppscotch/hoppscotch https://github.com/hoppscotch/hoppscotch, https://github.com/flawiddsouza/Restfox https://github.com/flawiddsouza/Restfox If you want a more minimal solution/CLI https://github.com/httpie/cli https://github.com/httpie/cli and https://github.com/ducaale/xh https://github.com/ducaale/xh work