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Postman alternatives? (programming.dev)
submitted 1 year ago by prwnr@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev
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I would like to hear if any of you are using different app for API testing than Postman.

I’m not telling that Postman is bad, but maybe there’s all that I should check out. Recently I tried RapidApi and even tho the app is kinda cool I missed few options and went back to Postman for now.

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[-] alchemist_dev@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

xh and tiny shell scripts.

Example: sign-up-forbidden-username.req

#!/bin/bash
xh POST http://0.0.0.0:2884/sign-up usename=admin password=pw

to run ./sign-up-forbidden-username.req

This returns 403 and "Username is unavailable"

https://github.com/ducaale/xh

xh is a rust implementation of httpie. They're going for full parity, and works really well for what I need it for so far You can also read input from a file. Which IMO makes GUI API testing seem silly.

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