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Postman alternatives?

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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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Stopher@reddthat.com
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I am a fan of Insomnia. As far as I can tell it has most of the features I used in postman without all the paid upgrade nags

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crusa187@vlemmy.net
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Seconding Insomnia. Sleeker interface imo, only thing it’s lacking in feature parity afaik is the cookie sniffer, but you can grab what you need in postman or js console and then plug it into insomnia np.

Also, cURL :]

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theherk@lemmy.world
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ducaale/xh is excellent for anybody that likes to use HTTP from a CLI.

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joshuamiller@programming.dev
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Yep, these command line tools seems really cool!

When I was using GUI API Testing tools, I prefer using APIDog, their UI is much easier to use and I can easily migrate my Postman scripts.

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httpjames@sh.itjust.works
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Also a websocket test mode would be nice. It’s something I do miss from Postman

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WHATaDEMAGE@programming.dev
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Insomnia is really good, never looked back at postman since i use Insomnia!

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prwnr@programming.devOP
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never heard about it. gonna give it a try for sure. thanks for the suggestion!

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MaungaHikoi@lemmy.nzM
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The one thing I find difficult in Insomnia is making the auth common across a group of requests. I end up duplicating existing requests which doesn’t help if I need to update the process at all. Is there a way to use common auth routines yet?

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Caio Ramos@lemmy.eco.br
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Insomnia is pretty cool and open-source

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emrikol@lemmy.sdf.org
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I like Insomnia myself

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CosmicPanda@programming.dev
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Another vote for Insomnia here. I used to use Insomnia primarily until a lot of my work switched over to gRPC and I’ve found that Postman works a lot better for that. I still prefer Insomnia for the simple UX and speed, just wish it had better gRPC support.

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Sheldan@programming.dev
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I do have some bugs with Insomnia, for example with the oauth configuration failing. (I think it has something to do with some variable there failing) You can workaround that by just removing oauth, and configuring again, but its annowing.

I still like insomnia overall tho.

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Ray Gay@programming.dev
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Hoppscotch is pretty cool

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