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Re:Best Alternatives to Postman? by augbot on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @02:52PM (#25202326)
I have had success with Insomnia: https://insomnia.rest
Re:Best Alternatives to Postman? by fiftyacorn on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @05:49AM (#25207875)
I prefer insomnia
Re:Best Alternatives to Postman? by aosaigh on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @02:19PM (#25201983)
I use Paw for MacOS:

https://paw.cloud/

Nice native experience. No subscriptions.

Re:Best Alternatives to Postman? by trilinearnz on Saturday November 28, 2020 @11:59PM (#25243023)
My personal choice: Talend API Tester - Free Edition (formerly called 'Restlet').

It's straightforward, and (most importantly for me) works seamlessly through a corporate proxy. I also like it's approach for having a hierarchical tree of saved queries, which can be easily exported and traded between developers (I'm sure there are superior, centralised solutions but this works well in our team).

Re:Best Alternatives to Postman? by oldsklgdfth on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @07:14AM (#25208392)
I read this and thought you were referring to Neil Postman.

I've read some of his books - Amusing ourselves to death and Technopoly - which I would recommend to anyone.

The first is regarding the effect different mediums of communication have on the messages we transmit in them. How do the messages you transmit with say smoke-signal, writing and tv differ?

The second talks about technology for technology sake, rather than a means to an end. Increasingly relevant today.

Re:Best Alternatives to Postman? by thiht on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @03:32PM (#25202710)
I guess it depends on why you want to find an alternative.

I used to use Insomnia, but switched to Postman and never looked back.

I gave Paw a try and it was pretty neat, but not as easy to use as Postman.

Re:Best Alternatives to Postman? by phendrenad2 on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @01:05PM (#25201085)
I use Curl exclusively. As far as command-line interfaces go, it's not that bad. Some of the command-line arguments are a lie though, and do less or more than they claim. So my trick is, I just copy-paste a big multi-line Curl command from my notes every time, and edit it as needed.
Re:Best Alternatives to Postman? by gofreddygo on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @06:28PM (#25204253)
Same here. Curl works wonderfully. Takes time to build your scripts but they pay off in spades. We dump all this in a git repo. Much easier to diff and reason about than postman environment.json and collection.json files (and maintaining a compatibility matrix).
Re:Best Alternatives to Postman? by potta_coffee on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @11:54AM (#25211292)
My process is similar but I've taken to using HttPie more than curl.
Re:Best Alternatives to Postman? by rachitpandey on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @01:07PM (#25201104)
Looking for a tool to streamline API development process. From requirement submission to creating and finally sharing the created API for the end user
Re:Best Alternatives to Postman? by gofreddygo on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @06:29PM (#25204262)
can you share an example of what this looks like ? I can imagine bash scripts to work just great for this.
Re:Best Alternatives to Postman? by factorialboy on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @05:12PM (#25203563)
Python with `requests` library let me automate / test far more efficiently than any GUI tool
Re:Best Alternatives to Postman? by 2rsf on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @04:35AM (#25207436)
I also use Python in a debugger environment where you can examine the responses for testing, but for small add hock tests Postman is still better.

Postman's code generation is also a neat feature.

Re:Best Alternatives to Postman? by gabrielsroka on Thursday November 26, 2020 @11:29AM (#25221326)
Re:Best Alternatives to Postman? by mtmail on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @12:35PM (#25200747)
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=alternatives+to+postman lists dozens each with their pros and cons.
Re:Best Alternatives to Postman? by jamil7 on Friday November 27, 2020 @02:59AM (#25226441)
Re:Best Alternatives to Postman? by makio on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @12:41PM (#25200803)
depends on your definition.I solve these kind of problems using httpie. it's console based. It really has everything I need.
Re:Best Alternatives to Postman? by rachitpandey on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @01:06PM (#25201100)
Looking for a tool to streamline API development process. From requirement submission to creating and finally sharing the created API for the end user
Re:Best Alternatives to Postman? by dylz on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @02:31PM (#25202113)
openapi/swagger
Re:Best Alternatives to Postman? by stevavoliajvar on Saturday November 28, 2020 @08:20AM (#25237343)
Re:Best Alternatives to Postman? by bradknowles on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @12:46AM (#25206326)
You’ve heard of Newman, right? Postman’s CLI tool?
Re:Best Alternatives to Postman? by approxim8ion on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @03:20PM (#25202585)
Advanced REST Client works fine for me.
Re:Best Alternatives to Postman? by obayesshelton on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @06:49AM (#25208248)
Any reason why you want to swap? Just curious
Re:Best Alternatives to Postman? by URfejk on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @03:48PM (#25202855)
Postwoman/Postgirl :)