Show HN: Open source Postman alternative with type safety

Re:Show HN: Open source Postman alternative with type safety by contravariant on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @05:29AM (#37402959)

Honestly I'm still not entirely sold on the idea of Postman, for sending a simple HTTP request I find the python requests library a lot more intuitive to work with.

Then again I'm mostly looking at APIs to eventually use them in some other python script so perhaps my use case is not the best fit.

Unless the API does something weird you can do a lot worse than using curl and bash. I mean even using telnet (or openssl s_client) is not too bad if you're only doing a simple GET.

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Re:Show HN: Open source Postman alternative with type safety by OtomotO on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @05:51AM (#37403100)

It definitely is. I am using curl and postman, but I never work(ed) in/with python apart from one course at university

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Re:Show HN: Open source Postman alternative with type safety by JoBrad on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @08:26AM (#37404072)

Postman is great for sharing API collections with others, especially if they aren’t a developer. Adding type safety to it is a great way to provide hints for acceptable values.

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