RESTED vs restclient.el

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RESTED		restclient.el
	Project
1	Mentions	24
279	Stars	1,977
0.0%	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	0.0
over 1 year ago	Latest Commit	about 2 months ago
JavaScript	Language	Emacs Lisp
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	-

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RESTED

Posts with mentions or reviews of RESTED. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-28.

Hoppscotch: Open-Source Alternative to Postman
17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Feb 2022

I often use the RESTED firefox extension, which covers like 90% of my adhoc http request needs: https://github.com/RESTEDClient/RESTED

restclient.el

Posts with mentions or reviews of restclient.el. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-09.

Emacs Advent Calendar 9: devdocs, code-cells, dREPL, etc.
17 projects | /r/emacs | 9 Dec 2023

plz-see: Interactive HTTP client, similar to restclient and verb, but using Elisp instead of a special text-based syntax.
Tell HN: Postman just wiped all my stuff
15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Oct 2023

There's a great Emacs mode, and it looks like it works in the same way, putting it in a file:
https://github.com/pashky/restclient.el
Show HN: Insomnium – 100% local and privacy-focus fork of Insomnia API client
8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Sep 2023
Beyond OpenAPI
12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Sep 2023
jq 1.7 Released
33 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Sep 2023
Hurl 4.0.0
6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Jun 2023

Emacs enthusiasts have https://github.com/pashky/restclient.el
I see some parallels to Hurl, but having everything inside Emacs is hard to beat, just thinking about using M-x jq-interactivly for json responses ...
Emacs as REST API client?
5 projects | /r/emacs | 10 May 2023
Is there an emacs package that is created by wrapping a famous command-line interface?
1 project | /r/emacs | 7 Mar 2023
HTTP REST Client for Emacs
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Nov 2022
Hurl, run and test HTTP requests with plain text
14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Nov 2022

I recently switch from custom Bash wrappers around curl to restclient.el [1]. It has similar features. Especially nice is the integration with jq for fetching specific data (or inspection of results with jq-mode). And, whoever is inclined to appreciate it, the fact that I can stay within Emacs. No need to get familiar with a new UI/UX.
[1]: https://github.com/pashky/restclient.el

What are some alternatives?

When comparing RESTED and restclient.el you can also consider the following projects:

desktop - 🚀 HTTPie Desktop — cross-platform API testing client for humans. Painlessly test REST, GraphQL, and HTTP APIs.

httpyac - Command Line Interface for *.http and *.rest files. Connect with http, gRPC, WebSocket and MQTT

insomnia - The open-source, cross-platform API client for GraphQL, REST, WebSockets, SSE and gRPC. With Cloud, Local and Git storage.

verb - Organize and send HTTP requests from Emacs

nightingale-rest-api-client - A modern, resource-efficient REST API client for Windows

jq-mode - Emacs major mode for editing jq queries.

ht - Friendly and fast tool for sending HTTP requests

ob-graphql - GraphQL execution backend for org-babel

httpie - 🥧 HTTPie CLI — modern, user-friendly command-line HTTP client for the API era. JSON support, colors, sessions, downloads, plugins & more.

hurl - Hurl, run and test HTTP requests with plain text.

probster - A simple GTK app for http testing

vscodium - binary releases of VS Code without MS branding/telemetry/licensing