httpyac
Command Line Interface for *.http and *.rest files. Connect with http, gRPC, WebSocket and MQTT (by AnWeber)
ob-restclient.el
An org-mode extension to restclient.el (by alf)
| httpyac | ob-restclient.el | |
|---|---|---|
| 9 | 5 | |
| 839 | 224 | |
| 3.3% | 0.0% | |
| 2.8 | 2.0 | |
| 3 months ago | 10 months ago | |
| TypeScript | Emacs Lisp | |
| MIT License | - |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
httpyac
Posts with mentions or reviews of httpyac.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2026-05-21.
- Slumber a TUI HTTP Client
- Meet httpOwl: Run HTTP Requests From Any Webpage
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The 2025 Guide to Postman's Most Powerful Alternatives! Top 30 Free API Tools
Website: httpYac Git: https://github.com/AnWeber/httpyac
- Quickly and easily send REST, SOAP, GraphQL and gRPC requests
- Show HN: Yaak – An Open Source, Git-Friendly Desktop API Client
- Beyond OpenAPI
- Hurl, run and test HTTP requests with plain text
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Hoppscotch: Open-Source Alternative to Postman
There's also https://httpyac.github.io/ which has both standalone CLI and VS Code extension versions – might be interesting to explore.
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Postman Now Supports gRPC
Here is the github repo for httpyac [1]. Not sure why it's not part of the httpyac org that hosts the site.
[1] https://github.com/AnWeber/httpyac
ob-restclient.el
Posts with mentions or reviews of ob-restclient.el.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-10.
- Emacs as REST API client?
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Postman is limiting local collection runner to 25 runs for basic plans
The readme mentions someone wrote an ob-restclient.el https://github.com/alf/ob-restclient.el
- Hurl, run and test HTTP requests with plain text
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HTTPie/cURL client for Emacs?
Adding to that, there is also ob-restclient , which could be useful.
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Bikeshedding Friday: How do you organize your init file?
Between org babel SQL and ob-restclient literate integration testing and devops have become a (small) part of my team's dev-QA loop. For some things, it's turned out to be indispensable. If you haven't used org-mode and restclient for API documentation yet... give it a whirl. Beautiful exports use read-the-org HTML export theme.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing httpyac and ob-restclient.el you can also consider the following projects:
httptoolkit - HTTP Toolkit is a beautiful & open-source tool for debugging, testing and building with HTTP(S) on Windows, Linux & Mac :tada: Open an issue here to give feedback or ask for help.
dotfiles
restclient.el - HTTP REST client tool for emacs
verb - HTTP client for Emacs
Kreya - Kreya is a GUI client for REST and gRPC with innovative features for environments, authorizations and more.
katt - KATT (Klarna API Testing Tool) is an HTTP-based API testing tool for Erlang.