Insomnia REST client now requires an account

1. insomnia

   1 243 35,579 9.8 JavaScript

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

   

   My experience:

   1) Receive popup asking if I want to install the latest version (no warning of the consequences of doing so) which I accept

   2) Be greeted by a 'sign in' screen as well as a new Scratchpad icon which doesn't contain any of my projects/collections/requests.. at this point I believe all my data has been wiped (and it probably would've been if I had uninstalled the app when I downgraded instead of overwriting the existing one)

   3) Find comment in GitHub saying I can recover my data by downgrading to https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/releases/tag/core%402023.5.... and update Preferences not to automatically download and install updates

   4) Look for alternatives/wait for community fork

   It's a shame because I have promoted your product to over a hundred classmates/coworkers/friends that were previously using Postman/HTTPie/curl.. even if you didn't financially benefit from my use then it also didn't cost you anything, and I provided a lot of free conversions (some of whom might be using your cloud solutions, no idea)..

   At least version 2023.5.8 is almost perfect so I'll probably be happy with using that for decades if no better alternative appear.. only downside is that the generated code snippets are kinda shitty (especially for golang, and some obvious languages missing) and I guess I won't be benefiting from improvements made there.

   --

   A couple of ideas I would personally pay for with the local version of Insomnia:

   - Create my own code snippets (so I don't need to rewrite code generated from your Generate Client Code).

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3. bruno

   2 74 30,628 9.8 JavaScript

   Opensource IDE For Exploring and Testing Api's (lightweight alternative to postman/insomnia)

   

4. Hoppscotch

   3 233 67,176 9.6 TypeScript

   Open source API development ecosystem.

   

5. Kreya

   4 25 295 1.3 JavaScript

   Kreya is a GUI client for REST and gRPC with innovative features for environments, authorizations and more.

   

   If you need gRPC, I can recommend https://kreya.app/

6. vim-http-client

   5 2 186 10.0 Python

   Forget your curl today! Make HTTP requests from Vim without wrestling the command line!

   If you are using vim, you could try this one https://github.com/aquach/vim-http-client. I have been using it for some time and it has worked well. Use in your local file system, integrates well with vim but I had to fork it since it didn't had a timeout setting.

7. Restfox

   6 12 2,181 9.6 Vue

   Offline-First Minimalistic HTTP & Socket Testing Client for the Web & Desktop

   

8. httpie

   7 130 34,679 6.6 Python

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

   

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10. ht

    8 40 6,048 8.5 Rust

    Friendly and fast tool for sending HTTP requests

    

11. postman-app-support

    9 280 5,885 2.7

    Postman is an API platform for building and using APIs. Postman simplifies each step of the API lifecycle and streamlines collaboration so you can create better APIs—faster.

    

    Do you have any details on the equivalent Postman change? How long ago did Postman force users to create an account? I found this github issue, but I'm not sure if it's what everyone keeps referencing.

    https://github.com/postmanlabs/postman-app-support/issues/12...

12. stepci

    10 46 1,693 7.4 TypeScript

    Automated API Testing and Quality Assurance

    

    For automated testing, you should give Step CI (https://github.com/stepci/stepci) a try

    Ps. I helped build it

13. hurl

    11 56 14,003 9.9 Rust

    Hurl, run and test HTTP requests with plain text.

    

    No, you got what's you write. If you want, you can see the run curl's command, save it in a script and replay it without Hurl. You can check the source code here [1]

    [1]: https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource/hurl

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