Tell HN: Postman just wiped all my stuff

• bruno

  55 18,935 9.9 JavaScript

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

  

I started building my own 100% local tool in response to the current situation with postman and insomnia:

https://github.com/4lejandrito/fetchbook

I really liked Bruno (https://github.com/usebruno/bruno) but I prefer the flexibility of a real language like typescript and the Request Web API standard.

• Postwoman

  212 60,091 9.6 TypeScript

  👽 Open source API development ecosystem - https://hoppscotch.io

  

PostWoman (now called Hopscotch) is a foss clone of (possibly an older version) Postman if you want a 1:1.

https://hoppscotch.io/

If you want "curl but friendly", I like httpie -

• SurveyJS

  surveyjs.io sponsored

  Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  

• Kreya

  25 268 5.3 JavaScript

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

  

As one of the creators, I can recommmend https://kreya.app. It is not open source (like Postman), but has a strong focus on privacy and also stores the data locally.

As it has more powerful features (IMO) than most alternatives listed here, I am a little disappointed that it isn't mentioned more often.

• httpie

  116 31,842 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)

  

• insomnia

  225 33,067 9.7 JavaScript

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

  

I’ve been using https://insomnia.rest/ and it has everything you need and does not require you to log in

• Apache JMeter

  25 7,935 9.3 Java

  Apache JMeter open-source load testing tool for analyzing and measuring the performance of a variety of services

  

FYI some of our people internally use Jmeter. https://jmeter.apache.org/

It's not flashy so it probably wont get the standard "we are going to milk you for data" plan

• ht

  39 4,732 9.0 Rust

  Friendly and fast tool for sending HTTP requests

No, but unless portability is a concern or you're massively familiar with curl, you might want to consider xh. It's much more intuitive.

https://github.com/ducaale/xh

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• fetchbook

  5 147 8.6 TypeScript

  Run and test your HTTP requests. Git friendly, 100% local.

I started building my own 100% local tool in response to the current situation with postman and insomnia:

https://github.com/4lejandrito/fetchbook

I really liked Bruno (https://github.com/usebruno/bruno) but I prefer the flexibility of a real language like typescript and the Request Web API standard.

• insomnium

  11 3,167 8.7 JavaScript

  Insomnium is a fast local API testing tool that is privacy-focused and 100% local. For testing GraphQL, REST, WebSockets and gRPC. This is a fork of Kong/insomnia

  

I’d like to recommend Insomnium, a 100% local-first Insomnia fork. https://archgpt.dev/insomnium

• openapi-typescript

  16 4,556 9.3 TypeScript

  Generate TypeScript types from OpenAPI 3 specs

Glad to see alternatives but disappointed that Bruno does not support OpenAPI specification.

At my company, we hand-edit OpenAPI specs in YAML and it gets consumed by many tools that generate types[0], static analysis and dynamic checks[1]. The OpenAPI spec itself is linted[2]. And of course, Postman consumes OpenAPI.

Tools that are built on open standards will naturally see greater adoption over those that use proprietary formats.

[0]: https://openapi-ts.pages.dev

• restclient.el

  24 1,977 0.0 Emacs Lisp

  Discontinued HTTP REST client tool for emacs

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

Suggest a related project