HTTPie Desktop: cross-platform API testing client for humans

• desktop

  11 2,229 4.0

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

  

Here I suppose?

https://github.com/httpie/desktop/archive/refs/tags/v2023.3....

• bruno

  55 18,935 9.9 JavaScript

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

  

Check out bruno[0]. It's decent for what it is, replaced Insomnia when they made some dumb moves a week or so ago and is completely file based though I wish there were ways to make less files. I don't want to check in so much stuff every time I make a change. It's still missing a few features but the dev seems passionate and there's frequent updates

[0] https://www.usebruno.com/

• 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.

  

• dot-http

  2 155 0.0 Rust

  dot-http is a text-based scriptable HTTP client

• cursive

  3 570 7.7

  Cursive: The IDE for beautiful Clojure code (by cursive-ide)

It would be a little funny that GitHub, a proprietary code hosting platform, suddenly cares that proprietary software uses it to host bug reports or other assets. This isn't the first project I've seen that is nothing more than a README and exists simply for people to file issues. e.g. there is https://github.com/cursive-ide/cursive

With that said, Codeberg has a strict policy of hosting software licensed under an OSI or FSF approved license.[1] They will actually take down repositories that do not follow this guideline.

[1] https://docs.codeberg.org/getting-started/faq/#can-i-host-so...

• 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)

  

Their project that I am most familiar with is there CLI https://github.com/httpie/cli

• milkman

  10 1,060 8.4 Java

  An Extensible Request/Response Workbench

• 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

  

https://github.com/ArchGPT/insomnium - and soon with local llm support

disclaimer: I'm the maintainer and my day job is fine-tuning llm

p.s. I will always keep insomnium 100% local & FOSS

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• Kreya

  25 268 5.3 JavaScript

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

  

Kreya [1] can do that. It is even optimized for it, so that diffs should be perfectly readable.

[1] https://kreya.app

• yq

  66 10,802 9.2 Go

  yq is a portable command-line YAML, JSON, XML, CSV, TOML and properties processor

After which, I use openapi-generator to make a yaml output.

https://gist.github.com/freshteapot/3637e8d2b5ecdf01b7d25246...

- yq version 3.4.1 (Worth noting, the example uses an out of date yq, so a few modifictaions might be needed)

https://github.com/mikefarah/yq

• vscode-httpyac

  2 207 8.3 TypeScript

  Quickly and easily send REST, Soap, GraphQL, GRPC, MQTT and WebSocket requests directly within Visual Studio Code

• ht

  39 4,732 9.0 Rust

  Friendly and fast tool for sending HTTP requests

HTTPie is great and was a big improvement for me over cURL.

However, I ended up switching to xh[1] as it's significantly faster and I prefer its output.

https://github.com/ducaale/xh

• CyberChef

  286 25,541 8.8 JavaScript

  The Cyber Swiss Army Knife - a web app for encryption, encoding, compression and data analysis

  

• k6

  20 23,316 9.6 Go

  A modern load testing tool, using Go and JavaScript - https://k6.io

  

I know this is about Desktop HTTP testing but has anyone experimented with command-line HTTP testing?

I recall having a good experience with https://github.com/grafana/k6 some eons ago.

It's geared towards writing load testing in JS but it also allows you to check HTTP body, headers, etc.

• 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.

  

There was some discussion and links on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37708582 recently - tldr, Insomnia now requires a cloud account and can’t run purely locally.

See also https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/issues/6606

• Kaitai Struct

  44 3,830 7.5 Shell

  Kaitai Struct: declarative language to generate binary data parsers in C++ / C# / Go / Java / JavaScript / Lua / Nim / Perl / PHP / Python / Ruby

  

Beautiful. Didn't know something like this exists. Reminds me of Katai[0]

[0]. https://kaitai.io/

• hof

  33 475 8.9 Go

  Framework that joins data models, schemas, code generation, and a task engine. Language and technology agnostic.

  

CUE is indeed a beautiful language, will get those mind juices flowing for sure!

There is more work to be done on the codec implementation, but if you just want to split yaml/json across files, CUE is a great option

You might also like my project, built on CUE: https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof We have a TUI where you can explore and work with CUE, JSON, Yaml

• 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.

  

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