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Postman alternatives?
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Maybe try Swagger
xh and tiny shell scripts.
Example: sign-up-forbidden-username.req
#!/bin/bash
xh POST http://0.0.0.0:2884/sign-up usename=admin password=pw
to run ./sign-up-forbidden-username.req
This returns 403 and "Username is unavailable"
xh is a rust implementation of httpie. They're going for full parity, and works really well for what I need it for so far You can also read input from a file. Which IMO makes GUI API testing seem silly.
Insomnia used to be good, but it's WebKit, so really heavy to run, it crashed my PC several times
As a lot of other comments have already suggested, HTTP Toolkit is a good alternative and I used it quite a bit prior to discovering Postman..
this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2023
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