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Best Alternatives to Postman?

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What are the best alternates for postman and why, if you guys can help.. :)

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I have had success with Insomnia: https://insomnia.rest

I prefer insomnia

I use Paw for MacOS:

https://paw.cloud/

Nice native experience. No subscriptions.

My personal choice: Talend API Tester - Free Edition (formerly called 'Restlet').

It's straightforward, and (most importantly for me) works seamlessly through a corporate proxy. I also like it's approach for having a hierarchical tree of saved queries, which can be easily exported and traded between developers (I'm sure there are superior, centralised solutions but this works well in our team).

I read this and thought you were referring to Neil Postman.

I've read some of his books - Amusing ourselves to death and Technopoly - which I would recommend to anyone.

The first is regarding the effect different mediums of communication have on the messages we transmit in them. How do the messages you transmit with say smoke-signal, writing and tv differ?

The second talks about technology for technology sake, rather than a means to an end. Increasingly relevant today.

I guess it depends on why you want to find an alternative.

I used to use Insomnia, but switched to Postman and never looked back.

I gave Paw a try and it was pretty neat, but not as easy to use as Postman.

I use Curl exclusively. As far as command-line interfaces go, it's not that bad. Some of the command-line arguments are a lie though, and do less or more than they claim. So my trick is, I just copy-paste a big multi-line Curl command from my notes every time, and edit it as needed.

Looking for a tool to streamline API development process. From requirement submission to creating and finally sharing the created API for the end user

can you share an example of what this looks like ? I can imagine bash scripts to work just great for this.

Same here. Curl works wonderfully. Takes time to build your scripts but they pay off in spades. We dump all this in a git repo. Much easier to diff and reason about than postman environment.json and collection.json files (and maintaining a compatibility matrix).

My process is similar but I've taken to using HttPie more than curl.

Python with `requests` library let me automate / test far more efficiently than any GUI tool

I also use Python in a debugger environment where you can examine the responses for testing, but for small add hock tests Postman is still better.

Postman's code generation is also a neat feature.

I wrote my own mini-Postman https://gabrielsroka.github.io/APIExplorer/

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=alternatives+to+postman lists dozens each with their pros and cons.

https://proxyman.io/

depends on your definition.I solve these kind of problems using httpie. it's console based. It really has everything I need.

Looking for a tool to streamline API development process. From requirement submission to creating and finally sharing the created API for the end user

openapi/swagger

try this https://hoppscotch.io/

You’ve heard of Newman, right? Postman’s CLI tool?

Advanced REST Client works fine for me.

Any reason why you want to swap? Just curious

Postwoman/Postgirl :)

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