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I'm looking at alternatives that are guarantee to work locally and only found the following:

Posting.sh -> Postman imports are experimental which makes it a non-starter for people like myself with large Postman collections. TUI only also makes it harder to switch.

Insomnia -> Owned by another large tech company.

Yaak -> Made by the same guy who created AND SOLD Insomnia above. Not exactly comforting to switch over for. How long till this one also gets sold?

Any other great local tools out there? I would like to be done with Postman.

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There’s also Bruno!

« Offline only - We take security and privacy seriously. Bruno is an offline tool and there is no syncing of your data to any cloud »

https://www.usebruno.com/

Restfox [1] is worth checking out. It's fully offline and lets you version control your collections with git or any sync tool you prefer. The postman import is well tested and the app also allows you to export back to Postman collections.

Disclaimer: I maintain it.

[1] https://github.com/flawiddsouza/Restfox

I ctrl+f'ed to find Restfox to also give my recommendation. It's a great tool, thanks for maintaining it! :-)

I use a simple bash script:

    #!/bin/bash -x

    TOK="my-jwt-tok"

    case "$1" in
        get-foo)
            curl -H "header: bearer $TOK" "http://www.example.com/foo" | jq .
            ;;

        post-bar)
            curl \
              -H "header: bearer $TOK" "http://www.example.com/bar" \
              -H "content-type: application/json" \
              --data-raw '{"baz":"bap"}'

            ;;  
        *)
            ;;  

    esac

used like:

    ./example.bash get-foo

I know it doesn't have the functionality of postman, but this is how I build up interactions with a new API.

I would like to put the request body into a file and use it with `@file.json`.

I'm one of the creators of Kreya [1]. We were one (or the) first to support a fully-offline, git-centric local data storage in this space.

Kreya is privacy-first since its first commit five years ago, since we were fed up with Postman and Insomnia. Happy to answer any questions

[1] https://kreya.app

RapidAPI for Mac, formerly Paw, it's free for individuals.

https://paw.cloud/

Self host Yaade. If you dont have a server run it locally in a Docker container.

I just memorized curl like a lunatic.

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