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You define all your requests in a plaintext format and can inject variables etc... plus the name is kinda funny.

Hi maintainer of Hurl here, thanks for the link; Hurl is using libcurl as its HTTP engine (you can for instance use --curl to get an export of curl commands). In a few words, if you just use Hurl, you just use curl also...

Curious is there a go lib that can read the config file? I’d love to have this in some testing to make it more accessible.

Emacs had something like this long ago (of course it did).

https://github.com/pashky/restclient.el

I also like httpie but they seem to have gone commercial.

I use emacs restclient all the time. I have requests saved in my orgmode notes that I can run with a simple C-c C-c. It's great.

You're using this as well?

https://github.com/alf/ob-restclient.el

Ya I babel all sorts of things. I have sql queries saved in my notes for things like creating a user after I reset the project locally. Common rest queries. I create an orgmode heading for every ticket I pick up and often end up with rest and/or sql queries littered in the notes for testing and development and I can run them right from the notes and when I'm done with the ticket I can just copy/paste them into the pull request description to fill out the manual test steps for those reviewing.

Basically a shell script with a curl invocation in it, except you need to install extra software to execute it. Misses the point of the article.

I mean, the article did say:

  It doesn't need to render a fucking Chromium instance to make a web request. It doesn't depend on a service to run. It doesn't require an "Enterprise" subscription for basic features.

So I'd say it meets all of the criteria except being on your machine already.

Their words, not mine; the first header: "It's already on your machine". We can belabor it, but the domain is 'justuse'. No room for 'except' [unless you're reasonable, of course].

The 'egregious' things are charging to share what will fit very well in SCM (preventing real automation)... and breaking due to Online First/only. It makes sense to require the endpoint I'm talking to. Why would Postman need AWS/us-east-1 [0] for a completely unrelated API? Joyful rent-seeking.

cURL, your suggestion (hurl), or HTTPie all make far more sense. Store what they need in the place where you already store stuff. Profit, for free: never go down. Automate/take people out of the button-pushing pattern for a gold star.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45645172

Yup. Article mentioned `jq` as well. That's an external tool (and so is cURL if we are all being honest here).

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