On: Insomnia REST client now requires an account

[PH95VuimJjqBqy]

what alternatives exist?

I literally just switched to insomnia due to postman doing this so I'm a bit stuck now. Do I go back to fiddler?

[stonecharioteer → PH95VuimJjqBqy]

I ditched all these in favour of curl or xh a couple of years ago. Keep my recipes in shell scripts with documentation. Solves everything for me.

[bdavisx → stonecharioteer]

This makes it relatively easy to chain calls if necessary - call one api to get a authn token and then call another with the token you just got. I think that postman and insomnia can do that, but it's a breeze from the command line.

[dhpn → PH95VuimJjqBqy]

Not exactly the same, but I switched from Insomnia to Hurl. https://hurl.dev/

[naikrovek → dhpn]

this is interesting, thank you

[jicea → naikrovek]

Thanks for mentioning Hurl [1] (maintainer here!)

If you're looking for a tool with a nice UI, Hurl might not be the ideal choice. We're focusing our tool on CLI usage and CI/CD integration.

On the other side, Hurl is a pure Open Source tool, we're not VC backed. The tool is given to the community by a big French telco, Orange, which use it and has no intention to be in the software business. In a word, there is less chance for Hurl to fell into Postman or Insomnia fate...

[1]: https://hurl.dev

[byyll → PH95VuimJjqBqy]

https://github.com/usebruno/bruno, https://github.com/hoppscotch/hoppscotch, https://github.com/flawiddsouza/Restfox

If you want a more minimal solution/CLI https://github.com/httpie/cli and https://github.com/ducaale/xh work

[pihug12 → PH95VuimJjqBqy]

Bruno maybe? (https://www.usebruno.com/ && https://github.com/usebruno/bruno)

[oceanic → pihug12]

Just downloaded Bruno and it looks great! Thanks very much.

[cwdegidio → PH95VuimJjqBqy]

Paw is always an option if you are on a Mac... I don't know if it available on PC

[paradox460 → cwdegidio]

They were bought by rapid API so there might be a Mac version now

[jurassicfoxy → paradox460]

I was really disappointed with the Rapid API buyout, but anyway, the client for Mac seems essentially unchanged, is the good news.

The weird thing is that I can find NO mention of the client on their site: https://rapidapi.com/products/build-apis/

Which, to me, is a bad sign. I suspect someday I'll be forced to give it up.

[Badumtss8 → PH95VuimJjqBqy]

https://hoppscotch.io/

https://recipeui.com/

[splix → PH95VuimJjqBqy]

If you need gRPC, I can recommend https://kreya.app/

[paradox460 → PH95VuimJjqBqy]

I've been using LiveBook and doing my requests and such in there. If you're not an Elixir shop you could probably do something similar with jupyter

[nerdo → PH95VuimJjqBqy]

Thunder Client VS Code extension.

[ok_dad → nerdo]

Unfortunately I think they’re doing similar things with this extension. Last I checked, they locked some functionality behind a paywall that was formerly free and now they have several weird tiers of pricing with revenue limits and other bullshit.

https://www.thunderclient.com/pricing