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Hoppscotch Landing Page
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Hoppscotch

Open source API development ecosystem
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Freemium
- Free Trial
There are really goods suggestions in this thread, I just made a compilation of all the links posted (at this time): Restfox https://restfox.dev/ Hoppscotch https://hoppscotch.io/ Hit https://hit.yolo42.com/ HTTP Client https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/http-client-in-product-code-.

#Web App #Productivity #APIs 90 social mentions
Hurl.dev Landing Page
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Hurl.dev

Hurl is a command line tool that runs HTTP requests defined in a simple plain text format.
Pricing:
- Open Source
I have been trying out https://hurl.dev and so far been really liking it. Plain text format, everything runs very quickly locally, it can capture data from previous requests to run workflows and serve as a testing tool.

#Command Line Tools #HTTP #HTTP Test Tool 50 social mentions
RapidAPI for Mac Landing Page

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RapidAPI for Mac

Paw is a REST client for Mac.

Switched away from Postman to a native Mac app and my RAM couldn't be happier (https://paw.cloud).

#API Tools #APIs #Developer Tools 45 social mentions
Insomnia REST Landing Page
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Insomnia REST

Design, debug, test, and mock APIs locally, on Git, or cloud. Build better APIs collaboratively for the most popular protocols with a dev‑friendly UI, built-in automation, and an extensible plugin ecosystem.
Pricing:
- Open Source
I switched to insomnia when postman changed their pricing pulling the rug out from everyone wanting us to pay like $300 more per month. (Before they back tracked) https://insomnia.rest/ I actually prefer it.

#API Tools #API #Developer Tools 129 social mentions
Milkman Landing Page

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Milkman

Milkman is a JavaFx-based workbench for crafting requests / responses. It is not limited to e.g. http (or more specifically rest) requests but can be extended in any imaginable way. It is optimized for fast startup and efficient workflow.

#API Tools #Developer Tools #APIs 5 social mentions
Productivity Power Tools Landing Page
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Productivity Power Tools

Extension for Visual Studio - A set of extensions to Visual Studio 2012 Professional (and above) which improves developer productivity.
Pricing:
- Open Source
If you are a minimalist, and are using VS Code, try https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=humao.rest-client which is a pure text syntax to describe API requests, and execute them right from the editor window. I now have api.http text file in every API-first project I am building and I love it.

#Regular Expressions #Programming Tools #Development 470 social mentions
restclient.el Landing Page

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restclient.el

HTTP REST client tool for emacs

Although I mainly stick with curl or requests due to muscle memory, there's also restclient.el https://github.com/pashky/restclient.el. I imagine having builtin org support is super convenient, thanks for sharing.

#API Tools #Developer Tools #APIs 6 social mentions