Ask HN: Developers, do you use Postman for API testing?

1 points_thinx2y ago9 comments

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I have used it for years, but they recently crippled it. it is unusable now.

SoapUI seem like it is too tied down to xml.

does anyone have suggestions?

https://github.com/docsion/rfsh if you are familiar with bash script , feel free to add feature request via PR (e.g run test for postman collection)

I switched to Insomnia a while ago because it's less bloated.

curl

_thinxOP2y ago

me too! or, you can give httpie [1] a try

How do you deal with oauth2 with curl?

Google for “curl oauth2” for lots of helpful explanations and examples.

It's not as straightforward as something like Insomnia because you have to write a script that will open a browser and pull the tokens from there.

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I have used it for years, but they recently crippled it. it is unusable now.

SoapUI seem like it is too tied down to xml.

does anyone have suggestions?

_thinxOP2y ago

https://github.com/docsion/rfsh if you are familiar with bash script , feel free to add feature request via PR (e.g run test for postman collection)

I switched to Insomnia a while ago because it's less bloated.

curl

_thinxOP2y ago

me too! or, you can give httpie [1] a try

How do you deal with oauth2 with curl?

Google for “curl oauth2” for lots of helpful explanations and examples.

It's not as straightforward as something like Insomnia because you have to write a script that will open a browser and pull the tokens from there.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse