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by astrod 1522 days ago
Any terminal based solutions for Postman/Insomnia/Nightingale? I am just using curl and text files for api testing.
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I found https://github.com/hoppscotch/hoppscotch recently and it's quite nice. There's also a VSCode extension that doesn't look like it's actively developed any more: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=rangav.v...
Try https://httpie.io/cli

No affiliation... just happy user relieved at deleting Postman :)

Also xh and curlie
From much earlier [1], hurl [2] supports some really great features and definitely worth looking into for repetitive HTTP tasks.

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[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31009609

[2] https://hurl.dev

[3] https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource/hurl

There is a cli tool to run postman collections: https://github.com/postmanlabs/newman

You still have to create the collections in Postman, however.