insomnia
insomnium
insomnia | insomnium | |
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225 | 11 | |
33,244 | 3,221 | |
1.2% | 4.8% | |
9.7 | 8.6 | |
about 14 hours ago | 26 days ago | |
JavaScript | JavaScript | |
Apache License 2.0 | MIT License |
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
insomnia
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Building a RESTful API with Node.js and Express
Use tools like Postman or Insomnia to test the API endpoints and ensure they behave as expected.
- Ask HN: Alternatives to Postman?
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Make your Azure OpenAI apps compliant with RBAC
We will be performing all of the authentication requests manually, however for testing purposes, you might want to use an API testing tool such as Postman or Insomnia.
- The Collaborative API Development Platform – Insomnia
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Local automation
For a very long time, the go-to tool was curl. Great, always available command line tool. Unfortunately, there is one small issue. It’s hard to keep requests and collect them in collections, it’s great for one-time shots or debugging, but for constant working with API could be painful. To solve it, I started working with tools like Postman/Insomnia. Then eh... strange licensing model, or changes which occurred from Kong side click, definitely push me again for some lookup. After checking different very popular tools and those not such well known I decided to use… Ansible. Sounds strange right? Let me explain this decision. For example, look at this code.
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Tools that Make Me Productive as a Software Engineer
At first, I used Postman for testing APIs because it had a lot of features. But I switched to Insomnia because it was easier to use and kept everything organized. The big problem with Insomnia was that it deleted all my saved work when it made me create an account to keep using it.
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Different Levels of Project Documentation
Often used for cases where a project exposes a REST or other type of API service. Open API is a popular method of documenting such API services. It can also be used along side tools such as Swagger Codegen to produce boilerplate code for API interaction / testing purposes. There may also be support files for popular API testing tools such as Postman or Insomnia. This makes it easier at a glance to see what data is coming back from a call so the user knows how to handle parsing the data.
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Web scraping in 10 mins
Well, there is this website that I have been trying to scrape for a few days now. I had tried everything from scrapy splash on docker to almost giving up because I read somewhere that it was JavaScript rendered. Since the source code from the inspect part of the developer tools was different from the source code from the view-source:https//... on the same developer tools.How could this be possible? Then I kept searching on internet and found this concept; where you can mimic web-browsers requests from a server using an API program,and it worked magically. Some of the API programs are postman and insomnia. I prefer using insomnia for this particular case , feel free to use any other API program of your choice.
- Insomnia REST client updated to require signup to use
- GitHub stars are one of the most inexpensive ways to generate an outsized outcome in the community by leveraging the tailwinds of increased adoption
insomnium
- Ask HN: Alternatives to Postman?
- What do you use insomnia or postman and why ?
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Insomnia REST client updated to require signup to use
A previous post linked to a privacy-focused fork of Insomnia known as Insomnium here: https://github.com/ArchGPT/insomnium
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HTTPie Desktop: cross-platform API testing client for humans
https://github.com/ArchGPT/insomnium - and soon with local llm support
disclaimer: I'm the maintainer and my day job is fine-tuning llm
p.s. I will always keep insomnium 100% local & FOSS
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Tell HN: Postman just wiped all my stuff
I’d like to recommend Insomnium, a 100% local-first Insomnia fork. https://archgpt.dev/insomnium
- Insomnium – Local, privacy-focused fork of Insomnia API client
- Show HN: Insomnium – 100% local and privacy-focus fork of Insomnia API client
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Ask HN: How do you manage API collections using cURL?
https://github.com/ArchGPT/insomnium
(IDK if it meets all your reqs, but check it out)
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Bruno: Open-Source IDE for Exploring and Testing APIs
There's also the recent fork of Insomnia, here:
https://github.com/ArchGPT/insomnium
and discussed here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37708582
What are some alternatives?
Hoppscotch - Open source API development ecosystem.
bruno - Opensource IDE For Exploring and Testing Api's (lightweight alternative to postman/insomnia)
altair - ✨⚡️ A beautiful feature-rich GraphQL Client for all platforms.
awesome-api-clients - List of awesome API clients. Postman and Insomnia alternatives
bloomrpc - Former GUI client for gRPC services. No longer maintained.
Visual Studio Code - Visual Studio Code
RecipeUI - Discover, test, and share APIs in seconds
swagger-ui - Swagger UI is a collection of HTML, JavaScript, and CSS assets that dynamically generate beautiful documentation from a Swagger-compliant API.
apidash - API Dash is a beautiful open-source cross-platform API Client built using Flutter which can help you easily create & customize your API requests, visually inspect responses and generate API integration code. A lightweight alternative to postman/insomnia.
httpie - 🥧 HTTPie CLI — modern, user-friendly command-line HTTP client for the API era. JSON support, colors, sessions, downloads, plugins & more.
fetchbook - Run and test your HTTP requests. Git friendly, 100% local.