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Best Alternative to Postman?
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this post was submitted on 31 Dec 2024
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I'm genuinely wondering, if this is a situation where the open-source community just uses curl and that's why there's only corporate gunk for those who want more features. For example, curl obviously won't support Excel import, but folks in the open-source community are also very unlikely to want that...
You can easily write a script to make curl requests from a CSV.
Yeah. Pretty much. As one of the folks who could code a new solution in
goin a weekend, I have not - becausecurlplus some trivial one-liners in Bash, Python or PowerShell is already a 90% solution to what I need.Depending on exactly what you mean by importing from excel, there are libraries for Perl/Python/your scripting language of choice that will simplify that so it becomes a matter of a fairly small amount of code to build a test harness that does exactly what you want.
Well, OP mentioned an Excel import, so I'm not 100% sure what that means either. ๐
But yeah, that's part of why I'm wondering. I hardly know anything about Postman, so I'm probably underestimating how complex this would be, but it still feels like at least the core feature-set could easily be covered by an open-source tool, if anyone in the open-source community had that itch to scratch.
Maybe it's also just solving a problem that only companies have? The webpage mentions some things about centrally managing API definitions. Do not ask me why the API definitions are not in a repo. But I guess, if you join a company that works like that, you're not going lean up against that...