Hoppscotch: Open-source alternative to Postman

Why are all of the API clients so intent on storing all your requests and environment config in the cloud?<p>We would keep a directory of relevant collections and environments inside all our application repos, so they would simply be committed along with the code, be versioned, included in PR reviews, etc. But it looks like <i>all</i> of the popular REST client tools use some hidden cloud services. This is also terrible from a security perspective, since environment variables are likely to include secrets.

I&#x27;ve used both Postman and Insomnia, but recently I&#x27;ve been using the REST Client plugin (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;marketplace.visualstudio.com&#x2F;items?itemName=humao.rest-client" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;marketplace.visualstudio.com&#x2F;items?itemName=humao.re...</a>). It&#x27;s not a feature-rich, but I honestly like the workflow of not having to switch apps and work with files in my editor (as well as put variables in a .env)

I&#x27;ll give it a go, looks promising! I have had a great time with Insomnia (insomnia.rest) and pretty much anyone I recommended it to ended up sticking with it. Postman has became way too bloated, it&#x27;s amazing to see how there&#x27;s always room for new and slimmer approaches.

<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thunderclient.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thunderclient.com&#x2F;</a><p>This one&#x27;s great. Like postman, but a vscode extension.<p>Although my muscle memory still automatically goes to postman when I want to make requests

My main grouse with these REST GUI clients is how much memory they consume. Maybe because they are electron apps in the end, but it&#x27;s just funny that nobody&#x27;s devoting any time to create native apps anymore for something that should be a utility and not the main app.

I&#x27;ve been using <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;insomnia.rest&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;insomnia.rest&#x2F;</a> and I am a massive fan. From the ability to make dependent API calls to say log in with one API call, and inject login tokens into the other from the first&#x27;s response is amazing!<p>Overall this tool has been my go-to for 3 years now.

I wrote <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;lnenad&#x2F;probster" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;lnenad&#x2F;probster</a> using GTK3 so it can be used on weak machines, top ram usage was 40MBs in my experience. It&#x27;s pretty barebones though.

Is there a command line tool or editor plugin where I don&#x27;t have to specify parameters, learn all the options. Instead I would just point it to an &quot;http file&quot; with http syntax and it &quot;runs&quot; it. Meaning the file contents are the http request that I want to send, eg<p><pre><code> GET &#x2F; HTTP&#x2F;1.1 Cookie: Accept: text&#x2F;html,... Host: news.ycombinator.com Accept-Language: en-GB,en;q=0.9 Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br Connection: keep-alive </code></pre> And the I can just run it like so `http myRequest.http` There are some decade old sublime text plugins that claim to do this, but none of them seem to work anymore, from what I&#x27;m seeing.

Hi HN community, Hoppscotch author here. Ask Me Anything - Liyas (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;liyasthomas" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;liyasthomas</a>)

Hoppscotch raised money right? Unfortunately the nature of most VC backed companies is to believe features are the answer to monetization and enterprise adoption. These things quickly become bloated because of that. So people slamming Postman, yes the product has become a Swiss army knife, but they&#x27;re trying to figure out how to scale a business long term and that often means leaving behind free users. Don&#x27;t be surprised if hoppscotch does the same.

One time I downloaded hopscotch, and it was sending network requests to download an asset (css file) on every keystroke. I&#x27;ll never use it again. Ever.

Postman has become a bloated, enterprisey mess.<p>I want something much simpler, so I use VS code with a &quot;REST Client&quot; plugin: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;marketplace.visualstudio.com&#x2F;items?itemName=humao.rest-client" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;marketplace.visualstudio.com&#x2F;items?itemName=humao.re...</a><p>Fundamentally, IMHO, a very complex and full-featured manual testing tool is a liability, as it will lead you away from test automation.

Previously called Postwoman, renamed[0] for the following reasons:<p>&gt; 1. Similarity in name with &quot;Postman&quot; may introduce trademark violations in future.<p>&gt; 2. We don&#x27;t want to hurt any other project&#x27;s goodwill.<p>&gt; 3. Rather than being an &quot;alternative to Postman&quot;, we focus to become the best available testing suite in web.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dev.to&#x2F;liyasthomas&#x2F;postwoman-is-changing-name-igp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dev.to&#x2F;liyasthomas&#x2F;postwoman-is-changing-name-igp</a>

While many know the HTTPie CLI product, they also have a desktop and web product now<p>Check out;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;httpie.io&#x2F;product" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;httpie.io&#x2F;product</a>

If you&#x27;re a Mac user, check out Paw (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;paw.cloud&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;paw.cloud&#x2F;</a>).

Maybe I never appreciated the power of Postman but I never understood why they thought it would be a good idea to charge <i>monthly</i> for a tool that&#x27;s just a gui on top of <i>curl</i> (or <i>Invoke-WebRequest</i> for those of a Windows persuasion).

If, like me, you have strictly no clue what this is for and still don&#x27;t after navigating both the site and the github for 10mn (Hoppscotch is a community-driven open source API development ecosystem ... ??????), here&#x27;s an insomnia vid that <i>sort of</i> starts to clear the fog:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=H_k8Z8Zq99s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=H_k8Z8Zq99s</a><p>Here&#x27;s another for Hoppscotch:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=NUz8qpP0Jv8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=NUz8qpP0Jv8</a>

I&#x27;ve personally moved to Talend. Talend is browser based and capable of using existing auth cookies. It&#x27;s a game changer if you have to work in an integrated environment where it&#x27;s not possible to run those auth services locally.<p>When I started using Talend this was not possible in Postman or others. Curious if that&#x27;s changed.

Nowadays I am quite satisfied with the RESTer firefox addon: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;frigus02&#x2F;RESTer" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;frigus02&#x2F;RESTer</a>. This does look neat but there is no explanation on how to install it locally, and telemetry is enabled by default.

I got off Postman years ago and have been using Insomnia since then: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Kong&#x2F;insomnia" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Kong&#x2F;insomnia</a>

Fun fact. Hoppscotch was also known as postwoman [1] They are really going after Postman&#x27;s business.<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pitchbook.com&#x2F;profiles&#x2F;company&#x2F;489006-55" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pitchbook.com&#x2F;profiles&#x2F;company&#x2F;489006-55</a>

Love hoppscotch! Moved to it from postman back in the postwoman days. They really cleaned up the UI recently, made saving and sharing collections super easy.<p>And there&#x27;s a chrome extension so you can proxy requests through your localhost to avoid CORS issues, etc.

Interesting that they replaced the product name &quot;Hoppscotch&quot; with &quot;Hüpfburg&quot; in German. Not sure what&#x27;s the reason, as it&#x27;s not even a correct translation. German also seems to be the only language the devs did that.

Fundamentally I&#x27;ve really given up on tools like Postman.<p>A Jupyter notebook with python and requests is a much more flexible solution which turns into your actual automated test suite much more easily.

I was just about to share [Postwoman](<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;postwoman.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;postwoman.io</a>) but it shows this:<p>Update: 16th August 2020 Postwoman is now Hoppscotch

It&#x27;s funny how the UI gets unnecessarily translated into German for me :)

i have to ask here since this is about api. i have a use case whereby i have to do some sort of &quot;one time password&quot; processing via email. the otp gets on the email. that email is forwarded to a &quot;server&quot; which regexes the body and outputs the OTP and some other fields like email address forward. at the same time, the user would be using a browser extension and once that detects the user has requested OTP, a request would go to the &quot;Server&quot; which would match the two requests and send the browser extension the necessary OTPs.<p>i know the whole privacy thing around it, this is a small project and the OTPs themselves arent tied to any banking and stuff, just office work..<p>then there is another thing about captcha proxy using those captcha services. i do not want users to directly access the captcha api key, they should use internal keys for accounting purpose.<p>i have found &quot;fusio&quot; on github but it is terrible at explaining how to proceed and the documentation isnt that great

Am I going crazy or is there no way to install this locally apart from a &quot;development&quot; setup with git clone or docker?

I often use the RESTED firefox extension, which covers like 90% of my adhoc http request needs: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;RESTEDClient&#x2F;RESTED" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;RESTEDClient&#x2F;RESTED</a> It&#x27;s pretty slim with no bells and whistles.

I interviewed Liyas recently for our podcast - their Github growth rate has been really incredible. Shameless plug!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;flagsmith.com&#x2F;podcast&#x2F;hoppscotch-liyas-thomas&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;flagsmith.com&#x2F;podcast&#x2F;hoppscotch-liyas-thomas&#x2F;</a>

Not to be confused with hopscotch the kids&#x27; programming game which is an awesome app for teaching kids coding concepts <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gethopscotch.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gethopscotch.com&#x2F;</a>

Is this the project that was previously postwoman? Which was discussed here <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21607712" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21607712</a>

I just use curl. Never understood the appeal of such tools

Does the postman collection work with this hoppscotch. If it doesn&#x27;t then it&#x27;s quite annoying that you have to retype all of those.

I only wish they can provide a self-hosting step.

I really like <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nightingale.rest&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nightingale.rest&#x2F;</a>

I was going to ask if you had tried postwoman.io, turns out, they rebranded to hoppscotch

I use httpie

For those who have no idea what Postman and Hoppscotch are even after clicking the link:<p>&gt; &quot;Hoppscotch is a ... web based API development suite. It was builtb ... with ease of use and accessibility in mind ... free-to-use ... Open Source

GitHub: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;hoppscotch&#x2F;hoppscotch" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;hoppscotch&#x2F;hoppscotch</a>

Last time I looked at Postman and Insomnia, the exported xml files were not compatible with each other. I hope we end up with data portability at some point.

It’s impressive that there’s a clear effort to make the UI usable on mobile. A very rare thing for developer tools which aren’t specifically mobile oriented.

Does it do parallel requests with custom parameters? Postman also today suffer at that point.

Doesn&#x27;t seem there is a way to generate curl statement. Pity.

Is there a way to import data from Postman?<p>Looks great BTW.

LOVE seeing websockets in there already!

I wish they would support soap.

very nice, needs some contrast

The website does does not show anything if javascript is deactivated. Could at least show SOMETHING to tell me what I&#x27;m looking at.