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

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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?

_thinx3 anni fa

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)

saasjosh3 anni fa

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

gregjor3 anni fa

curl

_thinx3 anni fa

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

[1] https://httpie.io

saasjosh3 anni fa

How do you deal with oauth2 with curl?

gregjor3 anni fa

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

saasjosh3 anni fa

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.

gregjor3 anni fa

That depends. If you can use the command line and write a short script that’s just copy/paste from StackOverflow, curl is very simple.