Introduction
We might want to send arbitrary number of GET,POST,PUT etc. requests to test our website/APIs.
You might be using Postman, Paw or insomnia.rest. Those are cool. But, same can be achieved in a different view as well. Hint: It's super-fast, lightweight.
Yeah. This super cool stuff. You can just install and start in seconds. In case you are too curious here are few features.
Features
- Easily set request body, query params, custom headers, cookies
- Support for sessions, authentication
- Forms and file uploads, Wget-style downloads
- HTTPS, proxies, redirects, and more
- Full GraphQL support.
- Catch more of them at Requester Homepage
Installation
- Download and install Sublime Text 3.
- Install Package Control for Sublime Text.
- Open the command palette shift+cmd+p and type Package Control: Install Package.
- Search for Requester (not Http Requester) and install it.
The catch
It's not that fancy UIs. It's been with a little bit code.
Show me: The hello world
- Open Sublime Text 3. Just copy, any website link and past into a new editor tab. Here is one I copied. http://httpbin.org/get
- Look for
Requester: Run Requests
in the command paletteshift+cmd+p
and hit Enter. A response tab will appear, with a detailed view of result of the requests. - Congrats! You successfully sent a
get request
.
In case, you didn't cut with above steps. Just head on to official site (https://requester.org/) and just follow the docs. Trust me, it's really easy and beautiful.
Need syntax highlighting ?
Set Syntax: Requester
in the command palette shift+cmd+p
and hit Enter.
POST request ?
Yeah. It's also simple.
requests.post('http://httpbin.org/post')
Note: This tool is inspired by python-requests
Too much to type ? Here is a shorter form.
post('http://httpbin.org/post')
More than one ? Why not ?
Select more than one and Requester: Run Requests
(There is a shortcut, I leave it for you to grab the official docs :-) ).
post('http://httpbin.org/post')
get('http://httpbin.org/get')
JSON Formatting ?
Yes. please.
get('http://headers.jsontest.com/', fmt='indent_sort')
get('http://headers.jsontest.com/', fmt='indent')
get('http://headers.jsontest.com/', fmt='raw')
Request Body, Query Params, Custom Headers, Cookies
post('httpbin.org/post', data={'key1': 'value1', 'key2': 'value2'})
post('httpbin.org/post', json=[1, 2, 3])
post('httpbin.org/post', json={'name': 'Jimbo', 'age': 35, 'married': False, 'hobbies': ['wiki', 'pedia']})
get('httpbin.org/get', params={'key1': 'value1', 'key2': 'value2'})
get('httpbin.org/headers', headers={'key1': 'value1', 'key2': 'value2'})
get('httpbin.org/cookies', cookies={'key1': 'value1', 'key2': 'value2'})
get('httpbin.org/redirect-to?url=foo') # response tab shows redirects
Pro Tip
You can save these requests as files in *.pyr
. As Sublime Ninja, you can use Ctrl+P
for quick accessing. git
for versioning etc.
Conclusion
Requester is an easy to use Sublime Text 3 plugin.
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