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Postwoman πŸ‘½ - An online, open source API request builder Alternative to Postman

PostWoman is a Web alternative to Postman - Helps you create requests faster, saving precious time on development which is also an opensource API request builder
Postwoman
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Built with πŸ”§

- Chromium - Thanks for being so fast!

- HTML - For the web framework

- CSS - For styling components

- JavaScript - For magic!

- Vue - To add to the JavaScript magic!

- Nuxt - To add to the Vue magic!

Postwoman developer
-by- liyas Thomas

-How it all Started-

Story behind Postwoman: The very first task I was assigned is an API integration of an old project. That's when I came across Postman API testing. Postman has separate builds targeted to each operating systems made with Electron. I use a low-end PC and can't possibly afford to run another Electron app. From that moment onwards, I wanted to make an API testing platform which is:

- Open Sourced πŸ’š

- Runs online

- Have multi-platform support

- Have multi-device support

- Accessible from anywhere

That's how Postwoman was born (this is not at all an alternative to Postman - yet, it does the job very beautifully and minimally. It needs more features and love which I hope we all can give by contributions on GitHub).

When I did a background check on API request builders, Postman offered various Plans & Pricing, there were lot of other API request builders based on CURL etc. But none of them seems simple, minimal and efficient.

That's why I created my own API request builder with pure JavaScript (Later I used Vue.js and apparently migrated to Nuxt.js) + HTML + CSS πŸ’–

Did I mention this service is all free of charge and 100% open source? Yes, It's free and always will be.

The Postwoman API request builder helps you create your requests faster, saving you precious time on your development.
Postwoman

Features πŸ”₯

- Send requests to verify your API is ready for launch

- GET, HEAD, POST, PUT, DELETE, OPTIONS, PATCH (more coming soon)

- Authentication support

- Parameters support

- Request body support

- View Response

- Progressive Web App support

- UPDATE: Added History support

- UPDATE: Migrated to Vue Nuxt

- UPDATE: Added web socket support

- UPDATE: Added raw input field for PUT and POST methods

- UPDATE: Added response status color

- UPDATE: Added theme customization with settings storage

- UPDATE: Added option to copy response to clipboard

- UPDATE: Added option to view/copy HTML preview of responses

(more coming soon)

Postwoman

Features planned for near future for which I need your help:

- Autocomplete

- Code highlight in response body~ UPDATE: Added code highlight on response body

- More methods

- History UPDATE: Added History support

HTTP support (currently I don't have money to buy a domain so I hosted on GitHub Pages which is served only on HTTPS - this makes impossible to make non-HTTPS requests from HTTPS hosting 😿)
🎁 Bonus: Postwoman is in dark mode 🌚

Demo πŸš€

Feel free to contribute on GitHub πŸ’š

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Ahmed Bankole

I have heard of postwoman and used it before. I have to admit the UI is great and it loads requests faster
Kudos 😊😊

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Liyas Thomas

Thank you

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Rakesh G Sekhar

This one is super coo bro. . .awesome

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Liyas Thomas

Thank you

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Liyas Thomas

Hi @klvncruger , thanks for this post even though I'm pretty confused why there should be another post similar to the one I already wrote here on DEV. Anyways thanks for letting people know about the project.

I'm postwoman's author - feel free to ask me anything!

Original article:

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Kelvin Conrad

i didn't know if there was a similar post. Sorry for that. But i included your credits

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Liyas Thomas

okay cool πŸ‘

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pedro rivera

cant run postwoman in my firefox browser, i installed and cant see any button or url to start working, i need to run it in my browser to make requests to my dev server

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Liyas Thomas

Browser extension works as a middleware between your PC and web app. You need to visit Postwoman.io to access web app. You won't be seeing an icon of extension since it's working in background.

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pedro rivera

so i cant use postwoman in my local machine.... so bad...

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Liyas Thomas • Edited

what was the issue?

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Shubham Kamath

I really liked the theme. Sure I'm gonna try it out!

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Liyas Thomas

That sounds great - do let me know your feedbacks.

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Jon Randy πŸŽ–οΈ

Design needs a lot of work

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Kelvin Conrad • Edited

I agree with you. You can contribute on Github

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Liyas Thomas

Feel free to contribute on GitHub

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Joshua

What specific feature of autocomplete are you looking into? Interested in contributing to this one.

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Liyas Thomas

Auto-complete now completes common content-types and request headers. There's lot of places where we could add auto-complete that would make UX better. Feel free to contribute on GitHub

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pedro rivera

how can i use the firefox browser extension?, there is not instruction at all, there is no extra icon or setting to run it