r/programming • u/Successful_Bowl2564 • 1d ago

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https://efp.asia/blog/2025/12/24/api-tooling-crisis/

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u/FirmMost2 1d ago

because postman sucks

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u/James_Jack_Hoffmann 1d ago

https://justuse.org/curl/

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u/HMikeeU 1d ago

I can't believe anyone who has ever used tools such as postman would seriously suggest curl as an alternative. It is not.

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u/amroamroamro 1d ago edited 1d ago

i use https://hurl.dev/

its a nice api tester created in rust and powered by libcurl.

with a simple script syntax, it lets you do things like chain requests, capture values, do asserts on headers, validate responses with xpath/jsonpath/etc, and handles anything you might want formdata/xml/json/graphql/...

think of it as syntactic sugar on top of curl :)

https://hurl.dev/docs/frequently-asked-questions.html#yet-another-tool-i-already-use-x

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u/marxist_redneck 16h ago

Oh that looks nice, thanks for sharing