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Best Alternative to Postman? (programming.dev)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey!

I'm currently hitting the limits with Postman's free tier and need your recommendations for alternatives. My company isn't planning to upgrade to the paid version, so I'm specifically looking for:

Must-have features:

Unlimited API requests
Collection runner or similar batch testing capability
Data import from spreadsheets for test automation
The collection runner feature is crucial for my workflow: I heavily rely on being able to import Excel data to generate and map multiple API calls without manual setup.

Has anyone switched from Postman to something else that offers these capabilities? What's your experience been like?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions! 🙏

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

I’ve been working on my own version of Rest API test client, it relies on self executing TOML files, that can be save into a git repository, it currently has unlimited API requests, will be under a 0BSD license.

It currently does not do batch script or data import from spreadsheet or csv, but I can work that feature in, that should be easy to do in Python.

It currently supports arguments and pipelining http responses into a http request. I suppose I could use the pipelining system to do the data import!

It relies on adapters, those will take care of authentication like oAuth and provide the header to merge into the request.

It will be broken down into edition to keep it easy to maintain, current working on JSON edition, but will do XML edition sometime in the future. I really want to stay close to the Unix philosophy!

I did it out of frustration of Postman and other Electron based counterparts. But also I’m doing it because it fun 😁