I created Postwoman 👽 - An online, open source API request builder

Postwoman 👽 - API request builder

Feel free to contribute on GitHub 💚

In case you missed! Story this far: I joined Zartek, which is a start-up based in Kochi, Kerala where I work as a full-stack developer.

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 💚
• 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 💖

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.

Features 🔥

• 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)

• 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 🚀

Feel free to contribute on GitHub 💚

{% github liyasthomas/postwoman %}

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UPDATE: Thanks for all of your support and love. My fellow kind hearted dev friends registered and hosted Postwoman directly from GitHub pages to these domain:

• postwoman.io