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Best Alternative to Postman? (self.programming)

submitted 3 weeks ago by joshuamiller to c/programming

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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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[–] expr 29 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (14 children)

Curl. Everything you described is not hard to do via scripts. I use it every day for all of my API testing needs. You're also not limited to the features Postman provides.

[–] Strykker 9 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

This is like telling someone who needs a new table saw that they can use a handsaw.

Like sure it works great, but it's going to be a long process getting things done compared to something like postman.

[–] expr 2 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

It does not take long to use curl, not sure what you're talking about. There's not particularly special about what Postman does.

[+] brettvitaz 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

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[–] msage 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Like what?

I make backends, very complex, yet curl does it all, headers, files, any data, whatever.

Need to test an API? Swagger will help everyone.

You need reproducible tests? Write feature tests.

Need to do many requests to achieve a business goal? Put it into a script. Shell is sufficient for basic needs, use anything that can be interpreted for anything more complex. Though at that point you should have an app to handle distributed states, which is never a fun time.

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