When I wrote this, only God and I understood what I was doing. Now, only God knows.

Postwoman.io

API request builder - Helps you create your requests faster, saving you precious time on your development - Subscribe for updates

_{Built with ❤︎ by
liyasthomas and
contributors}

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Features ✨

❤️ Lightweight: Crafted with minimalistic UI design. Simple design is the best design.

Faster, lighter, cleaner, minimal & responsive

⚡️ Fast: Send requests and get/copy responses in real-time! Fast software is the best software.

Methods:

GET - Retrieve information about the REST API resource
HEAD - Asks for a response identical to that of a GET request, but without the response body.
POST - Create a REST API resource
PUT - Update a REST API resource
DELETE - Delete a REST API resource or related component
OPTIONS - Describe the communication options for the target resource
PATCH - Applies partial modifications to a REST API resource

History entries are synced with local session storage

🌈 Make it yours: Customizable combinations for background, foreground and accent colors: because customization === freedom. Customize now ✨.

Customizations:

Choose theme: Kinda Dark (default), Clearly White, Just Black and System theme
Choose accent color: Green (default), Yellow, Pink, Red, Purple, Orange, Cyan and Blue
Toggle multi-colored frames

Customized themes are also synced with local session storage

🔥 PWA: Install as a PWA on your device.

Features:

Instant loading with Service Workers
Offline support
Low RAM/memory and CPU usage
Add to Home Screen (button in footer)
Desktop PWA support (button in footer)
Full features

🚀 Request: Retrieve data from a URL without having to do a full page refresh.

Choose method
Enter URL
Enter Path

Features:

Copy/share public "Share URL"
Generate request code for JavaScript XHR, Fetch and cURL
Copy generated request code to clipboard
Import cURL
Label requests

🔌 Web Socket: Establish full-duplex communication channels over a single TCP connection.

Send and receive data

🔐 Authentication: Allows to identity the end user.

Types:

None
Basic authentication using username and password
Token based authentication

📢 Headers: Describes the format the body of your request is being sent as.

Add or remove Header list

📫 Parameters: Use request parameters to set varying parts in simulated requests.

📃 Request Body: Used to send and receive data via the REST API.

Options:

Set Content Type
Add or remove Parameter list
Toggle between key-value and RAW input Parameter list

👋 Responses: Contains the status line, headers and the message/response body.

Copy response to clipboard
View preview for HTML responses

HTML responses have "Preview HTML" feature

⏰ History: Request entries are synced with local session storage to reuse with a single click.

Fields

Label
Timestamp
Method
Status code
URL
Path

History entries can be sorted by any fields

Histories can deleted one-by-one or all together

Demo 🚀

https://postwoman.io

Usage 💡

Specify your request method
Type in your API URL
Add API path
Send request
Get response!

You're done!

Built with 🔧

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!

Developing 👷

Clone this repo with git.
Install dependencies by running npm install within the directory that you cloned (probably postwoman).
Start the development server with npm run dev.
Open development site by going to http://localhost:3000 in your browser.

Or, with docker-compose:

Clone this repo with git.
Run docker-compose up
Open development site by going to http://localhost:3000 in your browser.

Docker 🐳

#pull
docker pull liyasthomas/postwoman

#run
docker run -p 3000:3000 liyasthomas/postwoman:latest

#build
docker build -t postwoman:latest

Releasing 🏷️

Clone this repo with git.
Install dependencies by running npm install within the directory that you cloned (probably postwoman).
Build the release files with npm run build.
Find the built project in ./dist.

Contributing 🍰

Please read CONTRIBUTING for details on our CODE OF CONDUCT, and the process for submitting pull requests to us.

Continuous Integration 💚

We use Travis CI for continuous integration. Check out our Travis CI Status.

Versioning 🔖

This project is developed by Liyas Thomas using the Semantic Versioning specification. For the versions available, see the releases on this repository.

Change log 📝

See the CHANGELOG file for details.

Authors 🔮

Lead Developers

Liyas Thomas - Author

Testing and Debugging

(contributors)

Collaborators

_{John Harker} 💻	_izerozlu 💻	_{Andrew Bastin} 💻	_{Nick Palenchar} 💻	_{Thomas Yuba} 💻	_{Nicholas La Roux} 💻	_{Jacob Anavisca} 💻
_{Nityananda Gohain} 💻