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iByteABit lemmy.ml iByteABit@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2025-11-08
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damnthefilibuster lemmy.world damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-05
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I wanna say insomnia but I don’t know if it’s FOSS. It’s made by a company named Kong as a side project.

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slazer2au lemmy.world slazer2au@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-30
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Curl.

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iByteABit lemmy.ml iByteABit@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2025-11-08
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I wanna say insomnia but I don’t know if it’s FOSS. It’s made by a company named Kong as a side project.

It's foss but got purchased by Kong and started becoming a bit too much of a product for my liking, it has a fork called insomnium that keeps development where it used to be before but it's no longer maintained sadly

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DevOops piefed.social DevOops@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-06-07
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Bruno is pretty good

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damnthefilibuster lemmy.world damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-05
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It's foss but got purchased by Kong and started becoming a bit too much of a product for my liking, it has a fork called insomnium that keeps development where it used to be before but it's no longer maintained sadly

Still better than Postman.

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user28282912 piefed.social user28282912@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-12-17
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import requests

theUrl = r'https://threatbutt.com/map/'

response = requests.get(theUrl)

print(response.text)

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iByteABit lemmy.ml iByteABit@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2025-11-08
#8 · Quote Reply

import requests theUrl = r'https://threatbutt.com/map/' response = requests.get(theUrl) print(response.text)

Might as well use curl at that point

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tiny midwest.social tiny@midwest.social
Joined: 2023-06-08
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https://www.thunderclient.com/
Thunderclient is great if you use vscode

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emb lemmy.world emb@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-12
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I wanna say insomnia but I don’t know if it’s FOSS. It’s made by a company named Kong as a side project.

Think I used this for a little while. It was pretty much a slightly better Postman, back when Postman itself was less annoying.

Frustratingly, at some point I opened Insomnia and it randomly lost all my requests/history. That soured me on it. Then when I tried it again a couple years later, it had that bad 'freemium' feel, even if it is still FOSS.

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Captain Beyond linkage.ds8.zone beyond@linkage.ds8.zone
Joined: 2021-03-27
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https://www.thunderclient.com/ Thunderclient is great if you use vscode

This is proprietary

https://github.com/thunderclient/thunder-client-support/blob/main/LICENSE.txt

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slacktoid lemmy.ml slacktoid@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2021-08-18
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Curl.

Total feelings of superiority: immeasurable.

Facts!

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mbp lemmy.sdf.org mbp@lemmy.sdf.org
Joined: 2023-06-29
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Hopscotch is nice. I'd like that feeling of superiority from using solely curl, tho

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Psyhackological lemmy.ml Psyhackological@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2024-02-11
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https://lib.rs/crates/xh

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