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HTTP requests in plain text.

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Console’s review

· Reviewed by David Mytton

What we like

Easily define & execute HTTP requests in plain text. Chain requests, evaluate queries, define assertions. Built-in manipulation tools for HTML, JSON, REST, SOAP, GraphQL. Export reports for response time monitoring. Supports request templates & variable injection. Open source.

Tradeoffs

Focused on being a CLI tool so it has no GUI - great for its purpose, but if you want a GUI then other tools are more appropriate.

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