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- programming@beehaw.org
insomnia just enshittified itself and requires cloud login like postman, and force upgrades you from the old version even if you disable updates. this blocked me at work today.
this client looks great, wanted to boost it here in case anyone else got screwed by Insomnia this morning.
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Do companies know that it’s just a fucking HTTP client? You compete with curl smh
Well to be fair the value postman & co provide is more in storing multiple requests and parameter sets in a somewhat orderly fashion. But yeah … that’s not something I’d open my wallet for either.
Does curl have an easy save feature and folder structure, so you can repeatedly call and tweak http requests during production? Curl is super easy for singular calls, not for large projects.
Yes, it’s called a text file. If you put .sh at the end of the file name, you can even run it directly from the command line.
You can even copy full curl commands from browsers in the network tab so you can reproduce the exact request.
It’s pretty cumbersome if you have to debug APIs, let’s be honest here
Ansible?
Oh eww I haven’t booted insomnia in a bit, that’s irritating. From a quick glance this looks solid, going to give it a try.
Ditto. Now I can take the reins and replace it now instead of when I need it.
Such a shame Insomnia went down this route.
Hope I can export my data into Bruno HTTP, although really no big deal if I can’t tbh - will just build up those requests again.
Why does it feel like API testing and documentation apps are low hanging fruit for enshittification 😭
bc why just have HTTP requests and plain text when you can c l o u d S a a S
Doesn’t support OpenAPI… sigh.
might be a cool thing to try and contribute
out of curiosity, what does that mean precisely? being able to import/export an OpenAPI spec? (not super familiar with OpenAPI, I know you can get an OpenAPI collection in a json file)
Import from OpenAPI, yes. Super useful if you use Swagger and it starts lagging :)
Was shocked to find you can’t even save postman requests now without logging in
cory doctorow is the prophet of our times
Glad I saw this since I just redownloaded Insomnia yesterday and thought “oh”.
By the way, it’s not required to log in. There’s a button below the login form that lets you use it without signing up.
yeah but it removes access to all but one collection - you can’t organize things into separate collections without a login anymore. plus if you have existing collections, it’ll block access to it unless you downgrade (which seems to forcibly update even if you turn updates off)
Oh sweet. I had just found APIDog the other day which seemed better than Postman. Will check this out too!
I know this isn’t going to work for everyone but thunder client for vscode and the integrated rest client in intellij work decently. I will have to take a look at this client though since I do use insomnia for some work specific stuff
You still need a subscription if you want to save your collections in git.
