Postwoman - An online, open source API request builder Alternative to Postman

PostWoman is a Web alternative to Postman - Helps you create requests faster, saving precious time on development which is also an opensource API request builder

Website

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!

Postwoman developer
-by- liyas Thomas

-How it all Started-

Story behind Postwoman: The very first task I was assigned is an API integration of an old project. That's when I came across Postman API testing. Postman has separate builds targeted to each operating systems made with Electron. I use a low-end PC and can't possibly afford to run another Electron app. From that moment onwards, I wanted to make an API testing platform which is:

- Open Sourced

- Runs online

- Have multi-platform support

- Have multi-device support

- Accessible from anywhere

That's how Postwoman was born (this is not at all an alternative to Postman - yet, it does the job very beautifully and minimally. It needs more features and love which I hope we all can give by contributions on GitHub).

When I did a background check on API request builders, Postman offered various Plans & Pricing, there were lot of other API request builders based on CURL etc. But none of them seems simple, minimal and efficient.

That's why I created my own API request builder with pure JavaScript (Later I used Vue.js and apparently migrated to Nuxt.js) + HTML + CSS

Did I mention this service is all free of charge and 100% open source? Yes, It's free and always will be.

The Postwoman API request builder helps you create your requests faster, saving you precious time on your development.

Features

- Send requests to verify your API is ready for launch

- GET, HEAD, POST, PUT, DELETE, OPTIONS, PATCH (more coming soon)

- Authentication support

- Parameters support

- Request body support

- View Response

- Progressive Web App support

- UPDATE: Added History support

- UPDATE: Migrated to Vue Nuxt

- UPDATE: Added web socket support

- UPDATE: Added raw input field for PUT and POST methods

- UPDATE: Added response status color

- UPDATE: Added theme customization with settings storage

- UPDATE: Added option to copy response to clipboard

- UPDATE: Added option to view/copy HTML preview of responses

(more coming soon)

Features planned for near future for which I need your help:

- Autocomplete

- Code highlight in response body~ UPDATE: Added code highlight on response body

- More methods

- History UPDATE: Added History support

HTTP support (currently I don't have money to buy a domain so I hosted on GitHub Pages which is served only on HTTPS - this makes impossible to make non-HTTPS requests from HTTPS hosting )
Bonus: Postwoman is in dark mode

Demo

Feel free to contribute on GitHub