What does HackerNews think of verb?

Tell HN: Postman update removes all your stuff if you refuse to create account | Oct 2023

Or org+verb https://github.com/federicotdn/verb

Beyond OpenAPI | Sep 2023

The "HTTP" format proposed in the article is the same we use with Hurl [1], an Open Source HTTP CLI based on plain text.

  POST http://httpbingo.org/anything/chat
  content-type: application/json
  
  {
      "message": "Hello!"
  }

We extend it a bit to add checks on response, and add request chaining, but it's basically HTTP 1.x as this article shows it. A lot of others tools have the same idea, with minor differences:

- Hurl (I'm one of the maintainer) https://hurl.dev

- HTTP Client https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/http-client-in-product-c...

- httpYac https://httpyac.github.io

- restclient.el https://github.com/pashky/restclient.el

- REST Client https://github.com/Huachao/vscode-restclient

- verb https://github.com/federicotdn/verb

And many more...

Worth noting, other tools have taken the YAML route (like Step CI https://stepci.com), JavaScript (k6 https://k6.io/docs/using-k6/http-requests/)... I'm biased of course, I've a tiny preference for the simple plain text format.

And of course, there are also GUI application (Postman, Insomnia, RecipeUI amon others)

[1]: https://hurl.dev

Show HN: Lama2 - Plain-Text Powered REST API Client for Teams | Jan 2023

have you checked this https://github.com/federicotdn/verb . Its emacs package and i am able to write and test api's with text files.

Hurl: Run and test HTTP requests with plain text | Nov 2022

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There's also verb [1], which extends Org mode.

[1] https://github.com/federicotdn/verb

Hurl: Run and test HTTP requests with plain text | Nov 2022

Not as usable for testing, but verb.el[1] is a great tool for doing something very similar in org-mode

[1] https://github.com/federicotdn/verb

Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman | Oct 2022

If you live in Emacs, there is the amazing verb package that does the same, it supports org-mode primarily and also integrates with org-babel nicely.

https://github.com/federicotdn/verb

Hoppscotch: Open-Source Alternative to Postman | Feb 2022

> I want something much simpler, so I use VS code with a "REST Client" plugin

I follow the same approach. Emacs, Verb[0] and org-mode. An alternative to Verb would be restclient.el[1] but I like Verb more because it works as an extension to org-mode which is great for documentation.

[0] https://github.com/federicotdn/verb [1] https://github.com/pashky/restclient.el

Postman Now Supports gRPC | Feb 2022

if you are using emacs you can also give this a shot https://github.com/federicotdn/verb

It lets you write the api, test it and generate the documentation all from the same source of truth file.

Dealing with APIs, JSON and databases in org-mode | Jan 2022

Great post, with lots of interesting things to improve my workflow! My progression has been 1) rest client 2) org-mode with blocks 3) verb-mode. However, I think most of what is mentioned can be applied equally to verb-mode, which sort of a DSL built on top of org-mode.

[1] https://github.com/federicotdn/verb

HTTP Toolkit | Dec 2021

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After having used postman for sometime, I realized it favors mouse click based workflow and is very resource heavy. I have switched to emacs verb[1] package and combined with some custom function for env (staging/local) management and org-roam for file management, it's much more comfortable to use. I don't have to learn a new set of shortcuts and can use all the other emacs features.

[1]: https://github.com/federicotdn/verb

Show HN: Prestige, a text based HTTP client, for working with HTTP APIs | Jun 2021

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Rest client is great, but a lot of the cool (emacs) kids have moved over to verb-mode [1]. To be fair, you can probably achieve something similar with org-mode and rest-client, but the verb-mode integration is very nice.

[1] https://github.com/federicotdn/verb

Paw is joining Rapid API, Paw for the Web, Windows, and Linux is available | Feb 2021

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Well, you have `M-x restclient-copy-curl-command` (`C-c C-u` by default) to share a single command.

There is also Verb mode (org-mode extension) which seems like a nice alternative to restclient.el. Learnt about via Impostman[2] which imports Postman collections to both restclient.el and verb.el

[1] https://github.com/federicotdn/verb

[2] https://github.com/flashcode/impostman/

Show HN: What did you make during lockdown? | Jun 2020

Wrote a HTTP client for Emacs based on Org mode: https://github.com/federicotdn/verb