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I Built a Free In-Browser API Tester — No Postman Install Needed

DEV Community·Puneet Sharma·about 1 month ago
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We've all been there — you just need to fire a quick API request to check a response, but your options are: Boot up Postman (and wait for that Electron app to load 🐢) Install a VS Code extension just for this Remember the exact curl syntax you always forget I got tired of it, so I built a lightweight API request tester that runs entirely in your browser. What it does API Request Generator & Tester Choose your HTTP method (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, PATCH) Set custom headers Pass a request body (JSON, form data) Inspect the response — status, headers, body Zero install. Zero sign-up. Just open and use. It's essentially a no-friction Postman alternative for when you just need to poke at an endpoint quickly. Why browser-based? The goal was to remove every possible barrier between "I need to test this" and actually testing it. No app to install, no account to create, no workspace to configure. Open the URL, test your API, move on.…

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