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

DEV Community·Puneet Sharma·6 months 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.…

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