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Just released Fast API Tester Chrome extension

DEV Community·Ievgenii Podovinnikov·6 months ago
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#api#showdev#testing#tooling#tester
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Lightweight API tester with history. Does the basics: GET/POST/PUT/DELETE/PATCH, headers, params, JSON body. Remembers last 3 requests.

Pro features coming soon. I also need this to test my custom paywall service (one of the next 2 posts will revive more about it)

One annoying thing: needed permission because you can't predict which API endpoints people will call so this is very basic thing for such a thing as API test tool. That automatically flags the extension for manual review — which takes weeks instead of minutes/hours for auto-review.

I am actually understand that and am okay with that.

But what google does wrong - they can just hold you extension in limbo in "pending review" state for weeks and than you find some minor mistake in permissions (it still needed all_urls tho) and decide to take a risk and re-submit losing your queue in manual review and volia!…

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