[HN Gopher] Insomnium - Local, privacy-focused fork of Insomnia ...
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Insomnium - Local, privacy-focused fork of Insomnia API client
Author : archibaldJ
Score : 153 points
Date : 2023-09-29 18:49 UTC (4 hours ago)
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| dang wrote:
| Recent and related:
|
| _Insomnia REST client now requires an account_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37680126 - Sept 2023 (123
| comments)
| postalrat wrote:
| My feature request: a way to generate curl commands, fetch, etc.
| Browsers can do it, why not a dedicated client for making http
| calls?
| whiskeytuesday wrote:
| Insomnia already does this, at least did as of version
| 2022.6.0. Right click on the name of the request in the sidebar
| to find "copy as curl" and "generate code", Ctrl+Shift+G also
| brings up the Generate Code interface.
|
| I'll check if the more up to date version that insomnium is
| based on has the same feature once I get it built.
| postalrat wrote:
| Thanks. I looked for that feature before in insomnia and
| didn't find it.
| blacksmith_tb wrote:
| When I went looking for alternatives to Insomnia I was
| pleasantly surprised to see that RecipeUI[1] will let paste
| in curl commands with various flags etc. and parse those to
| generate new entries, pretty slick.
|
| 1: https://github.com/RecipeUI/RecipeUI
| Volbohel wrote:
| Hi, one of the makers of RecipeUI. Happy to hear this is
| something you liked! We're still finding edge cases when it
| comes to parsing cURL commands, so if you find any that we
| missed please file an issue or send us a message (here or
| discord).
|
| Also glad to hear any other feedback you have :)
| whiskeytuesday wrote:
| Finally got a build, at least on my machine the features are
| still there except you can't right click on the list items
| any more, you have to click the little V next to the item.
| captn3m0 wrote:
| Please provide ASAR buildS.
| makestuff wrote:
| Here is the main Github issue with a lot of context:
| https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/issues/6577
|
| It was later turned into a discussion here:
| https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/discussions/6590
|
| However, the discussion was closed so newer issues have been
| created.
| kongkucs wrote:
| [flagged]
| buzer wrote:
| I saw they mentioned Git Sync as alternative. Do they do
| something to prevent that from working locally? Git itself does
| not need any remotes to be configured or you could set the
| remote to be another local git repository.
| Keyframe wrote:
| Thanks!
| user6275726E wrote:
| Hey everyone.. wish we were here discussing something more
| positive. however...
|
| I happen to know that the Kong CTO is extremely obsessed with
| GitHub stars and vanity metrics so he can impress investors (e.g.
| check out his twitter to see him bragging about star counts).
|
| The best thing you can do to get Kong's attention on how horribly
| they have handled this situation is...
|
| unstar https://github.com/kong/insomnia
|
| ...and tell everyone you know to do the same...
|
| It's so so sad that it's come to this but if you haven't seen any
| of the CTO's responses to users... you're in for a ride. See the
| thread that dang posted here. The CTO's own words make it quite
| clear that he sees the Insomnia community as pests getting in the
| way of his IPO.
|
| It should be crystal clear to everyone paying attention that the
| leadership at Kong doesn't have a whole lot of respect for their
| user's private data. I was hoping they'd take a moment to reflect
| after the extreme backlash but instead they've just been arguing
| with users nonstop while some of us are sitting here filling out
| compliance reports on the accidentally exfiltrated data.
| user6275726E wrote:
| perhaps more heartbreaking is a tweet from the original creator
| of Insomnia[1] (who sold it to Kong some years ago) which
| reminds me of the time a year ago when Insomnia forced the
| GitHub stars count to be prominently placed in the product, but
| explicitly without any way to disable it[2]. It was later
| disabled but just for paying users..
|
| You can see the CTO arguing with people in that thread about
| it.
|
| 1: https://twitter.com/GregorySchier/status/1707472402454835593
| 2:
| https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/issues/5056#issuecomment-12...
| [deleted]
| user3939382 wrote:
| Marco should get a job with Unity or Bud Light.
|
| I highly recommend the HTTP client in the JetBrains IDEs. It's
| come a long way fast, is under very active development, and a
| breath of fresh air. Even though it's a feature it beats the
| standalone products IMHO.
| Justsignedup wrote:
| didn't even know that existed. Thanks, I'll check it out!!!
| hinkley wrote:
| There's a database client lurking in there too. I nearly
| always forget it.
| whiskeytuesday wrote:
| I guess I haven't updated insomnia in a while or something as I
| was blissfully unaware that I needed a replacement until just
| now. Looks good!
| laurensr wrote:
| What is it with generic HTTP clients and their data/account
| hunger? And why has no fully selfhosted team collaboration tool
| stood up?
| hyperhopper wrote:
| Data/account hunger is how you get money.
| syspec wrote:
| Id say marketing. What this episode has shown me, is that there
| are actually loads such clients. Many of them look kind of
| similar (in a good way), and provide much of the same
| functionality.
| diarrhea wrote:
| I'm also a bit baffled. What's so hard about curl with a UI?
| Why are there multiple entire companies in this space? I mean,
| competition is great and all, but these two at least look in a
| race to the bottom.
| 12345hn6789 wrote:
| Thanks for this. Luckily I found out insomnia was (fully)
| enshittified through hacker news and not the forced update. I'll
| backup my files and move over to this fork soon.
| typosaur wrote:
| Do you have a plan to maintain it long-term or is it just a fork
| in sake of a fork?
|
| Other than that, for UI/manual testing I'd recommend Restfox or
| Bruno and ezy for gRPC. Hurl and Step CI for automated testing
|
| Restfox: https://github.com/flawiddsouza/Restfox
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| Bruno: https://github.com/usebruno/bruno
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| ezy: https://github.com/getezy/ezy
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| Step CI: https://github.com/stepci/stepci
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| Hurl: https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource/hurl
|
| Upd: added links
| imachine1980_ wrote:
| for vscode i use thunder client, it works and is there any
| better option for vscode.
| ushakov wrote:
| thunder isn't open-source though?
|
| you should try REST Client: https://marketplace.visualstudio.
| com/items?itemName=humao.re...
| graphememes wrote:
| https://hoppscotch.io/ is another one
| ushakov wrote:
| It's VC-funded...
| SparkyMcUnicorn wrote:
| I think their model is acceptable and sustainable. It's MIT
| licensed, and they make money on the self-hosted enterprise
| edition that gives you SSO, permissions, audits, etc.
|
| Recently switched to it after going through most of the
| alternatives, because it has a clean UX, works on every OS
| without install, and has all of the features I need.
| benatkin wrote:
| Perhaps it will be a repeat of this.
| lkjfdsafdsaf wrote:
| [flagged]
| patrikcsak wrote:
| insomnia was my favorite http client until it started deleting
| entire projects: https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/issues/5167
| seanw444 wrote:
| For Emacs users, I recommend:
| https://github.com/pashky/restclient.el
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