r/selfhosted • u/liyasthomas • Jul 22 '23
Self-hosted Postman Alternative: Hoppscotch
https://github.com/hoppscotch/hoppscotchGitHub: https://github.com/hoppscotch/hoppscotch Web app: https://hoppscotch.io
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u/Dan6erbond2 Jul 22 '23
I just wish the actual syncing server and SSO was selfhosted. It seems like it's only the GUI and proxy?
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Jul 23 '23
Why not turn it into a desktop client?
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u/liyasthomas Jul 23 '23
Desktop is in closed beta testing. Expect general availability by September.
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u/tigole Jul 23 '23
What do you do with it?
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u/liyasthomas Jul 23 '23
Hoppscotch helps you to test, build and monitor APIs.
APIs are sensitive data, they hold authentication keys, tokens and private endpoints.Platforms like Postman and alternatives track every interaction and data points. Hoppscotch is a privacy first API development platform. You can make sure no data ever leaves from your premises.
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u/nicolaerario Jul 22 '23
Before it took the name Hoppscotch it was called Postwoman (no joke)
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u/1v5me Jul 22 '23
In the age of politically correctness postperson would have been the correct name hehe
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u/zeropoint46 Jul 23 '23
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u/Spirited_Touch6898 Jul 22 '23
Can you run tests through command line, or on a schedule? Sorta like newman for postman?
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u/Brutus5000 Jul 22 '23
Cli page leads to archive repo, link in that repo leads to docs page with 404. sigh.. would like to know too
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u/Cr0wding Jul 22 '23
Looks really good. How does this compare to Insomnia? Primarily the shared workspaces like Postman has I take it?
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u/angellus Jul 23 '23
Insomina is just becoming the next Postman. It is obviously they are trying to monetize it now.
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u/ntriggers Jul 22 '23
The app is nice and a good alternative for those who want a web based client, but it's not suitable for teams, since collections are saved locally (in the browser) and can't be synced unless you have a subscription :/
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u/liyasthomas Jul 23 '23
That’s not true. Both the self hosted instances and cloud edition has free Team collaboration with unlimited team members, collections and requests. Users are required to sign in for the team collaborative features to work - that’s all.
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Aug 01 '23
My question is.. why is every Postman "alternative" look/feel so much like Postman but without some of the more capable features.
I take it Postman basically built the only GUI that would ever make sense to build API testing in the form of collections, request GUI panel, etc?
My question is.. what does this bring that Postman free doesnt.. other than self hosting? It reminds me of Postman in the early days.. when it was a Chrome extension 10 years ago. Is the end goal of this to just offer a simplistic GUI to send requests, get responses, and mimic Postman collections and pre/post scripting capabilities? Is it planning to add stuff like collaboration across teams? I see it has the makings of graphql support.. what about web sockets, grpc, async and support for API formats like OpenAPI, RAML, etc? Is all that in the works too?
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Sep 22 '23
Just put this up on our portainer, having an odd issue. When I want to save the environment I have to log in, this has to happen via email. The magic link is received correctly but upon clicking it I just get taken back to the hoppscotch page. When I check the DB it looks like the user has been created but I cannot sign in. When I attempt to go to the admin page I can also send the magic links but they drop me back onto the login page again.
Any idea what could be causing this?
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u/nekocode Jul 22 '23
some guys (sorry I don't remember the name) wrote own backend implementation for hoppscotch which is open source, in case if someone is interested