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Terminal API client for HTTP, GraphQL, gRPC, WebSocket and SSE. Plain .http files you can diff and version, with scripted tests, workflows, mocks, recorder, and a CLI runner for CI.

8 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 1 story, 7 comments · first 2025-10-01 · latest 2026-11-03

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  1. …likes TUIs and leans more toward using .http files, check out resterm[0]. btw - I'm the author. [0] https://github.com/unkn0wn-root/resterm
    comment by unkn0wn_root · 2026-11-03 · in Postman silently auto-installs AI plugins and attempts to share all API data
  2. …Postman, Bruno or Yaak. Supports gRPC, graphQL, websockets, SSE, local mocks, SSH/k8s etc. repo: https://github.com/unkn0wn-root/resterm
    comment by unkn0wn_root · 2026-09-14 · in Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
  3. Resterm is also another api TUI client https://github.com/unkn0wn-root/resterm but uses .rest/.http files instead.
    comment by unkn0wn_root · 2026-05-22 · in Slumber a TUI HTTP Client
  4. …to give a try yet-another-api-client tool with kind of different approach - give Resterm a try. https://github.com/unkn0wn-root/resterm
    comment by unkn0wn_root · 2026-02-01 · in Show HN: Voiden – an offline, Git-native API tool built around Markdown
  5. …includes support for WebSockets, SSE, workflows, profiling, OpenAPI, response diffs and many more. https://github.com/unkn0wn-root/resterm
    comment by unkn0wn_root · 2025-11-10 · in Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)
  6. …open source if anyone prefer terminal based app but still wants to work with .http/rest files. https://github.com/unkn0wn-root/resterm
    comment by unkn0wn_root · 2025-10-21 · in Show HN: Apicat – A Lightweight Offline Postman Alternative
  7. …adds some extra "nice-to-have" features. I’m currently working on adding OpenAPI spec importing. https://github.com/unkn0wn-root/resterm
    comment by unkn0wn_root · 2025-10-21 · in Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down
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    Show HN: Resterm – A terminal-based REST/GraphQL and gRPC client
    story by unkn0wn_root · 2025-10-01 · 1 comment