GitHub - ArchGPT/insomnium: Insomnium is a fast local API testing tool that is privacy-focused and 100% local. For testing GraphQL, REST, WebSockets and gRPC. This is a fork of Kong/insomnia
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Insomnia, an API development/debugging/testing tool, has been thoroughly enshittified. It now requires a cloud account to use, even though most of the use is just sending requests from your local machine (to servers often running on localhost too).

Luckily it was OSS so we have a new fork without the cloud “features”: Insomnium

  • @[email protected]
    33•1 year ago

    Nice! Insomnia was getting shittier in every update. Both insomnium and bruno looks good. Thanks 🙏

    • @[email protected]
      13•1 year ago

      Glad I’m not the only one who noticed this. I switched from Postman because all I wanted, damnit, was to paste a cURL command as a template and go from there.

      I know this isn’t a rare request, because back when I started, it was one of three advertised features, and there were official Insomnia video guides on it.

      For years, every goddamn update made it harder and harder. It’s now completely unintuitive to do, if you don’t know how it’s done.

    • @Xanvial
      1•1 year ago

      Bruno doesn’t support grpc, not yet anyway, I think it’s in the roadmap

    • @[email protected]OP
      16•1 year ago

      Valid criticism. I would be down for e.g a QT based alternative, but I’m not aware of any :/

    • @Xanvial
      2•1 year ago

      I mostly use it for grpc and gql testing

      but mostly it’s easier to change address based on environment (local, staging, production) without editing each requests

  • @[email protected]
    12•1 year ago

    What’s with the enshittification of all those API testing tools? Can’t we just have a nice GUI for cURL that doesn’t feel the need to reinvent the wheel and make money?

  • @[email protected]
    12•1 year ago

    Great to hear, i didn’t know Insomnia also went the way of forcing cloud integration (which is also a huge security issues with the usage of credentials etc.) along with Postman. Our company actually suggested Insomnia as an alternative to Postman upon banning the latter, but they might revise that recommendation to Insomnium now.

    Insomnium is also the name of a great melodic death metal band by the way: https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Insomnium/2332

  • @TCB13English
    7•1 year ago

    First, thank you for the great fork, its always good to see true open-source forks of things. But…

    I’m confused. I’ve been using Insomnia for ages everyday and I’m on the latest version is there’s no login:

    Only those buttons there, but I haven’t seen any popup or attempt to make me login. Can anyone elaborate on this?

      • @TCB13English
        9•1 year ago

        Oh yeah, I just upgraded to Insomnium. Just a PSA: if you’re on Insomnia export your data BEFORE installing Insomnium as it will obliterate your Insomnia installation and you’re going to lose your collections if you haven’t exported it before.