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Bruno is a free and open-source API client designed for Linux, Windows, and MacOS. It prioritizes speed and seamless integration with Git. With Bruno, your collections are stored directly in a dedicated folder on your filesystem, and information about API…
Spectator is a free and open source elegant GTK-based HTTP client for API testing application for Linux. It comes with intuitive user interface and features make it an ideal tool for both composing requests and inspecting server responses. It comes…
ChatGPT-shell-cli is a free and open source shell script to use ChatGPT and DALL-E from the terminal command line application. By default this app uses the gpt-3.5-turbo model with the OpenAI API . Not only this, it supports all other…
Escambo is a free and open source API testing software for Linux. Using Escambo, you can create and test all HTTP-based APIs. It comes with Endpoint testing with GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, PATCH, query parameters and body. And also supports…
TestMace is a API Testing Development IDE for Windows, Linux and MacOS. It is available in free and Paid versions. Using this you can test your API, share your code and it comes with auto completion and syntax highlight. The basic version is completely free for commercial use also. The free version comes with tests editor and scenarios, YAML format support, JS scripts and Embedded authentication methods. You can also import requests from cURL, Postman collections and importing API from Swagger and OpenAPI.
Insomnia is a free and open source REST and GraphQL client for Windows, macOS and Linux. Using this you can create HTTP requests and get details about the response like status code, body, headers, cookies. It comes with workspaces and drag-and-drop requests support. Some of the important features are you can create reusable API keys or session IDs, global environment variables, code snippet generation, OAuth 1.0, 2.0 auth, NTLM and AWS authentication support, keyboard shortcuts, SSL client certificates, JSONPath and XPath, HTML preview and configurable proxy support. It comes in three plans Free, plus and Teams. The free plan is enough for most users. Paid plans come with extra features like E2EE team sync, Workspace collaboration, User management and Priority support.
Swell is a free and open source API development tool for Windows, macOS and Linux. Using this you can test your API endpoints that served over streaming technologies. it supports Server-Sent Events (SSE), WebSockets, HTTP2, and GraphQL. Using this you can create GraphQL queries, mutations, and subscriptions. and View request timing and save it in collections. It show all the reports in interactive chart and you can import and export it. Using this you can test up to 6 concurrent connections. It is released in MIT license.
Postman is one of the best tool for API developers to test and develop APIs. It is available for Linux, Windows and MacOS. Postman provides API development tools to its users to design and mock, debug, test, document, monitor, and publish your APIs in a single software. The free version is best for individuals & small teams members. The pro version is for teams up to 50 users and it cost $8/user/month. Enterprise is $18/user/month with some advanced features and support.
Microsoft has announced that it will move the Bing Search API to Microsoft’s Windows Azure Marketplace and going to charge for it’s search API calls.
Some Notes:
approximately $40 (USD) per month for up to 20,000 queries.
transition will begin in several weeks and will take a few months to complete.
After the transition period, Bing Search API 2.0 will no longer be available for free public use
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