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A powerful HTTP client that lives in your terminal.
Posting is an HTTP client, not unlike Postman and Insomnia. As a TUI application, it can be used over SSH and enables efficient keyboard-centric workflows. Your requests are stored locally in simple YAML files, so they're easy to read and version control.
Some notable features include:
Visit the website for more information, the roadmap, and the user guide.
Posting can be installed via uv on MacOS, Linux, and Windows.
# quickly install uv on MacOS/Linux
curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh
# install Posting (will also quickly install Python 3.13 if needed)
uv tool install --python 3.13 posting
Now you can run Posting via the command line:
posting
Homebrew and NixOS are not officially supported at the moment.
pipx
?If you'd prefer to use pipx
, that works too: pipx install posting
.
Learn more about Posting at https://posting.sh.
Posting was built with Textual.
FAQs
The modern API client that lives in your terminal.
We found that posting demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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