Posting
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Posting, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Posting's own pricing page, checked 11 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Posting | Free | Open-source terminal API client |
The facts
Each one read from Posting's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Automated test runs
- Nochecked 20 Sep 2026
- Environments
- Variables can be loaded from one or more .env files and substituted into outgoing requests.checked 11 Oct 2026
- External tools
- Users can open request bodies in configured external editors and view responses with external pagers, including a JSON-specific pager.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Imports and exports
- Posting supports experimental imports from curl, OpenAPI 3.x, and Postman collections, and can export requests as cURL commands.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Installation
- The guide recommends installing with uv or pipx and says Homebrew installation is unsupported.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- The maker describes Posting as an API development and testing tool with keyboard-centric workflows, including use over SSH.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Known limitation
- The FAQ says headers and query parameters must currently be deleted and recreated to edit their values.checked 11 Oct 2026
- License
- The GitHub repository lists the Apache-2.0 license.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Product
- Posting is an open-source terminal app for developing and testing APIs.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Remote use
- The maker says Posting can run locally, over SSH on remote machines and containers, and on Raspberry Pi.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Request storage
- Requests are stored in readable YAML files in local collections that can be checked into version control.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Scripting
- Python setup, pre-request, and post-response scripts can prepare or modify requests and process responses.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Security and storage
- The maker says requests are stored locally in simple YAML files.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Support
- The FAQ directs feature suggestions to GitHub Discussions and bug reports to GitHub Issues.checked 11 Oct 2026
- WebSocket support
- Nochecked 20 Sep 2026
- Workflow
- It offers keyboard-centric navigation, a command palette, request autocompletion, and customizable keybindings.checked 11 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Available platforms
- desktopchecked 20 Sep 2026
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