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posting: A powerful HTTP client that lives in your terminal.

posting: A powerful HTTP client that lives in your terminal.

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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:

  • "jump mode" navigation
  • environments/variables
  • autocompletion
  • syntax highlighting using tree-sitter
  • Vim keys
  • customizable keybindings
  • user-defined themes
  • run Python code before and after requests
  • extensive configuration
  • open in $EDITOR/$PAGER
  • import curl commands by pasting them into the URL bar
  • export requests as cURL commands
  • import from Postman and OpenAPI specs
  • a command palette for quickly accessing functionality

Visit the website for more information, the roadmap, and the user guide.

Installation

Posting can be installed via uv on MacOS, Linux, and Windows.

sh
1# quickly install uv on MacOS/Linux
2curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh

sh
1# install Posting (will also quickly install Python 3.13 if needed)
2uv tool install --python 3.13 posting

Now you can run Posting via the command line:

sh
1posting

Homebrew and NixOS are not officially supported at the moment.

Prefer pipx?

If you'd prefer to use pipx, that works too: pipx install posting.

Learn More

Learn more about Posting at https://posting.sh.

Posting was built with Textual.