👽 Hoppscotch
Hoppscotch is a Progressive Web App that you can use as an API request testbed. Make requests to your REST, GraphQL and other APIs easily and save them for later.
![](https://hoppscotch.io/banner.png)
If you've used Postman, you know how to use Hoppscotch (code). Hoppscotch (formerly known as PostWoman) is a very popular F/OSS alternative to Postman. It looks gorgeous:
![](https://awsmfoss.com/content/images/2023/03/hoppscotch-app.png)
Hoppscotch makes it easy to query HTTP APIs, whether via RESTful HTTP verbs (GET
, POST
, etc) or via GraphQL.
Hoppscotch can be used right from their home page – visit the main website to start using it right from the browser.
In addition to basic requests, Hoppscotch has a ton of features:
- Server Sent Events
- Websockets
- Workspaces for saving how you work
- Collections for saving and reusing requests
- MQTT
And those are just a few of the things you can do with Hoppscotch.
Hoppscotch has great documentation, with guides on how to use the RestAPI platform and GraphQL as well.
Running Hoppscotch
It's a bit hard to find in the documentation, but Hoppscotch is actually only available as:
There was some discussion on creating a cross-platform native build, but it looks like that's been abandoned.