Noodle – terminal-based REST client

Noodle is a terminal-based REST client designed for testing and working with HTTP APIs. Its keyboard-focused text interface can be used locally or over SSH.

Requests are stored as readable YAML files, making collections easy to edit, share, and manage with version control. Noodle supports reusable environments, inherited authentication and headers, response histories, multiple layouts, and import from OpenAPI and Postman.

The application also provides command-line automation for creating, inspecting, validating, and running collections and individual requests.

This is free and open source software.

Key Features

• Keyboard-focused terminal user interface.
• Stores each request in a readable YAML file.
• Organises requests into folders.
• Supports inherited headers and authentication settings.
• Provides environments with variable substitution.
• Includes a built-in environment editor.
• Allows inline editing of request fields.
• Supports bearer, basic and API key authentication.
• Handles JSON, form data, multipart and binary request bodies.
• Maintains a response history for each request.
• Offers stacked and side-by-side layouts.
• Includes more than 30 themes.
• Provides customisable keyboard bindings.
• Imports OpenAPI 3.0 specifications and Postman collections.
• Copies response bodies to the clipboard.
• Creates, inspects, audits and runs collections from the command line.
• Produces structured JSON output for automation and agent workflows.
• Runs locally or over SSH.

Website: github.com/wilfredinni/noodle
Support:
Developer: Carlos
License: Apache License 2.0

Noodle is written in TypeScript. Learn TypeScript with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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