Hands-On RESTful Python Web Services - Second Edition

Working with GUI tools – Postman and others

So far, we have been working with two terminal-based, or command-line, tools to compose and send HTTP requests to our Flask development server: cURL and HTTPie. Now, we will work with a GUI (short for Graphical User Interface) tool.

Postman is a very popular API testing suite GUI tool that allows us to easily compose and send HTTP requests, among other features. Postman is available as a Chrome App and as a Macintosh App. We can execute it in Windows, Linux, and macOS as a native app. You can download the versions of the Postman app at https://www.getpostman.com/apps.

You can download and install Postman for free to compose and send HTTP requests to our RESTful APIs. You just need to sign up to ...