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Features
❤️ Lightweight: Crafted with minimalistic UI design.
⚡️ Fast: Send requests and get/copy responses in real-time.
GET - Requests retrieve resource informationHEAD - Retrieve response headers identical to those of a GET request, but without the response body.POST - The server creates a new entry in a databasePUT - Updates an existing resourceDELETE - Deletes resource or related componentCONNECT - Establishes a tunnel to the server identified by the target resourceOPTIONS - Describe the communication options for the target resourceTRACE - Performs a message loop-back test along the path to the target resourcePATCH - Very similar to PUT but makes a partial update on a resource<custom> - Some APIs use custom request methods such as LIST. Type in your custom methods.
🌈 Make it yours: Customizable combinations for background, foreground and accent colors. Customize now ✨
- Choose theme: System, Light, Dark (default) and Black
- Choose accent color: Blue, Green (default), Teal, Purple, Orange, Pink, Red, and Yellow
- Toggle multi-colored headings
- Toggle auto-scroll to response
Customized themes are synced with local session storage
🔥 PWA: Install as a PWA on your device.
- Instant loading with Service Workers
- Offline support
- Low RAM/memory and CPU usage
- Add to Home Screen
- Desktop PWA
🚀 Request: Retrieve response from endpoint instantly.
- Choose
method
- Enter
URL
- Send
- Copy/share public "Share URL"
- Generate/copy request code snippets for 10+ languages and frameworks
- Import
cURL
- Label requests
🔌 WebSocket: Establish full-duplex communication channels over a single TCP connection.
📡 Server Sent Events: Receive a stream of updates from a server over a HTTP connection without resorting to polling.
🌩 Socket.IO: Send and Receive data with SocketIO server.
🦟 MQTT: Subscribe and Publish to topics of a MQTT Broker.
🔮 GraphQL: GraphQL is a query language for APIs and a runtime for fulfilling those queries with your existing data.
- Set endpoint and get schemas
- Multi-column docs
- Set custom request headers
- Query schema
- Get query response
🔐 Authentication: Allows to identify the end user.
- None
- Basic
- Bearer Token
- OAuth 2.0
- OIDC Access Token/PKCE
📢 Headers: Describes the format the body of your request is being sent as.
📫 Parameters: Use request parameters to set varying parts in simulated requests.
📃 Request Body: Used to send and receive data via the REST API.
- Set
Content Type
- Add or remove Parameter list
- Toggle between key-value and RAW input parameter list
👋 Response: Contains the status line, headers and the message/response body.
- Copy response to clipboard
- Download response as a file
- View response headers
- View raw and preview of HTML, image, JSON, XML responses
⏰ History: Request entries are synced with cloud / local session storage to restore with a single click.
📁 Collections: Keep your API requests organized with collections and folders. Reuse them with a single click.
- Unlimited collections, folders and requests
- Nested folders
- Export as / import from GitHub gist
Collections are synced with cloud / local session storage
🌐 Proxy: Enable Proxy Mode from Settings to access blocked APIs.
- Hide your IP address
- Fixes
CORS (Cross Origin Resource Sharing) issues
- Access APIs served in non-HTTPS (
http://)
- Use custom Proxy URL
Official Hoppscotch Proxy is hosted by Apollo Software - Privacy Policy
📜 Pre-Request Scripts β: Snippets of code associated with a request that are executed before the request is sent.
- Initialize environment variables
- Include timestamp in the request headers
- Send a random alphanumeric string in the URL parameters
📄 API Documentation: Create and share dynamic API documentation easily, quickly.
- Add your requests to Collections and Folders
- Export Collections and easily share your APIs with the rest of your team
- Import Collections and Generate Documentation on-the-go
⌨️ Keyboard Shortcuts: Optimized for efficiency.
Shortcuts WIki
🌎 i18n β: Experience the app in your own language.
- Scroll down to the footer
- Click "Choose Language" icon button
- Select your language from the menu
Keep in mind: Translations aren't available for all source and target language combinations
To provide a localized experience for users around the world, you can add you own translations.
All i18n contributions are welcome to i18n branch only!
📦 Add-ons: Official add-ons for hoppscotch.
-
Proxy - A simple proxy server created for Hoppscotch
-
CLI β - A CLI solution for Hoppscotch
-
Browser Extensions - Browser extensions that simplifies access to Hoppscotch
Firefox | 
Chrome
Extensions fixes CORS issues.
Add-ons are developed and maintained under Official Hoppscotch Organization.
☁️ Auth + Sync: Sign in and sync in real-time.
Sign in with
Sync
- History
- Collections
- Environments
- Notes
✅ Post-Request Tests β: Write tests associated with a request that are executed after the request response.
- Check the status code as an integer
- Filter response headers
- Parse the response data
📝 Notes : Instantly jot down notes, tasks or whatever you feel like as they come to your mind.
Notes are only available for signed-in users
🌱 Environments : Environment variables allow you to store and reuse values in your requests and scripts.
- Unlimited environments and variables
- Initialize through pre-request script
- Export as / import from GitHub gist
- By storing a value in a variable, you can reference it throughout your request section
- If you need to update the value, you only have to change it in one place
- Using variables increases your ability to work efficiently and minimizes the likelihood of error
To find out more, please check out Hoppscotch Wiki.
Demo
hoppscotch.io
Usage
- Choose
method
- Enter
URL
- Send request
- Get response
Built with
Developing
- Update
.env.example file found in repository's root directory with your own keys and rename it to .env.
Sample keys only works with the production build.
Browser based development environment
Local development environment
- Clone this repo with git.
- Install dependencies by running
npm install within the directory that you cloned (probably hoppscotch).
- Start the development server with
npm run dev.
- Open development site by going to
http://localhost:3000 in your browser.
Docker compose
- Clone this repo with git.
- Run
docker-compose up
- Open development site by going to
http://localhost:3000 in your browser.
Docker
#pull
docker pull hoppscotch/hoppscotch
#build
docker build -t hoppscotch:latest .
#run
docker run -p 3000:3000 hoppscotch:latest
#pull
docker pull liyasthomas/postwoman
#build
docker build -t postwoman:latest .
#run
docker run -p 3000:3000 postwoman:latest
Releasing
- Clone this repo with git.
- Install dependencies by running
npm install within the directory that you cloned (probably hoppscotch).
- Build the release files with
npm run generate.
- Find the built project in
./dist.
Contributing
Please contribute using GitHub Flow. Create a branch, add commits, and open a pull request.
Please read CONTRIBUTING for details on our CODE OF CONDUCT, and the process for submitting pull requests to us.
Continuous Integration
We use Travis CI for continuous integration. Check out our Travis CI Status.
Versioning
This project is developed by Liyas Thomas using the Semantic Versioning specification. For the versions available, see the releases on this repository.
Changelog
See the CHANGELOG file for details.
Authors
Lead Developers
Testing and Debugging
Collaborators
See the list of contributors who participated in this project.
Thanks
Financial Contributors
Become a financial contributor and help us sustain our community [Support].
Open Collective
Code Contributors
This project exists thanks to all the people who contribute [Contribute].
License
This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.
Acknowledgements
- Hat tip to anyone whose code was used
- Inspirations:
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