# brookshi/Hitchhiker

a Restful Api test tool

Repository: https://github.com/brookshi/Hitchhiker
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/hitchhiker
Homepage: http://www.hitchhiker-api.com
Language: TypeScript
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: restful-api, api, nodejs, typescript, testing-tools, test-automation, test, hitchhiker, collaboration, stress-test, schedule
Last push: 2019-02-09T13:47:16+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3628, "days_push": 2762, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2210, forks 399 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:26.257339+00:00)

## What it is
Hitchhiker is a self-hosted, web-based RESTful API testing tool built with Node.js and TypeScript. It supports team collaboration, scheduled batch runs, response comparison across environments, and load/stress testing.

## Use cases
- test restful apis with a team
- schedule automated api test runs
- run load and stress tests on api endpoints
- compare api responses between staging and production
- import postman collections and run them
- self-host an api testing tool instead of using postman

## When to choose
- you need a free, self-hosted Postman alternative with collaboration
- you want built-in stress testing and response comparison
- your team needs scheduled batch API testing with data kept locally

## When to avoid
- you need active maintenance or community support - the project has not been updated since 2019
- you need API mocking or strong documentation features
- you prefer a desktop app like Postman

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: abandoned
- function: testing, e2e-testing, benchmarking, http-client, scheduling, webhook
- domain: testing, apis, developer-tools
- platform: self-hosted, cross-platform
- tags: restful-api-testing, api-collaboration, stress-test, response-comparison, postman-alternative, test-scheduling, automation, nodejs, docker, web-server

## Member repositories
- brookshi/Hitchhiker (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:26.257339+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:46:06.909041+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/brookshi/Hitchhiker (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:26.257339+00:00, sha 8dc0e183a40d)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.