hoppscotch/hoppscotch

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80100 stars · 6057 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Hoppscotch is an open-source API development ecosystem for building, testing, and documenting HTTP, REST, GraphQL, and WebSocket requests. It runs on the web, desktop, and CLI, and serves as an open-source alternative to Postman and Insomnia.

Use cases

• test rest api endpoints
• send http requests and inspect responses
• debug websocket connections
• run graphql queries
• postman alternative that is open source
• test apis offline or on-prem
• organize api collections for a team

When to choose

• you need a lightweight, fast API client without a heavy desktop app
• you want an open-source or self-hosted Postman/Insomnia alternative
• you need REST, GraphQL, and WebSocket testing in one tool
• you want offline or on-prem API testing

When to avoid

• you need deep enterprise API governance or contract testing features
• you require scripted load testing or CI-native test suites rather than interactive requests
• your team is already standardized on another API platform with shared workflows

Facets

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http-client api-framework testing websocket graphql developer-tools developer-tools apis web-development testing cross-platform cli api-client postman-alternative rest pwa api-testing vue web-server desktop

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