# darrenburns/posting

The modern API client that lives in your terminal.

Repository: https://github.com/darrenburns/posting
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/posting
Language: Python
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: automation, cli, developer-tools, http, python, rest, rest-api, rest-client, terminal, textual, tui, ssh
Last push: 2026-03-25T23:30:48+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 72/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 74, release rhythm 76, longevity 59
- inputs: {"age_days": 829, "days_push": 161, "days_rel": 161, "gap_med": 5, "n_releases_24m": 24}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 12322, forks 267 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:52.355978+00:00)

## What it is
Posting is a terminal-based (TUI) HTTP client for testing and working with REST APIs, similar to Postman or Insomnia but keyboard-centric. Requests are stored as simple YAML files, making them easy to version control and use over SSH.

## Use cases
- test rest apis from the terminal
- postman alternative that runs in a tui
- version control my api requests as yaml files
- use an http client over ssh
- import curl commands and openapi specs
- manage api environments and variables in the terminal

## When to choose
- you live in the terminal and want a keyboard-driven API client
- you need to run API tests over SSH on remote servers
- you want requests stored as plain YAML files for git
- you want to import from curl, Postman, or OpenAPI specs

## When to avoid
- you prefer a graphical GUI client with point-and-click workflows
- you need team-collaboration features like shared cloud workspaces
- you need GraphQL or gRPC-first tooling rather than REST

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: http-client, cli, developer-tools
- domain: developer-tools, apis, web-development
- platform: cli, cross-platform, python, windows
- tags: tui, rest-client, api-testing, textual, postman-alternative, yaml-requests, ssh-friendly, curl-import, command-line, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- darrenburns/posting (main) score 72

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:52.355978+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 2026-08-29T17:14:09.695618+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/darrenburns/posting (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:52.355978+00:00, sha 1a717130d14c)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/posting/json (fetched 2026-08-29T08:11:16.203135+00:00, sha 8f4cf93319ca)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.