unkn0wn-root/resterm

Health v2 · maintenance only

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1871 stars · 50 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Resterm is a terminal-native API client and workbench for REST, GraphQL, gRPC, WebSocket and SSE, built around plain .http/.rest files that can be diffed and versioned. It combines an interactive TUI with declarative workflows, assertions, mock servers, tracing, profiling, OpenAPI import, SSH tunnels, Kubernetes port-forwards and a headless CLI runner.

Use cases

• test rest apis from the terminal
• run http request files in ci
• debug grpc and graphql endpoints
• replace postman with a terminal api client
• mock api responses locally
• profile and trace api requests
• run multi-step api workflows with assertions
• tunnel api requests through ssh or kubernetes port-forward

When to choose

• you prefer api-as-code with .http files you can diff and version
• you need a terminal/tui workflow instead of a gui like Postman
• you need one tool covering HTTP, GraphQL, gRPC, WebSocket and SSE
• you want headless automation, mock servers, tracing and profiling in a single client

When to avoid

• you want a GUI collection-based client like Postman or Insomnia
• you need cloud sync, team workspaces or shared accounts
• you are not comfortable working in a terminal

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

http-client api-framework testing mock-api cli developer-tools developer-tools apis testing web-development cli cross-platform windows api-client tui http-files grpc graphql websocket sse openapi-import ssh-tunnel kubernetes-port-forward api-as-code postman-alternative terminal-ui command-line macos linux

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