In this article, we’ll talk about Hurl, a Postman alternative, and explain the tool, its unique benefits, and how to use it.

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Explore Hurl, a command line alternative to Postman, that allows developers to run and test HTTP requests directly from their command line. Hurl is open source, free to use, lightweight, portable, and supports various operating systems. It offers customization options and the ability to validate API responses. A comparison between Hurl and Postman reveals differences in pricing, usage, learning curve, complexity, and data privacy. Hurl can be used in CI/CD pipelines for automated testing. The post also covers a tutorial on using Hurl to test the Rick and Morty API and the Rick and Morty website using JSONPath and XPath asserts.

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<p>I use this to run a suite of post-production end to end tests with my apis</p>


<p>A super tool I used since I heard about
Really good replacement for curl and event postman/insomnia</p>
