<story><title>Tell HN: Postman update removes all your stuff if you refuse to create account</title><text>I have been using postman offline without an account for a long time.  Today when I opened the program it asked me to create an account.  When I declined, it wiped all my collections and everything else.&lt;p&gt;All I have is a &amp;#x27;history&amp;#x27; to work with and try to piece back together all the variables and collections that I had setup.&lt;p&gt;I relented and created an account, but it did not recover anything.  Beware!&lt;p&gt;Update: I was able to manually import&amp;#x2F;restore using a backup I found in ~&amp;#x2F;.config&amp;#x2F;Postman but I have no trust for continued use of this tool.  Any alternatives that I can migrate to?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>pests</author><text>There are some extensions for VSCode that let you define your requests in a text file and has ways to run the file and show the data.&lt;p&gt;Here&amp;#x27;s one I just found:
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;marketplace.visualstudio.com&amp;#x2F;items?itemName=humao.rest-client&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;marketplace.visualstudio.com&amp;#x2F;items?itemName=humao.re...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Syntax looks like:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    GET https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;example.com&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;1 HTTP&amp;#x2F;1.1

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    GET https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;example.com&amp;#x2F;topics&amp;#x2F;1 HTTP&amp;#x2F;1.1

    ###

    POST https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;example.com&amp;#x2F;comments HTTP&amp;#x2F;1.1
    content-type: application&amp;#x2F;json

    {
        &amp;quot;name&amp;quot;: &amp;quot;sample&amp;quot;,
        &amp;quot;time&amp;quot;: &amp;quot;Wed, 21 Oct 2015 18:27:50 GMT&amp;quot;
    }&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>S04dKHzrKT</author><text>Jetbrains IDEs also have builtin support for HTTP files.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.jetbrains.com&amp;#x2F;idea&amp;#x2F;2023&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;intellij-idea-2023-3-eap-3&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.jetbrains.com&amp;#x2F;idea&amp;#x2F;2023&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;intellij-idea-2023-3...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.jetbrains.com&amp;#x2F;help&amp;#x2F;idea&amp;#x2F;exploring-http-syntax.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.jetbrains.com&amp;#x2F;help&amp;#x2F;idea&amp;#x2F;exploring-http-syntax.ht...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Tell HN: Postman update removes all your stuff if you refuse to create account</title><text>I have been using postman offline without an account for a long time.  Today when I opened the program it asked me to create an account.  When I declined, it wiped all my collections and everything else.&lt;p&gt;All I have is a &amp;#x27;history&amp;#x27; to work with and try to piece back together all the variables and collections that I had setup.&lt;p&gt;I relented and created an account, but it did not recover anything.  Beware!&lt;p&gt;Update: I was able to manually import&amp;#x2F;restore using a backup I found in ~&amp;#x2F;.config&amp;#x2F;Postman but I have no trust for continued use of this tool.  Any alternatives that I can migrate to?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>pests</author><text>There are some extensions for VSCode that let you define your requests in a text file and has ways to run the file and show the data.&lt;p&gt;Here&amp;#x27;s one I just found:
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;marketplace.visualstudio.com&amp;#x2F;items?itemName=humao.rest-client&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;marketplace.visualstudio.com&amp;#x2F;items?itemName=humao.re...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Syntax looks like:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    GET https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;example.com&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;1 HTTP&amp;#x2F;1.1

    ###

    GET https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;example.com&amp;#x2F;topics&amp;#x2F;1 HTTP&amp;#x2F;1.1

    ###

    POST https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;example.com&amp;#x2F;comments HTTP&amp;#x2F;1.1
    content-type: application&amp;#x2F;json

    {
        &amp;quot;name&amp;quot;: &amp;quot;sample&amp;quot;,
        &amp;quot;time&amp;quot;: &amp;quot;Wed, 21 Oct 2015 18:27:50 GMT&amp;quot;
    }&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>e-master</author><text>I use it too - it’s excellent, I’d think most developers don’t need more than this.</text></comment>