A powerful HTTP client that lives in your terminal.
Posting is an HTTP client, not unlike Postman and Insomnia. As a TUI application, it can be used over SSH and enables efficient keyboard-centric workflows. Your requests are stored locally in simple YAML files, so they're easy to read and version control.
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Some notable features include:
- request tabs, so you can work on several requests at once
- "jump mode" navigation
- layered environments and variables, with a variables screen and autocompletion
- header autocompletion and collection search
- syntax highlighting
- response search, a collapsible JSON tree, and JSONPath filtering
- HTTP, GraphQL, and gRPC, including streaming
- server-sent events (SSE), with a live event log and JSON payload inspection
- request timing, and a persistent history of responses
- customizable keybindings and extensive configuration
- 37 built-in themes, plus user-defined themes
- open in $EDITOR/$PAGER
- import curl commands by pasting them into the URL bar, and export requests as curl commands
- import from OpenAPI, Postman and Bruno
- a command palette for quickly accessing functionality
posting remote, so coding agents like Claude Code and Codex can send requests through the Posting you have open while you watch
Press a shortcut, type a label, and jump straight to any part of the interface.
Click, scroll, select text, and drag to resize panels.
Search response text, explore JSON as a collapsible tree, and filter it with JSONPath.
Send GraphQL queries and work with gRPC services, including interactive streaming.
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Posting 3 is in beta. It's a single binary written in Go. Install it with Homebrew:
brew install darrenburns/homebrew/posting@beta
Or download an archive for macOS, Linux or Windows from the releases page. Or, with Go 1.25.5 or newer installed, run:
go install github.com/darrenburns/posting/v3/cmd/posting@latest
Now you can run Posting via the command line:
posting
Coming from Posting 2? Posting 3 reads the same collections, configuration and .env files.
See Coming from Posting 2 for what's changed.
Contributions are welcome! See CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines. To build Posting 3 from a clone of this repository, run go build ./cmd/posting, and run the tests with go test ./....
Try gRPC locally with the example server and collection, including an interactive bidirectional streaming walkthrough.
Posting 3 is built with Terma. Posting 2 was built with Textual.