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Paw 3 — The most advanced API tool for Mac
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@joe_blau In the preview panel at the bottom? If so that's just a personal preference (by default it's 11px Menlo font, maybe have you changed it in the app's Prefs?), so you can reset it in Paw menu > Preferences > Formatting. But you can also quickly zoom in/out by clicking on any field, and then pressing Cmd- or Cmd+ I hope it solves that issue.
What's different compare to PostMan? I don't really interesting in its pricing model, I can have all basics feature free on PostMan, but I have to pay $40+ for this, it's this sounds right to you?
@stevesun21 I haven't played with Postman in a while. Paw imho have a better UI and feels more like a native macOS app. It was more polished than Postman, the last time, I used Postman.
For me, Paw power comes from the small and hidden featured features. For example when you paste the following:
```
Header1: Value1
Header2: Value2
```
In a header field it, Paw would detect this is several headers and values and would handle it correctly.
Also I really like that I can just create a `.paw` file and send it to collage to work with.
@stevesun21 Paw is also built for teams and collaboration. You can version the various API calls and work on these things as a team, while sharing credentials securely. Very useful in complex integration testing. Generally Paw has more powerful features on saving user credentials within the app and dynamically choosing them based on the use case (i.e. dev vs qa vs prod) and tons of extensions that allow you to even write some simple JavaScript to daisy chain functions and other calls together to test things out. You will never get that from PostMan, which is also a great tool, but much more limited scope. YMMV.
@rstankov Yea, I know what you talk about. In PostMan, they call Bulk Edit and not just header, you can even do url parameters as well.
@andreioprisan In Postman, the different environment setup is come for free. And if you pay, you also can get the team features with PostMan as well. My question is, why I pay Paw, just for some features (good enough for sole developer/freelancer/early startup) I can get from PostMan for free?
@stevesun21 Depends on your productivity threshold. For me the additional features and expandability via extensions are worth a lot more than $40, given the time it saves me and how much cleaner and efficient the UI feels. For something I will be using for 50+ hours/year, It's worth <1hr worth of pay.
I feel postman is much powerful free tool. Good enough for Startups or individual developers. Why anyone is paying 50$ for this i can't understand.
@dharmendravit As others touched on in previous comments, it all comes down to work style, productivity gains, and personal preference.
I used Postman a lot before, but i'm never going back. Paw just solves lots of annoying illogical flow problems in the UI, and doesn't feel like it's blocking me from doing my work.
@dharmendravit as a web developer I hate using browsers for developer tools. I get for some people that's no a problem but for me the only free tool was like CocoaRest client which worked but was pretty basic and I find PAW a nice alternative. The UI of postman looks a bit cluttered to me when I have used it as well.
My favorite API development tool just got a major update :)
Especially Paw for Teams is quite interesting feature.
@xiao99xiao Yes, we have moved, but if you purchased from the MAS you will get a free upgrade to a full v3 license: https://paw.cloud/docs/getting-s...
@hishnash @xiao99xiao So how is that supposed to work if we can't download Paw from the app store anymore? -.-
@alexswensen @hishnash It's a free upgrade for old versions. If you don't have a Paw bought from the app store, you need to buy v3 directly on the website. Or if you have but deleted, just re-download it on the Purchased page on MAS.
@xiao99xiao @hishnash Sorry, i should have been more clear. I purchased Paw a while ago on the app store. It was just being a pain to download and install. Got it and now im up to date with Paw 3. Thanks!
Paw works great, feels great and has a consistent stream of updates. Plus it's a native app which always wins for me over web 💯👍
Paw is one of my most favourite and most used apps - I couldn't live without it! Just last Friday I used it during a showcase 👌
See also RESTed (Mac).
The pre-release / beta has been available as a free download for a year or so, the slightly earlier version can be had for $3.99
Beta: http://www.helloresolven.com/bet.... Mac App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/....
It might not be as feature-rich as Postman or Paw but it's pretty nice.
@steve1215 I'd probably look at CocoaRest client, free open source, pretty similar UI, definitely not as comprehensive as PAW or Postman though.
No built-in HAR support for import/export makes me sad :( This would allow seamlessly transferring files between Chrome/Firefox/Safari dev tools, Charles, etc...
@tuxracer We have Har import https://paw.cloud/extensions/HAR... and export will come the 2 weeks.
@andreioprisan @tuxracer We released the HAR exporter a week ago https://paw.cloud/extensions/HAR...
Paw is one of my most frequently used dev tools. I use Rested a bit for super quick simple testing, but if you are doing heavy HTTP and API work this app should be at the top of your list. The variables/environments, and code generation are TOP notch. And that new dark theme.. yum!
This looks like a great tool - as a feature idea, it would be cool if you could export to CSV and also import from CSV,
@boris_gefter Thanks for the kind words about Paw! What kind of CSV data would you like to import/export? What's your use case?
@mittsh say you pulled some data from google analytics via the api and then wanted to export it via csv. Then you manipulated the data in the csv and then wanted to push it back up into another service.
Been using Paw for years. It is an indispensable tool for API development/testing. Paw 3 is a fantastic upgrade!
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