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chapar-rest / chapar

chapar

Fast, native API client for REST, gRPC, WebSocket and GraphQL. A local-first Postman alternative written in Go: no Electron, no account, no cloud.

2Distinct people
3Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
732GitHub stars
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What it is

Fast, native API client for REST, gRPC, WebSocket and GraphQL. A local-first Postman alternative written in Go: no Electron, no account, no cloud.

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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Also in these discussions

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by month3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2024-05-27 08:31:51 UTC to 2025-10-23 13:15:24 UTC.

012024-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsMay 20242024-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2024-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsJan 20252025-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsOct 2025

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May 20242024-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-06-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Jun 20242024-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20242024-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20242024-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 20242024-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-10-01 00:00:00 UTC110
Oct 20242024-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20242024-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20242024-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 20252025-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20252025-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20252025-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20252025-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20252025-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20252025-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20252025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 20252025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20252025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Show HN: Chapar – A Native API Testing Tool for Developers

Hi HN, I'm excited to share Chapar, a native API testing tool I've been building with GoLang. I created it out of frustration with other API testing tools and aimed to make something fast, minimalistic, and more flexible, especially when it comes to gRPC. Features: Supports both HTTP and gRPC protocols. Workspaces to organize your API endpoints. Environments for storing variables and configurations for different API setups. Send requests using GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, PATCH, HEAD, OPTIONS, CONNECT methods. Flexible request body types like Form, Raw, Binary, and content types such as JSON, XML, Text, HTML. Different authentication methods like Basic, Bearer, API Key, or No Auth. Support for gRPC reflection, proto files, and loading sample request structures. Chaining requests with Pre/Post request options for more complex testing workflows.
Read the rest
Dark mode. All data is stored locally, ensuring privacy—nothing gets sent to any server. Import Postman collections. Cross-platform and lightweight, without any JS, ensuring it's fast and easy to run. Upcoming Features: Support for WebSocket and GraphQL. Python as a scripting language for pre/post requests. Tunneling to servers and Kubernetes clusters as pre-request actions. You can try it out by downloading the binary from the [GitHub release page](https://github.com/chapar-rest/chapar/releases) or building it yourself. Since it's written in GoLang and has no JavaScript dependencies, it's lightweight and fast to start and use. I'm still in the early stages and there's a lot of room to grow, so I'd love feedback and suggestions. Feel free to give it a try and let me know your thoughts!
4 points · Open discussion
You can write anything with it. V0.6 made your issues much less tricky. Also there is a Material Design theme. And also light and dark. Here is an excellent example of a gioui app that has light / dark with a custom theme. https://github.com/chapar-rest/chapar If you’re on MAC or Windows it’s just “ go run .”. If you wanted text keening or text sweeping around an arc or RTL / LRT it can do it thanks to github.com/go-text/typesetting Complex widgets for Calendar spinners or diagrams are out there on GitHub. An effort to bring these together is lacking, and I reckon that if all these things weee brought together it would definitely encourage more developers to dive in.
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