- Description
- How to use
- Features
- Documentation
- Technical precisions
- Contributors
- Star history
- License
ATAC is Arguably a Terminal API Client. It is based on well-known clients such as Postman, Insomnia, or even Bruno, but inside your terminal without any specific graphical environment needed.
The philosophy of ATAC is to be free, account-less, and offline for now and forever.
Important
First, make sure your rust version is at least 1.76
Simply use:
cargo install atac
Then:
atac -h
Enjoy!
You can use your favorite AUR helper to install. For example,
paru -S atac
Enjoy!
Simply use:
brew tap julien-cpsn/atac
brew install atac
Then:
atac -h
Enjoy!
The binaries from the latest release can be found here
Important
Remember to run it from a terminal. For example, you can add the binary into your PATH. You won't be able to run it like other graphical applications since it needs CLI arguments.
For more:
atac -h
Important
First, make sure your rust version is at least 1.76
Simply clone the repository and use:
cargo run -- -h
Build the latest release
cargo build --release
Features | ATAC | Postman | Insomnia |
---|---|---|---|
Manage collections & requests | โ | โ | โ |
HTTP Client | โ | โ | โ |
Methods | โ | โ | โ |
- GET | โ | โ | โ |
- POST | โ | โ | โ |
- PUT | โ | โ | โ |
- PATCH | โ | โ | โ |
- DELETE | โ | โ | โ |
- HEAD | โ | โ | โ |
- OPTIONS | โ | โ | โ |
Authentication | Partial | โ | โ |
- Basic auth | โ | โ | โ |
- Bearer token | โ | โ | โ |
- JWT, Digest, OAuth1-2, AWS | โ ๐ | โ | โ |
Headers | โ | โ | โ |
Body | โ | โ | โ |
- Multipart form | โ | โ | โ |
- URL Encoded form | โ | โ | โ |
- File | โ | โ | โ |
- Plain text | โ | โ | โ |
- JSON, XML, HTML | โ | โ | โ |
Full response | โ | โ | โ |
- Status code | โ | โ | โ |
- Cookies | โ | โ | โ |
- Headers | โ | โ | โ |
- Duration | โ | โ | โ |
Scripting | โ ๐ | Partial | โ |
- Pre-request script | โ ๐ | โ | โ |
- Post-request script | โ ๐ | โ | โ |
Asynchronous requests | โ | โ | โ |
Per-request settings | โ | โ | โ |
- Use proxy | โ | โ | โ |
- Allow redirects | โ | โ | โ |
- Store cookies | โ | โ | โ |
WebSocket Client | โ ๐ | โ | โ |
GraphQL | โ (not planned) | โ | โ |
Free | โ | Depends | Depends |
Lightweight, fast and efficient | โ | โ | โ |
Data storage | Your own committable, readable and versioned files | Tied to your account | Tied to your account |
Offline | โ | โ | โ |
Real-time collaboration | โ (not planned) | โ | โ |
Environment files and variables | โ (committable, readable and versioned) | โ | โ |
View options | โ | โ | โ |
Global configuration file | โ | โ | โ |
- HTTP/HTTPS Proxy | โ | โ | โ |
- Disable CORS | โ | โ | โ |
- Toggle syntax highlighting | โ | โ | โ |
Postman v2.1.0 import | โ | โ | โ |
OpenAPI import | โ ๐ | โ | โ |
-
To add
- Create a repo wiki
- Document whole code
-
To improve
- Pretty print output
- Sign binary
- Add file to Postman import
-
To fix
- Query parameters bug
-
To add
- Command line usage (send requests, add new requests)
- keymap configuration (via a config file)
- Request body syntax highlighting
- Export a request to other code formats (curl, PHP, JS, Rust, ...)
- Pre and post-request script (javascript v8 engine)
-
To improve
- Editing cookies
- Insomnia import
- Auto-completion on env file variables
- Manage multipart Content-type header (auto-generated for now)
- Base URL property on collections
Note
Documentation will soon be published in the wiki section
- Console Host
- Windows 11 (Pro)
- WSL2 Debian
- Windows 10 (Pro)
- Windows 8.1 (N)
- Ubuntu Desktop Terminal
- Ubuntu 17.10
- Pop!_OS 20.04
- (Arch, Manjaro) KDE Konsole
- (Arch, NixOS) Kitty
- Linux Mint
- (OpenSuse) Alacritty
- (Chrome OS) Crostini
(List from here)
Library | Version | Reason |
---|---|---|
reqwest & reqwest cookie store | 0.11.27 & 0.6.0 | Send requests |
ratatui | 0.26.1 | Terminal UI framework |
crossterm | 0.27.0 | Terminal Backend |
tui-big-text | 0.4.2 | Display big texts. Only used for displaying ATAC in the homepage. |
tui-tree-widget | 0.19.0 | Display tree-like lists. Used for displaying the collections. |
tui-textarea | 0.5.0 | Text area that handle a lot of features. Used for editing request body. |
throbber-widgets-tui | 0.4.1 | Display loading UI elements. Used when request is pending. |
syntect | 5.2.0 | Syntax highlighting |
serde & serde_json | 1.0.197 & 1.0.144 | Serialize & Deserialize application data into JSON files |
toml | 0.8.11 | Serialize & Deserialize application config files |
envfile | 0.2.1 | Deserialize application environment files |
My fork of postman_collection | 0.2.1 | Deserialize Postman collection files |
clap | 4.5.0 | Command Line Argument Parser |
tokio | 1.0.0 | Handle asynchronous requests |
strum | 0.26.2 | Enum facilities |
lazy_static | 1.4.0 | Allows for more flexible constants. Mainly used for accessing CLI arguments everywhere |
regex | 1.10.3 | Regex. Using for parsing requests URL |
The binary file size goes from ~4.5 MB to ~7 MB depending on the platform. I try to keep it as small as possible.
- Cargo, Brew - @julien-cpsn
- Arch - @orhun
The MIT license for this project can be seen here