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About Hoppscotch

A free, fast and beautiful API request builder.

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Hoppscotch

Open source API development ecosystem

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Features

❤️ Lightweight: Crafted with minimalistic UI design.

⚡️ Fast: Send requests and get/copy responses in real-time.

HTTP Methods

GET - Requests retrieve resource information
POST - The server creates a new entry in a database
PUT - Updates an existing resource
PATCH - Very similar to PUT but makes a partial update on a resource
DELETE - Deletes resource or related component
HEAD - Retrieve response headers identical to those of a GET request, but without the response body.
CONNECT - Establishes a tunnel to the server identified by the target resource
OPTIONS - Describe the communication options for the target resource
TRACE - Performs a message loop-back test along the path to the target resource
<custom> - Some APIs use custom request methods such as LIST. Type in your custom methods.

🌈 Make it yours: Customizable combinations for background, foreground, and accent colors — customize now.

Theming

Choose a theme: System (default), Light, Dark, and Black
Choose accent color: Green (default), Teal, Blue, Indigo, Purple, Yellow, Orange, Red, and Pink
Distraction-free Zen mode

Customized themes are synced with cloud / local session

🔥 PWA: Install as a PWA on your device.

Instant loading with Service Workers
Offline support
Low RAM/memory and CPU usage
Add to Home Screen
Desktop PWA

🚀 Request: Retrieve response from endpoint instantly.

Choose method
Enter URL
Send
Copy/share public "Share URL"
Generate/copy request code snippets for 10+ languages and frameworks
Import cURL
Label requests

🔌 WebSocket: Establish full-duplex communication channels over a single TCP connection.

📡 Server-Sent Events: Receive a stream of updates from a server over an HTTP connection without resorting to polling.

🌩 Socket.IO: Send and Receive data with SocketIO server.

🦟 MQTT: Subscribe and Publish to topics of an MQTT Broker.

🔮 GraphQL: GraphQL is a query language for APIs and a runtime for fulfilling those queries with your existing data.

Set endpoint and get schema
Multi-column docs
Set custom request headers
Query schema
Get query response

🔐 Authorization: Allows to identify the end-user.

None
Basic
Bearer Token
OAuth 2.0
OIDC Access Token/PKCE

📢 Headers: Describes the format the body of your request is being sent as.

📫 Parameters: Use request parameters to set varying parts in simulated requests.

📃 Request Body: Used to send and receive data via the REST API.

Set Content Type
FormData, JSON, and many more
Toggle between key-value and RAW input parameter list

👋 Response: Contains the status line, headers, and the message/response body.

Copy response to clipboard
Download response as a file
View response headers
View raw and preview of HTML, image, JSON, XML responses

⏰ History: Request entries are synced with cloud / local session storage to restore with a single click.

📁 Collections: Keep your API requests organized with collections and folders. Reuse them with a single click.

Unlimited collections, folders, and requests
Nested folders
Export and import as a file or GitHub gist

Collections are synced with cloud / local session storage

🌐 Proxy: Enable Proxy Mode from Settings to access blocked APIs.

Hide your IP address
Fixes CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing) issues
Access APIs served in non-HTTPS (http://) endpoints
Use your Proxy URL

Official proxy server is hosted by Hoppscotch - GitHub - Privacy Policy

📜 Pre-Request Scripts β: Snippets of code associated with a request that is executed before the request is sent.

Set environment variables
Include timestamp in the request headers
Send a random alphanumeric string in the URL parameters
Any JavaScript functions

📄 API Documentation: Create and share dynamic API documentation easily, quickly.

Add your requests to Collections and Folders
Export Collections and easily share your APIs with the rest of your team
Import Collections and Generate Documentation on-the-go

⌨️ Keyboard Shortcuts: Optimized for efficiency.

Read our documentation on Keyboard Shortcuts

🌎 i18n: Experience the app in your language.

Help us to translate Hoppscotch. Please read TRANSLATIONS for details on our CODE OF CONDUCT, and the process for submitting pull requests to us.

📦 Add-ons: Official add-ons for hoppscotch.

Proxy - A simple proxy server created for Hoppscotch
CLI β - A CLI solution for Hoppscotch
Browser Extensions - Browser extensions that simplifies access to Hoppscotch

Firefox | Chrome

Extensions fixes CORS issues.

Hopp-Doc-Gen - An API doc generator CLI for Hoppscotch

Add-ons are developed and maintained under Hoppscotch Organization.

☁️ Auth + Sync: Sign in and sync your data in real-time.

Sign in with

GitHub
Google
Microsoft
Email

Synchronize your data

History
Collections
Environments
Settings

✅ Post-Request Tests β: Write tests associated with a request that is executed after the request's response.

Check the status code as an integer
Filter response headers
Parse the response data
Set environment variables
Write JavaScript code

🌱 Environments : Environment variables allow you to store and reuse values in your requests and scripts.

Unlimited environments and variables
Initialize through the pre-request script
Export as / import from GitHub gist

Use-cases

--- - By storing a value in a variable, you can reference it throughout your request section - If you need to update the value, you only have to change it in one place - Using variables increases your ability to work efficiently and minimizes the likelihood of error ---

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Teams β: Helps you collaborate across your team to design, develop, and test APIs faster.

Unlimited teams
Unlimited shared collections
Unlimited team members
Role-based access control
Cloud sync
Multiple devices

🚚 Bulk Edit: Edit key-value pairs in bulk.

Entries are separated by newline
Keys and values are separated by :
Prepend # to any row you want to add but keep disabled

For more features, please read our documentation.

Demo

hoppscotch.io

Usage

Provide your API endpoint in the URL field
Click "Send" to simulate the request
View the response

Built with

Developing

Update .env.example file found in the root of repository with your own keys and rename it to .env.

Sample keys only work with the production build.

Browser-based development environment

Local development environment

Clone this repo with git.
Install pnpm using npm by running npm install -g pnpm.
Install dependencies by running pnpm install within the directory that you cloned (probably hoppscotch).
Start the development server with pnpm run dev.
Open the development site by going to http://localhost:3000 in your browser.

Docker compose

Clone this repo with git.
Run docker-compose up within the directory that you cloned (probably hoppscotch).
Open the development site by going to http://localhost:3000 in your browser.

Docker

Official container

docker run --rm --name hoppscotch -p 3000:3000 hoppscotch/hoppscotch:latest

Releasing

Clone this repo with git.
Install pnpm using npm by running npm install -g pnpm.
Install dependencies by running pnpm install within the directory that you cloned (probably hoppscotch).
Update .env.example file found in the root of repository with your own keys and rename it to .env.
Build the release files with pnpm run generate.
Find the built project in packages/hoppscotch-web/dist. Host these files on any static hosting servers.