usebruno/bruno

Features

• REST Clients - Enables interaction with web services by sending standard HTTP methods.
• API Client Tools - Provides a declarative syntax for defining and executing HTTP requests to interact with web services.
• Local-First Development - Stores API collections as plain-text files on the local disk to enable native version control.
• GraphQL Clients - Allows users to send GraphQL queries and mutations to servers.
• Local-First API Clients - Stores API collections as plain-text files on the local filesystem to enable version control via Git.
• Multi-Protocol API Clients - Executes requests across multiple protocols including REST, GraphQL, gRPC, WebSocket, and SOAP for comprehensive service validation.
• Multi-Protocol Clients - Builds and debugs network requests for REST, GraphQL, gRPC, and WebSocket services within a unified environment.
• Environment Management - Groups API collections and configuration variables into isolated containers for managing multiple projects.
• API Authentication - Configures complex authorization flows including OAuth, NTLM, and cloud-specific signatures.
• File-Based Project Storage - Stores API requests and configurations as plain-text files on the local disk to enable native version control.
• API Documentation Generators - Generates structured documentation from markdown files at the workspace, collection, or request level.
• CI/CD Integrations - Executes collections via command line to run tests in pipelines and generate HTML reports.
• Environment Configuration Managers - Groups API collections and configuration variables into isolated containers for managing multiple projects and deployment environments.
• Environment Variable Managers - Replaces placeholders in request configurations with values from scoped environment files.
• Request Header Management - Supports defining custom key-value pairs in headers to send metadata or authentication information.
• OAuth Providers - Provides native support for configuring OAuth 2.0 authorization code flows and identity provider endpoints.
• Local-First Architectures - Maintains all project data and state locally to ensure full functionality without requiring cloud synchronization.
• API Testing - Validates API responses by writing test assertions that check status codes, response bodies, and data properties.
• Development Utilities - Lightweight IDE for exploring and testing API endpoints.
• API Clients - Offline-first API client for git-friendly workflows.
• API Development - Offline-first, Git-friendly API client for testing and debugging.
• API Testing - Open-source client for exploring and testing APIs.
• Development Tools - Git-friendly, offline-first API client for GraphQL.
• Repository Synchronization - Updates local files with remote repositories by pushing and pulling changes to maintain shared states.
• Request Execution Settings - Allows users to adjust redirect handling, timeout durations, and URL encoding.
• Request Scripting Environments - Executes custom logic after receiving server responses to process data and manage variables.
• Multi-Protocol Engines - Dispatches network calls across diverse protocols by abstracting underlying transport logic into a unified interface.
• Network Traffic Inspectors - Enables examination of headers, body content, and status codes to validate security and connection details.
• Proto File Management - Enables loading protocol buffer files to facilitate automatic method discovery.
• Client Credentials - Allows specifying token endpoints and client identifiers to set up OAuth 2.0 client credentials authentication.
• Declarative Configuration Languages - Uses a domain-specific language to define request parameters and metadata in human-readable text files.
• GraphQL Query Builders - Provides a visual interface to build GraphQL queries and mutations.
• Document Management Systems - Allows users to generate and preview formatted documentation by saving collection settings.
• Code Snippet Generators - Creates ready-to-use code snippets for API requests in multiple programming languages.
• Configuration Management - Stores dynamic values across global and request scopes to enable reusable configuration.
• Data-Driven Testing - Executes collections multiple times using CSV or JSON files to provide unique variables for each iteration.
• WebSocket Clients - Establishes and monitors persistent WebSocket connections while composing messages in various formats.
• Basic Authentication Strategies - Supports providing username and password credentials to secure API requests.
• Bearer Token Authentication Strategies - Enables providing valid tokens to secure API requests using standard bearer authentication methods.
• Environment Variable Management - Integrates with local environment file standards to manage sensitive configuration values securely.
• SAML Authentication - Manages single sign-on authentication using SAML protocols to secure access to team resources.
• SCIM Provisioning - Automates user lifecycle management using SCIM protocols to ensure secure enterprise team access.
• Secret Management Providers - Supports selecting authentication methods to securely manage sensitive environment variables using HashiCorp Vault.
• Token Management - Supports generating access tokens manually or enabling auto-fetch to maintain valid authentication states.
• GraphQL Variable Management - Supports passing dynamic values separately from query strings using JSON.
• Agent Automation - Enables the generation of collections and test scripts using natural language instructions.
• API Inspection Tools - Offers a dedicated panel with search functionality to analyze body content, headers, and status codes.
• Console Debuggers - Allows users to inspect execution logs and troubleshoot request logic within an interactive environment.
• cURL Importers - Parses cURL commands into structured API requests by pasting them into the interface.
• IDE Extensions - Provides API testing capabilities directly within the development environment via a dedicated extension.
• Parallel Execution - Executes multiple requests simultaneously during collection runs to improve performance.
• gRPC Stream Testing - Supports configuring requests to send multiple messages over persistent connections.
• Authentication Scripting - Enables retrieving token data and performing programmatic resets within scripts to handle authentication cycles.
• AWS Authentication Strategies - Applies AWS Signature authentication to securely access cloud-based services.
• Browser-Based Authentication Strategies - Leverages system browser sessions and saved credentials to handle OAuth flows securely.
• Cloud Secret Managers - Allows entering credentials and region settings to securely manage and retrieve collection secrets.
• Data Masking - Automatically masks authentication headers and secret variables in reports to prevent accidental data exposure.
• SSH Key Management - Generates security keys and registers them with remote services to enable passwordless repository access.
• Response Viewers - Provides a code editor and visual preview mode for inspecting response content.
• Cookie Management - Allows users to interact with cookies within the request interface to simulate browser behavior.

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