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[Feature Request] Command line switches for Insomnia

See original GitHub issue

As agreed with Insomnia support I’m creating this feature request with list of commands line switches I want you to implement in the first iteration. #479 is indeed too vague and is more like an epic which has to be split in smaller tasks.

Insomnia Version: 5.x
Operating System: macOS, Linux, Windows

Details

What about implementing the following functionality as part of the first commandline-related iteration:

insomnia --workspace|-w "Foo Bar" --request-id|-r 00000000aaabbbbccccc0000000`

with these switches I would expect Insomnia to open and switch to workspace Foo Bar (not sure if it’s really needed) and send the request with the following ID req_00000000aaabbbbccccc0000000

I would also like to have the second option for cases when I haven’t created any workspace / request in Insomnia, so I could explicitly indicate the URL, HTTP request type, headers etc

# Calls https://api.acme.com/v1.0/users URL with Accept: application/json header
insomnia --header|-H "Accept: application/json" https://api.acme.com/v1.0/users

# Sends a PUT request to https://api.acme.com/v1.0/users URL with
# Content-Type: application/json header and some JSON-encoded data
insomnia  --request-type|-X PUT \
                --header|-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
                --data|-d '{"name":"john","email":"j@acme.com"}' \
               https://api.acme.com/v1.0/users

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Created 6 years ago
Reactions:5
Comments:7 (1 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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salaroscommented, Apr 25, 2018

So do you have any ETA on this? I’m willing to donate or pay for a subscription etc if you implement this feature 👍

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salaroscommented, Feb 1, 2018

@gschier personally I like cURL syntax more, please read my proposal more carefully. IMO cURL’s command line options have a cleaner and better documented options.

As for why I need it:

I would like to be able to set Insomnia as “browser” while debugging APIs in Visual Studio / VS Code / Atom, so that it IDE will use it in its post build scripts
Additionally I would like to be able to include some scripts into my repositories. In this scripts I could call APIs using the awesome Insomnia software and fallback on cURL if Insomnia is not installed.

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