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Requestly is the company blog at requestly.io, writing about programming and web. Since 2020, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-24, and you can follow it by feed.
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Design, build and test APIs in one place. The Git-native API client, enterprise-ready, used by 300,000+ developers.
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Hey, This is Sachin - founder @ Requestly. At Requestly, We have solved primarily the problems of web developers often needing the capabilities to test local scripts in production (or staging environment), modifying headers, host scripts online. Even today, tools like Charles, Fiddler fail to solve simple use cases of Redirection, Headers, Simulating Delays, Scripts Injection in a simple user-friendly way. After all…
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on “HTTP Toolkit”Submitted Why you should switch to Brave from Google Chrome as a story · 11 points
HN discussionWe are in a similar space, our tool ( https://caido.io ) is geared toward bug bounty hunters and pentesters. HTTP Toolkit looks great congrats to the dev! It seems to compete more with requestly ( https://requestly.io/ ) than burp suite ( https://portswigger.net/ ).
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on “HTTP Toolkit”Submitted Demystifying how Postman Web works as a story · 5 points
HN discussionYes, You can do this with Requestly desktop app. You can use Modify Response feature to just specify a URL then specify the status code you need like 400 or 500 and then you can also specify what content do you want to return. Requestly also lets you write a simple JS script to change something in the existing content. Here are some references for you - About Modify Response ( https://requestly.io/feature/modify-res…
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on “Launch HN: Requestly (YC W22) – Network debugging proxy for web and mobile”Submitted Comparing API Clients: Postman vs. Hoppscotch vs. Insomnia vs. ThunderClient as a story · 4 points
HN discussionCongratulations! Looks super cool! How challenging will it be to continue offering Chrome browser extension with the v3 manifest changes related to the blocking webRequest API? Does it impact requestly? The Linux page, https://requestly.io/downloads/linux/ , has MacOS instructions instead of Linux.
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on “Launch HN: Requestly (YC W22) – Network debugging proxy for web and mobile”Submitted What Is Requestly as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI've been building a list of apps and libraries in this space. In no particular order: https://requestly.io/ https://portswigger.net/burp https://dutzi.github.io/tamper/ https://anyproxy.io/en/ https://wproxy.org/whistle/ https://www.telerik.com/fiddler https://github.com/alibaba/lightproxy https://httptoolkit.tech/ https://mitmproxy.org/ https://wiki.squid-cache.org/Features/SslPeekAndSplice https://www.charlesprox…
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on “Launch HN: Requestly (YC W22) – Network debugging proxy for web and mobile”Submitted What is Ngrok and how does it work? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionOur Native SDK provides listening to API Requests and Analytics events in your app. In order to view JS blogs or Images, you can use the desktop app - https://requestly.io/desktop We provide the capability that you can disable the SDK in production builds and enable only in the debug builds. And yes we are going to provide the capability using which you can download or share the APIs and events sessions with your su…
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on “Launch HN: Requestly (YC W22) – Network debugging proxy for web and mobile”Submitted Operation name in GraphQL queries can do more than just improve server side logs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSo glad to hear this. This is really good feedback. Noted this down. We will soon make this live. We already have an animated gif at https://requestly.io/feature/redirect-url/ Do you mean to say we should have an animated flowchart for the hero image on the page?
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on “Launch HN: Requestly (YC W22) – Network debugging proxy for web and mobile”Submitted Requestly – browser extension to debug / modify network requests – turns 6 as a story · 1 points
HN discussion@jwong_ We are about to do a public release of Android SDK. Here are a couple of things which we did for internal purpose only (& WIP) but still sharing to give you an idea https://youtu.be/gs02m2pZJlQ (Demo Video) https://requestly.io/android-interceptor/ (WIP - Landing Page) I'd be really happy to discuss further on this approach. I believe this is going to make things really easy for developers.
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on “Launch HN: Requestly (YC W22) – Network debugging proxy for web and mobile”I started building Requestly ( https://requestly.io ) as a side-project back in 2014 and It took me pretty much every Saturday for 7y to hit ~$2K revenue and to get few companies paying for the product. It was slightly hard to monetize chrome extension due to lack of payments APIs support in chrome ecosystem. I actually went full time in Sep'21 and was fortunate enough to get into YC(W22). Now we are a small team ba…
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on “Ask HN: Side project of more that $2k monthly revenue what's your project?”If you want to intercept and modify a incoming json response for some specific url pattern, would a service worker be a good way to do so? To illustrate, assume I frequently browse a blog and want to trick my browser into thinking that I have "favorited" every post. It's trivial to write a for loop that iterates over response.json and sets `is_favorite = true`. But it's not as clear to me where this script should id…
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on “Tell HN: Service Workers === Browser Background Tasks”Requestly founder here! If you're still looking for a solution to modify HTTP Headers [0], you can try Requestly - An Open-source[1] Chrome & Firefox extension to intercept & modify network requests. Although Requestly is a freemium product, the free plan offers unlimited HTTP header modifications. You can get Requestly here[2] [0]: https://requestly.io/blog/modify-headers-in-https-requests-a... [1]: https://github.…
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on “Tell HN: The popular Chrome extension ModHeader is injecting ads into searches”Chrome DevTools provides complete visibility into what's happening inside your web application, from the HTML DOM at any given point to the network requests your app fired. Chrome DevTools also provides latency information for every API/network request, performance insights, step-by-step debugging for your source code, and an interactive console. Although Chrome DevTools lack the capability of modifying HTTP request…
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