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Ganesan Chandran edited this page Aug 25, 2024
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"Don't leave from VSCode, Stay with it
- For Rest API testing. 😎
Fetch Client is Visual Studio Code extension which is used to test the Rest API.
- Open Source
- Lightweight
- UI Customization and support VSCode Themes.
- Test Rest API request with GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD and OPTIONS methods.
- Run curl requests.
- Various authorization mechanisms such as Basic Auth, Bearer Token, API Key and AWS Signature.
- Various post body which are Form, Form-Encoded, Raw (Json, Plain Text, XML), Binary File and GraphQL.
- Syntax highlight for Response data.
- Tree view for JSON and XML responses and HTML preview for HTML responses.
- History, Collection,
Encrypted
Environment Variable is supported. - Test the API request and response data without any scripts/code.
- Generate code snippet for various languages.
- Save response and test results as File.
-
Bulk Export/Import
theFetch Client/Postman/Thunder Client's
collections and environment variables. - Add documentation/feedback for each request.
- Set the environment variable data from the response.
- Manage the Cookies.
- Pre-requests in request level as well as collection/folder level.
- Run all the requests in the collection using single click.
- Save all request data in the custom/workspace folder (Team collaboration).
- Supports system variables
- View request and response logs.
- Install via VSCode Extensions
- Open VSCode Extensions panel using
Ctrl+Shift+X
shortcut. - Type
Fetch Client
in Search bar. - Select the
Fetch Client
and install the extension.
- Open VSCode Extensions panel using
- Click the
Fetch Client
icon on the activity bar (left side of the VSCode) or use theCtl+Alt+N
shortcut. - On the Fetch Client
Quick Access
bar, click theNew Request
button to test the Rest API. - Select the
Http method
and enter theURL
and other parameters such as query parameters, headers, auth details, request body (if required) and click theSend
button. - The response data will be displayed in the
Response
section. We can view the response data in the Tree view format forJSON
andXML
responses and HTML preview forHTML
responses. - All existing requests are available in the
History
section in the Quick Access Bar.
Fetch Client v1.0.0