Hi! So Postman was eating 2gb of ram just to send a GET request, and Insomnia was forcing me into an account. Bruno was close to what I wanted, plain YAML files on disk, no account nonsense, but I live in the terminal and wanted something I could use without a mouse, so I built Noodle.

It is a TUI REST client. Requests are .yml files on disk. You browse collections in a sidebar, edit requests inline, swap environments at runtime, send them, and save changes back. No accounts. No telemetry. Just YAML files you can commit to git.

What works:

Full request lifecycle, browse, edit, send, save

Create, edit, delete and nest requests on folders

Inline editing for url, headers, params, body. Keyboard-first, customizable keybindings at \~/.config/noodle/keybinds.yml

Basic, Bearer, API Key built-in authentication

Environment switching with $var substitution, cycle environments at runtime without restarting

Send JSON body, multipart form data, URL-encoded, raw text, binary uploads

OpenAPI 3.x and Postman importer (CLI only for now, UI is on the list)

Tab to cycle focus between sidebar, request pane, response pane

f1 pulls up a keybinding cheatsheet

Not there yet: pre/post scripts, assertions, runner, autocompletion, collection export and other features, but they are all on the roadmap.

Install:

curl -LsSf [https://noodlerest.dev/install.sh](https://noodlerest.dev/install.sh) | sh

Repo: [github.com/wilfredinni/noodle](http://github.com/wilfredinni/noodle)

Docs: [https://noodlerest.dev/docs/](https://noodlerest.dev/docs/)

Roadmap: [https://noodlerest.dev/roadmap/](https://noodlerest.dev/roadmap/)

I built this for myself but figured others might want something similar. Feedback is greatly appreciated.

Noodle: a REST client for your terminal