Bell

A REST scripting language

January 2024

I’ve always felt that Postman was too bogged down with menus. Collaboratively, Postman does not work as well as Github. Postman for teams is also expensive.

As a programmer, nothing is more clear than a simple script. It’s just text that does what it says it will do. Nothing is buried in menus or tabs.

So I came up with bell.

A simple bell file might look like this:

# status.GET.bell
id = 1234
url test.com/status/{id}
GET

A more complicated one like this:

# status.POST.bell

domain "test.com"
path "/login"

body
{
  username: "testuser",
  password: "testpass"
}

POST

token = response.body.token

path "/post"

headers
{
  Authorization: `Bearer: ${token}`
} 

body
{
  message: input('Write a message')
}

POST

log response.body.status

With the help of some syntax highlighting and VSCode plugins, this script language could be a viable alternative to Postman.