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The default API tooling that comes to your mind is Postman.

Postman is cloud based - the other offline alternatives are on their way to enshittification.

Is there any solution to the problem or we should all default to curl.

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[–] monomon@programming.dev 3 points 2 weeks ago

In emacs, there is http mode, and you can have http code blocks straight in an org mode document, it's amazing. And it works with the overall org babel system, so variables can come from other blocks, potentially in different languages.