Requestly: A Lightweight, Git Native API Client That Lives on Your Machine, Not in the Cloud

Back in October, I was deep into Hacktoberfest . Like many developers, I was looking for open source projects to contribute to and learn something new. I spent hours browsing repositories, reading issues, and trying to find something that I could work on. One evening, while scrolling through YouTube, a video from Hitesh Choudhary Sir's Chai aur Code channel popped up. The title was something about " Best API Clients ." I clicked out of curiosity. In that video, Hitesh Sir was talking about different API clients he was exploring, and he mentioned that he had recently started using Requestly . He gave a quick demo and suggested viewers give it a try as well. I had been using Postman for everything up until then. It worked, but I'd started feeling that it was too heavy, too cloud‑focused, and honestly, I wasn't thrilled about storing all my API keys and secrets on someone else's servers. But I hadn't really looked for alternatives. That video was the nudge I needed. So I went to Requestly