Spectator is a native application written in Vala using GTK. It's enables you to test the API endpoints of your HTTP server.

• Do requests to a web server
• Handle Basic Proxy Server
• Scripting capabilities
• Create collections of requests
• Create request enviroments
• Create test enviroments for your collections

Right now Spectator allows you to make single requests to a web endpoint. In the long run it shall give you to give you the ability to create enviroments and collections to make your workflow more fluent.

You'll need the following dependencies:

• flatpak-builder

If you are not on elementary OS then you may also have to install the flatpak package before compiling.

To build and install, use flatpak-builder.

flatpak-builder buildir com.github.treagod.spectator.yml --install --user --force-clean

Then you can run the app with flatpak run com.github.treagod.spectator.

Once you are done testing and want to remove the app, run flatpak uninstall com.github.treagod.spectator.

If you instead want to completely remove both the app and its user data, run flatpak uninstall com.github.treagod.spectator --delete-data.

Flatpak building is the only officially supported build method, though building in the Debian format is possible via meson:

meson build --prefix=/usr
cd build
ninja

And can then be installed with sudo ninja install