Overview
Fetch Client is an all-in-one REST API development toolkit built directly into VS Code. Design, test, automate, validate, and monitor your APIs without leaving your editor.
✨ Key Features
- 🚀 Lightweight and fast
- 🌙 Native VS Code theme support
- 🔒 Privacy first - all data is stored locally
- 🌐 Full REST API support (GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS)
- 🔐 Multiple authentication methods (Basic, Bearer Token, API Key, OAuth 2.0, AWS Signature)
- 📦 Support for JSON, XML, Form Data, URL Encoded, Binary, and GraphQL requests
- 🌍 Global, Collection, Request, and Environment variables
- 🔄 Dynamic variables and expression support
- 🧪 Built-in visual API testing (no scripting required)
- ⚙️ Pre-requests with conditional execution
- 📁 Collections, folders, request history, and cookie management
- ▶️ Run individual requests, folders, or entire collections
- 🔁 Data-driven testing using JSON, CSV, and Excel
- ⚡ Performance testing with concurrent users and detailed metrics
- ⏰ Schedule and automate API requests
- 🔑 AWS Secrets Manager integration
- 🔒 TLS/mTLS client certificate support (PEM & PFX)
- 📥 Import from Fetch Client, Postman, Thunder Client, Insomnia, cURL, and OpenAPI
- 📤 Export collections to Fetch Client and Postman
- 📄 Export test and performance results as JSON, CSV, HTML and XML
- 💻 Generate code snippets in multiple programming languages
- ⚡ Import and run cURL commands instantly
- 📊 Beautiful response viewer with Tree, Raw, HTML Preview, Headers, and Cookies
- 🔍 Search and filter requests, collections, and variables
- 🖥️ Cross-platform support (Windows, macOS, and Linux)
- 🆓 Free and open source