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Dev tools · February 29, 2020

Protoman

An open source API client for protobuf messages

Protoman launched on February 29, 2020 with 6 votes, #1,040 of 3,162 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 6 years on.

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What it does

Protoman is an open source Postman-like API client for protobuf-based messages. Try this out if your team is using protobuf over http. Say good bye to writing scripts just to send a simple API call when developing/debugging!

Postman for protobuf APIs. Contribute to spluxx/Protoman development by creating an account on GitHub.

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