insomnia-plugin-easy-share v0.1.1

Easy Share (Insomnia Plugin)

Easy share is an insomnia rest client plugin which provides single click request collection sharing feature. It is very easy to use.

Still Underdevelopment ALPHA

How to get it ?

You can download it directly from insomnia plugin hub, insomnia-easy-share

or you can install it using Preferences Settings,

• Visit, Menu > Application > Preferences > Plugins
• Install insomnia-plugin-easy-share

How to configure

Plugin need to configure with a backend server to do this go to Manage Environments > Base Environement of your request collection then add following environment variables,

{
  "_easy_share_server": "https://insomnia-easy-share.herokuapp.com",
  "_easy_share_id": "<collection-name>",
  "_easy_share_pwd": "<collection-password>"
}

Note: This password doesn't protect your data. Anyone who know the id can retrieve data.

How to use

Share your collection

First of all configure the request collection according to above section. Then you can click Share Collection to push the request collection backend.

Then anyone who wants to pull the request collection can use Insomnia Dashboard > Create > URL option for retreive data.

After that both of them can use Share Collection and Download Collection feature to pull and push the requestion collection respectively to the backend server.

Self deployed backend

You can use https://insomnia-easy-share.herokuapp.com as the backend server but it is recommended to use self deployed server because https://insomnia-easy-share.herokuapp.com might not be reliable. To self deploy your own use docker image thilinatlm/insomnia-plugin-easy-share-server.