[jphilip]

I remember encountering Postman years ago when it was a chrome app where I'd fill some fields and use it against a server absent a frontend to prototype/test.

I never understood what's the improvement from having a headless client written in Python using requests or something and the data in source-code, kept versioned? I figure requests or similar libraries have something with sessions and cookies that allows me to issue requests against an active or mock server. This way I can specify the API, data to send each endpoints and possibly also use these snippets in testing.

I have usually taken this Python route when I've wanted something nicer (this is subjective) in comparison to cURL.

Can someone experienced here tell me the value add over something like this with Postman?