The HTTP client that doesn't slow you down.
Send requests, inspect responses, replay scraping sessions.
No account. No cloud. No subscription. Local-first. Always yours.
{
"status": "success",
"url": "https://shop.example.com/products",
"content": "<!DOCTYPE html>...",
"resolvedUrl": "https://shop.example.com/products?page=1",
"cookies": [
{ "name": "session_id", "value": "abc123" }
]
}Features
Everything a scraping engineer needs.
Nothing you don't.
Built from real pain points. Every feature exists because a scraping engineer hit a wall with every other client.
Gzip · Brotli · Deflate
Response bodies are automatically decompressed. No manual Accept-Encoding juggling — just readable content, always.
SSE Streaming
Watch Server-Sent Events arrive in real time. Full event log with data, id, and event type — perfect for debugging AI APIs.
Persistent Cookie Jar
Cookies survive restarts. Your scraping session state is saved to disk automatically — no re-login on every run.
Auto-Headers Engine
Content-Type, Accept, and User-Agent are set automatically based on request type. Override or disable per-request.
Large Response Handling
2MB+ response bodies are captured and can be saved directly to disk. No more browser tab crashes on big payloads.
Every Auth Scheme
Basic, Bearer, API Key, OAuth2 client credentials, and AWS SigV4. Tokens are cached and auto-refreshed before expiry.
Scraping-native
Designed around the
scraping workflow.
Fire your first request
Paste a URL, pick a method, hit send. Scrapeman sets Content-Type, Accept, and User-Agent automatically — exactly like a real browser would.
Inspect the response
Gzip, Brotli, Deflate — all decoded automatically. Large responses don't choke the UI. Save multi-MB payloads straight to disk.
Replay with state
Cookies persist between restarts. OAuth2 tokens are cached. Your scraping session survives a reboot — pick up exactly where you left off.
Comparison
How Scrapeman stacks up
We picked the features that actually matter for scraping workflows.
| Feature | Scrapeman | Postman | Bruno | Insomnia |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Local storage (no cloud) | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| No account required | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| Auto-decompress gzip/brotli | Yes | No | No | No |
| Persistent cookie jar | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| SSE event streaming | Yes | No | No | No |
| 2MB+ body + save to disk | Yes | No | No | No |
| AWS SigV4 auth | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| OAuth2 client credentials | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Auto-set Content-Type | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| Free forever | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| Open source | Yes | No | Yes | No |
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Start scraping
without compromise.
Free. Local-first. No account. No subscription. No data ever leaves your machine.
macOS 13.0+ · Apple Silicon & Intel · Free forever
Your data, your machine
All requests, responses, and cookies live on your disk. Nothing is uploaded anywhere.
No subscription cliff
Free forever. No trial period. No premium tier that locks your history behind a paywall.
Open source
Audit the code, contribute a feature, or fork it. Built in the open on GitHub.