Intercepting HTTP requests from #electron apps with #postman
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Not all APIs are documented. In a recent project — VSCodeThemes, I set out to scrape the Visual Studio Marketplace without an official API.Using Chrome’s network inspector and capturing requests made from the #vscode desktop app, I was able reverse engineer the marketplace API.This post will cover how you can use Postman to intercept HTTP requests from Electron applications with only a few clicks.Start Postman’s proxyThis first thing you’re going to do is open Postman. If you don’t have it you can download it from here.Once it’s opened, configuring Postman’s #proxy server is as simple as clicking on the Satellite icon.Click the Satellite icon to configure the proxy server.Using the defaults will start the proxy server on port 5555 and log all output to history. Click the Connect button to start the (...)