# Noodle: A delicious REST client for your terminal

> Source: <https://noodlerest.dev/>
> Published: 2026-08-26 19:21:48+00:00

## Fast by default

Stay in the terminal and keep your hands on the keyboard.

Open-source terminal REST client

Write, send, inspect, and automate HTTP requests from readable files without leaving your terminal. Keep every collection versioned beside the code it exercises, ready for the TUI, CLI, scripts, and coding agents.

curl -LsSf https://noodlerest.dev/install.sh | shStay in the terminal and keep your hands on the keyboard.

Keep requests and environments readable beside your code.

Use the same collection from the TUI, CLI, scripts, and agents.

Every request is a readable YAML file. Edit it in Noodle or your editor, review it in Git, and keep it beside the code it exercises.

```
name: Get user
method: GET
url: "$base_url/users/:id"
headers:
  Accept: application/json
params:
  id: 42
{
  "id": 42,
  "name": "Ada Lovelace",
  "role": "developer"
}
```

Compose a request, send it, then move through body, headers, cookies, and timing from the same keyboard-first workspace.

Switch between development, staging, and production variables. Secret declarations stay in the file while values live in the OS credential vault or process environment.

`API_TOKEN`

OS credential vault`noodle request run users/get --collection ./api`

`noodle collection audit ./api`

`noodle collection run ./api smoke/ health --env staging --json`

`noodle agent install`

status success · exit 0 · JSON available

Explore interactively in the TUI, chain captured response values across ordered runs, enforce response assertions, or give coding agents the supported Noodle skill.

Focused enough to stay fast, complete enough to handle real API work.

URL, params, headers, body, and auth

Body, headers, cookies, status, timing, and assertions

Folders, inherited context, and Git-friendly files

Switchable variables and secure values

Proxy, TLS, mTLS, and authentication

Import OpenAPI, Swagger, Postman, and Insomnia. Export OpenAPI and Postman.

Planned directions, clearly separated from what Noodle ships today.

Install Noodle and open your first collection.

curl -LsSf https://noodlerest.dev/install.sh | sh