# 4yk5/Ghostman

> A terminal-based, keyboard-driven API client and webhook inspector that runs fully locally, storing collections as YAML files. It targets developers who want a fast, lightweight alternative to Postman and Insomnia without cloud accounts or Electron overhead.

- Magnitude: 2.9 out of 10 — Early signal
- Stars: 36 total · +19 stars measured 2026-10-31, 17:07–19:15 UTC, ≈ 23 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Developer tools · Language: Python · License: MIT · Created: 2026-10-30 · Last push: 2026-10-30
- GitHub: https://github.com/4yk5/Ghostman · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/4yk5/Ghostman

## Useful for

- Send HTTP requests with custom headers and JSON bodies from the terminal
- Catch and inspect incoming webhooks locally on port 9090 without ngrok
- Commit .ghostman/collections.yaml to Git to share API collections with a team

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-31 (UTC), 17:07–19:15: 17 → 36 stars (+19). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +23 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- The repository is 1 day old and already has 36 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
- Hacker News: “Show HN: Ghostman – A fast, keyboard-driven TUI API client and webhook inspector” — 25 points, 1 day ago.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 1
- Issues and pull requests: 1
- Watchers: 0
- Average over the last week: 14 per day
- Usual pace: too little history (under two weeks)
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 10

## Stars per day, last 2 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-30 … 2026-10-31: 5, 19

## Hacker News

- Show HN: Ghostman – A fast, keyboard-driven TUI API client and webhook inspector — 25 points, 18 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50300902

## Spotted in now

- Spotted on Hacker News

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-31 19:21 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.