Skip to content
EN

Software · Development

GetIt

GetIt is an API client, available on Linux: syntax highlighting.

  • Completely free
  • Linux
  • Open source

Overview

GetIt is an API client, available on Linux.

Features described in its Flathub listing and on its official website: syntax highlighting.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “The response can be viewed either as syntax highlighted code, with JSON even being made readable, as the raw output, which means no syntax highlighting, and view it in a webview.” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
  • “Open Source HTTP client to test your API's.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

GetIt is completely free: it is open source software, and every feature is available without paying or subscribing.

Its licence (GPL-3.0+) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • Commercial use allowed

About

GetIt's main focus is to make your life a lot easier when you have to test APIs or use somebody else's API. We know it can be hard to find a great, simple and open source application for this task that's not command line based. You can send numerous requests to a webserver. You can send RAW post data, form post data, add cookies to your request and add headers to your request. The response can be viewed either as syntax highlighted code, with JSON even being made readable, as the raw output, which means no syntax highlighting, and view it in a webview. Features of GetIt include: Sending HTTP requests to API endpoints and display the response of the server Saving and opening requests Easily open recent saved/opened requests Sending custom POST data Syntax highlighting for all responses Preview for HTML response Make JSON response look beautiful automatically

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Official plan pages (pricing, licence, terms) (commercial use) —
  • Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Last technical check: 8 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

How listings are built →

Do you develop GetIt?

Correct this listing with the report form, or cite it with this optional badge (it shows the verified free status and changes nothing in the ranking):

<a href="https://licitpro.fr/en/resource/getit"><img src="https://licitpro.fr/badge/getit.svg?l=en" alt="Listed on LicitPro" height="20"></a>

Developers and publishers →

In the same category

Visual Studio Code

Software

Visual Studio Code is a code editor, available on Windows, macOS and Linux: debugging and built-in terminal.

Completely freeWinMacLinux

DBeaver Community

Software · Open source

DBeaver Community is a database management program, available on Windows, macOS and Linux.

Completely freeWinMacLinux

Zed

Software · Open source

Zed is a code editor, available on Windows, macOS and Linux: code completion.

Limited free planWinMacLinux

Konsole

Software · Open source

Konsole is a terminal emulator, available on Windows and Linux: command-line use.

Completely freeWinLinux

DB Browser for SQLite

Software · Open source

DB Browser for SQLite is a database management program, available on Windows, macOS and Linux.

Completely freeWinMacLinux

pgAdmin 4

Software · Open source

Admin and development platform for PostgreSQL.

Completely freeWinMacLinux