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Getting Started With Requestly Desktop App

Requestly desktop app helps you Intercept, Record & Modify HTTP(s) requests for all browsers, Android and iOS apps. Available on all platforms, You can install the desktop app from the downloads page.

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Go to Connected Apps section to launch a browser or Connect to external devices like Android & iOS apps.

Intro Video​

  • Switch environment for JS Code & APIs
    • e.g. Loading JS/APIs from dev environment on production sites
  • Swapping scripts on live client sites
    • e.g. Swap Tag Manager or other SaaS solution scripts from prod version to staging version
  • Testing & Debugging Content-Security-Policy Header
  • Debugging CORS Issues (Using Modify Headers and modifying Access-Control-* headers)
  • Debugging (or Modifying) API responses in production sites
  • Manipulating Query Parameters for testing purposes
    • Highly used in Ad Pixels & Analytics testing
  • Modifying GraphQL Queries sent to the server programatically and test handling in app
  • Testing different failover and edge cases in app by serving different API responses
  • Simulating latency on APIs and other resources like scripts & Images
  • Testing your app with 4xx or 5xx HTTP response status codes
  • Save and share network session with teammates for collaborative debugging.
  • You can review network requests, inspect response payloads, and analyze the sequence of events during the debugging session.

Traffic Table and filtering​

After connecting apps, all the network traffic is logged in the traffic table. The traffic table supports filtering based on-

  • method, status code, content type.
  • apps or domains

Traffic table can be searched using keyword as well as using regex.

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Filtering on network traffic table

Right-click on a network request for more options​

When right-clicking any request, a context menu is opened which shows options to copy URL, copy cURL, edit and replay the request, create rules etc.

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Right-click on request

Edit and replay a request​

Any of the network request edited and replayed by right-clicking on it and selecting edit and replay.

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Edit and replay the request

Github​

You can visit Requestly's Github repository to stay updated with our progress, report bugs, and submit requests to our team.