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How to replay and edit an API request

Record the call with RequestFox, open its card and press Replay to send it again as it was, or Edit & Replay to change the method, address, headers or body first. While recording, the request goes through the page, with its cookies and session.

For RequestFox 2.4.0.

Compose: a request and its indented JSON answer, with the headers open
A request opened in Compose, with its answer.

Steps

  1. Record the call

    Press Start in RequestFox and do what makes the call. How to record API calls.

  2. Open its card

    Click the call in the list. Search with tokens such as method:POST or status:500 to find it fast.

  3. Press Replay to send it as it was

    The answer shows on the card, for example "Replayed → 200". The secrets redaction hides are still sent, because the replay uses the unredacted copy kept in memory.

  4. Or press Edit & Replay to change it first

    Change the method, address, headers or body, then press Replay.

  5. Keep it for later

    Open in Compose turns it into a request you can save to a collection, use with environments and {{variables}}, and send again any time.

When the page's CORS rules block it

A replay normally runs as the page. If the API does not allow the page's origin, a GET, HEAD or OPTIONS replay is sent again from the extension by itself; other methods offer "Replay from the extension" first. Sent that way, a request has no page cookies and is marked FROM EXTENSION in the log.

Outside the browser

Copy as code gives you the same request in 15 languages, cURL for bash and Windows cmd included, plus PowerShell, fetch, Node.js, Python, HTTPie, Go, Java, C#, PHP, Ruby, Swift, Kotlin and Rust.

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