LocalStack httpbin extension

A simple HTTP Request & Response Service directly in LocalStack using httpbin. Get the full httpbin experience directly in LocalStack without connecting to httpbin.org!

The httpbin API is served through the hostname http://httpbin.localhost.localstack.cloud:4566.

Install

Install the extension by running:

localstack extensions install localstack-extension-httpbin

Usage

Opening http://httpbin.localhost.localstack.cloud:4566 in the browser will show you the flasgger UI:

And you can call the API endpoints just as you would httpbin.org.

Development

Install local development version

To install the extension into localstack in developer mode, you will need Python 3.10, and create a virtual environment in the extensions project.

In the newly generated project, simply run

make install

Then, to enable the extension for LocalStack, run

localstack extensions dev enable .

You can then start LocalStack with EXTENSION_DEV_MODE=1 to load all enabled extensions:

EXTENSION_DEV_MODE=1 localstack start

Licensing

• httpbin is licensed under the ISC license: https://github.com/postmanlabs/httpbin/blob/master/LICENSE
• The httpbin source code is vendored with this extension, slight modifications were made to make it compatible with the latest Python and Werkzeug version. The modifications retain the ISC license
• The extension code is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License