What is the best rest client to learn/test elasticsearch with?

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Hi all,

I've been learning about Elasticsearch since Friday, and I think it's pretty great, but I'm wondering what you all think is the best rest client to learn/test elasticsearch with?

I'm using the httprequester plugin in Firefox and have recently discovered Postman. What other ways are out there? What did you use to learn the Elasticsearch api?

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If you want to play around with the API, using Kibana's "Console" is probably the best thing to try. It provides a nice UI for performing requests, and has auto-completion for different parts of the API.

It's pretty easy to get started with, download Kibana 5.0, run bin/kibana (after extracting it) and then navigate to http://localhost:5601/app/kibana#/dev_tools/console to play around!

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