🔬 Rentgen

🌐 Rentgen website

👉 https://rentgen.io

Rentgen is an API testing tool that works like an X-ray: it exposes what’s really happening inside your APIs.

but built for:

• 🚀 Generate hundreds of tests - from one simple request
• 🔌 WebSockets (WSS) — live bi-directional testing
• 📦 Protobuf payloads — load .proto schemas, encode requests, decode responses
• 🛠️ Raw testing freedom — send malformed or ugly payloads without restrictions
• 🏗️ Lightweight and no complex setup

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✨ Why Rentgen?

Fokus on what to test not how to test.

Rentgen lets you do all of this in a familiar Postman-like interface.

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🚀 Key Features

• 🧪 Data-Driven Testing — generate dozens of tests from a single request using smart datasets and field type detection - (string, number, email, etc.)
• 🔒 Security & Headers Audit — built-in OWASP checks for headers, methods, CORS, and authorization handling
• ⚡ Performance Insights — median response time, ping latency, and load test with live p50/p90/p95 metrics
• 📬 HTTP & WebSocket Support — send requests or connect to WSS endpoints, both JSON and Protobuf
• 🐛 Protobuf Integration — import .proto schemas to encode requests and decode binary responses
• 🧷 Randomized Payloads — randomInt, random32, and randomEmail for unique data in each request
• 🔁 Load & Stress Testing — multi-threaded (up to 100 concurrent) requests with automatic abort on slowdowns
• 🧩 Automatic Field Mapping — detects all body and query params with editable type selection
• 🖥️ Postman-like UI — instant usability, “Import cURL” support, and “Copy as cURL” for reproducibility
• 🌐 CORS & SSL Controls — detect public vs private APIs, and optionally bypass SSL for staging servers

…and more. Built for QA engineers who need real testing, not just “sending requests.”

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🎬 Demo

🧠 Real-world API test example and results

I tested ChatGPT’s backend API using RENTGEN — the exact same endpoint used by the web app:

Endpoint: https://chatgpt.com/backend-api/f/conversation/prepare

In less than a minute, RENTGEN automatically generated and executed 200+ API tests, including security, headers, and input validation checks.

Here’s what was found:

1️⃣ CORS policy wide open – API accepts requests from any domain (no CORS restriction). 2️⃣ Missing security headers – no X-Frame-Options or Cache-Control. 3️⃣ OPTIONS method not supported – violates API interoperability rules. 4️⃣ Body size handling broken – server returns 500 instead of 413 Payload Too Large. 5️⃣ Authorization handling inconsistent – returns 403 instead of expected 401. 6️⃣ Input validation missing – incorrect field types still return 200 OK. 7️⃣ 404 handling correct – works as expected. 8️⃣ Performance solid – median 184 ms response time.

📖 Read the full case study here: 👉 I tested ChatGPT’s backend API using RENTGEN, and found more issues than expected

🔧 Installation

Dev mode

git clone https://github.com/LiudasJan/Rentgen.git
cd rentgen
npm install
npm start

🖥️ Building executables

You can package Rentgen into a standalone app (.exe for Windows, .dmg for macOS, .AppImage for Linux)

### If you want to package the app (bundle it for distribution)
npm run package

### If you want a ready-to-distribute installer
npm run make