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Watching SSE streams live

Open text/event-stream endpoints in Pigeon and watch SSE events arrive live. Newest on top, Stop anytime. Free open-source macOS API client.

Live SSE event stream panel with tick events arriving in a dark response viewer.

Some endpoints don’t return once. They stream. Chat tokens, job progress, webhook-style ticks — text/event-stream and a connection that stays open.

Pigeon renders SSE as it arrives. Events show up live. Newest on top so you see what just happened without scrolling through history.

Stop when you’re done

Hit Stop and the stream closes. No orphaned connection hanging in the background while you jump to another tab.

Good for

  • Checking that your server actually emits what you think it emits
  • Debugging event order without a separate viewer
  • Demo-ing a live endpoint without leaving the client

Same send button. Stream-aware response pane.

Get Pigeon

curl -fsSL https://trypigeon.dev/install.sh | sh

Open source, free forever: github.com/pigeon-client/pigeon. Star it if it saves you a few clicks.