v0.8.3

0.8.3 — 2026-07-02

viewbus now has a local API you can build on. While the app is running it serves a small HTTP API on your machine, so your own scripts, launcher plugins, and editor tasks can search what viewbus has already indexed and drive the app — no SDK, just HTTP.

New

• Local HTTP API. While viewbus is open it exposes a read-plus-focus API on 127.0.0.1: check status, fuzzy-search your indexed queues, topics, and subscriptions, and bring the app to the front on a specific resource. Ideal for a Raycast, Alfred, or PowerToys command, a VS Code task, or a quick script.
• Local-only by design. The API binds loopback, authenticates with a fresh per-launch token, and rejects browser requests — nothing on your network or the web can reach it. On by default; turn it off with localApi.enabled: false in settings.
• Developer docs. A new guide at viewbus.app/developers walks through it with copy-paste examples in cURL, TypeScript, Python, C#, and Rust.

All local-first as always. Update via the in-app updater or grab a fresh installer from viewbus.app — your settings, themes, monitored sets, and stored connections carry over untouched.