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A curated list of resources and guidelines for designing, implementing, and securing RESTful APIs.

A curated list of awesome resources for design and implement RESTful API's.

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Awesome API / Design / Overview
Best Practices for Designing a Pragmatic RESTful API [ ]
Ideal REST API Design
StackOverflow best REST API Design
Heroku API Reference
API Terms Glossary 98 over 7 years ago
HTTP API Design by Heroku 13,686 10 months ago
Learn REST: A RESTful Tutorial
RAPIS: A REST API Standard for the 21th century 55 over 8 years ago
IBM Watson REST API Guidelines 137 over 3 years ago
Microsoft REST API Guidelines 22,780 7 days ago
Zalando RESTful API and Event Scheme Guidelines
gov.uk API technical and data standards
How to (and how not to) design REST APIs 538 11 months ago

Awesome API / Design / Status Code
HTTP Status code table in RESTAPITutorial
httpstatuses.com
Status code definition in W3C
HTTP Status Code Guides

Awesome API / Design / Authentication
Auth Boss 2,888 over 7 years ago – Learn about different authentication methodologies on the web
Authentication Cheat Sheet
The Problem With API Authentication in Express
Web Authentication Methods Explained
10 Things You Should Know about Tokens
Cookies vs Tokens
JWT Draft in IETF
JWT.io
Using JSON Web Tokens as API Keys
Why Meteor doesn't use session cookies
Guide on API authentication and authorization

Awesome API / Design / Authorization
The OAuth Bible by Mashape 1,771 over 4 years ago

Awesome API / Caching
Caching best practices & max-age gotchas
Increasing Application Performance with HTTP Cache Headers
Using Cloudflare with your API

Awesome API / Security
Helmet, help secure Express/Connect apps with various HTTP headers
APISecurityBestPractices 1,917 over 5 years ago
Node Security Project
Node.js Security Checklist

Awesome API / Format
HAL – Simple format that gives a consistent and easy way to hyperlink between resources in your API (see: )
Hydra – Vocabulary for Hypermedia-Driven Web APIs (W3C)
JSend – Simple specification that lays down some rules for how JSON responses from web servers should be formatted
JSON API – Standard for building APIs in JSON
JSON-LD – Standard for describing Linked Data and hypermedia relations in JSON (W3C)
OData – Open protocol to allow the creation and consumption of queryable and interoperable RESTful APIs. Quite complex
RAML – Simple and succinct way to describe RESTful API
Schema.org – Collection of schemas describing common data models

Awesome API / Discover / Curated list
Awesome APIs Directory 21,505 3 months ago – A public list of APIs from round the web
public apis 2,129 5 months ago – A collective list of public JSON APIs for use in web development

Awesome API / Discover / Directory
apis.io – API Search service to help discover APIs on the web
ProgrammableWeb

Awesome API / Testing / Querying
Firecamp – Protocol agnostic API testing client which help you test and manage RestAPIs, GraphQL, Websocket and many more
httpie 33,939 20 days ago – Command line HTTP client, far more dev-friendly than
HttpMaster – GUI tool for testing REST APIs and services. Windows OS only
jq 30,562 8 days ago – Command line JSON processor, to use in combination with a command-line HTTP client like cURL
Insomina – A Fancy HTTP REST Client
resty 2,651 almost 2 years ago – Little command line REST client that you can use in pipelines (bash or zsh)
TestMace – A modern powerful crossplatform tool for working with API and creating automated API tests

Awesome API / Testing / Mocking
Beeceptor Beeceptor helps intercepting API calls and mocking them selectively. Creates an endpoint for wrapping original API and routes requests
FakeRest 439 14 days ago – Patch XMLHttpRequest to fake a REST API client-side
JSON Placeholder – Free online REST service that you can use whenever you need some fake data
json-server 73,016 about 2 months ago – Get a full fake REST API with zero coding in less than 30 seconds
Mocky.io – Free online service to create fake HTTP responses
FakeQL – Mainly focused on GraphQL, but can mock RESTful APIs, as well
PIPL API – Free and public API that generates random and fake people's data in JSON
API Mocha Free online service providing fake REST API endpoints, create customizable responses and download rules as a Postman collection

Awesome API / Testing / Response
httpstat.us – A super simple service for generating different HTTP codes
httpbin – httpbin(1): HTTP Request & Response Service
badssl – Testing clients against bad SSL configs

Awesome API / Documentation / Free
docbox 1,142 over 4 years ago
slate 36,061 5 months ago
whiteboard 1,228 almost 4 years ago

Awesome API / Documentation / Services
RapidAPI
Readme.io
GitBook

Awesome API / Logging
PM2 by keymetrics
morgan for expressjs 7,955 5 months ago
Moesif API Analytics . Log and Understand API Traffic

Awesome API / Modeling and SaaS
Alteranatives to API Plug – 9 alternative and related products to api plug
Apiary – Collaborative design, instant API mock, generated documentation, integrated code samples, debugging and automated testing
wrapAPI, Build an API on top of any website
import.io, turn web pages into Data
RAML, RESTful API Modeling Language
Runscope – Automated API Monitoring & Testing
swagger.io

Awesome API / Libraries
async-ratelimiter 320 7 months ago – Rate limit made simple, easy, async, backed in Redis
hashids 4,236 about 1 month ago – A small JavaScript library to generate YouTube-like ids from numbers
typeid-js 298 about 2 months ago – Type-safe, K-sortable, and globally unique identifiers inspired by Stripe IDs

Awesome API / Frameworks
Loopback
Sails.js
FastAPI 77,670 3 days ago
rest-hapi

Awesome API / Gateways / Open Source / Self-hosted
API Umbrella
ApiAxle
KrakenD
Mashape Kong
Tyk
WSO2 API Manager

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