awesome-rest

Roy Fielding's dissertation defining REST

Full guide tackling security, pagination, filtering, versioning, partial answers, CORS, etc

Explained by Martin Fowler, originally presented by Leonard Richardson at the

Discusses the constraints and flexibility that you have with nonpublic APIs, and lessons learned from doing large scale RESTful integration across multiple teams

Clear explanation on what HATEOAS is, and why you should use it

RestApiTutorial.com is dedicated to tracking REST API best practices and making resources available to enable quick reference and self education for the development crafts-person

API-Security-Checklist

Best practices about REST API security

Adidas REST API Guidelines

Adidas REST API Guidelines define standards and guidelines for building REST APIs at adidas

This document provides guidelines to Atlassian developers who are designing REST APIs for Atlassian applications

Cisco REST API Guide

Guidelines for designing REST APIs at Cisco

Guidelines Google follows when designing Cloud APIs and other Google APIs (REST APIs and gRPC APIs)

Haufe API Style Guide

Guidelines created by Haufe-Lexware CTO team

Microsoft REST API Guidelines

The Microsoft REST API Guidelines, as a design principle, encourages application developers to have resources accessible to them via a RESTful HTTP interface

Restful API Guidelines by Zalando

Developing Restful APIs: A Comprehensive Set of Guidelines

Standard for building APIs in JSON

Simple and succinct way to describe RESTful API

JSend

Simple specification that lays down some rules for how JSON responses from web servers should be formatted

Open protocol to allow the creation and consumption of queryable and interoperable RESTful APIs. Quite complex

Simple format that gives a consistent and easy way to hyperlink between resources in your API

Standard for describing Linked Data and hypermedia relations in JSON (W3C)

Vocabulary for Hypermedia-Driven Web APIs (W3C)

Collection of schemas describing common data models

Formerly known as the Swagger Specification, OpenAPI specifcation is the world’s most popular description format for defining Restful APIs

HTTP client and framework for consuming RESTful web services

Buzz

Another lightweight HTTP client

unirest for PHP

Simplified, lightweight HTTP client library

restangular

AngularJS service to handle REST API properly and easily

restful.js

JS client for interacting with server-side RESTful resources

traverson

A Hypermedia API/HATEOAS Client for Node.js and the Browser

raml-client-generator

Generates static client libs for js

restler

REST client library for node.js

unirest for Node.js

Simplified, lightweight HTTP client library

RESTClient

Simple HTTP and REST client for Ruby, inspired by microframework syntax for specifying actions

Spyke

Interact with REST services in an ActiveRecord-like manner

excon

Usable, fast, simple Ruby HTTP 1.1. It works great as a general HTTP(s) client and is particularly well suited to usage in API clients

httparty

Makes HTTP fun again!

Net::HTTP provides a rich library which can be used to build HTTP user-agents

raml-ruby-client-generator

Auto generate API client from a RAML file

gopencils

Small and simple package to easily consume REST APIs

resty

Simple HTTP and REST client for Go inspired by Ruby rest-client

RestSharp

Simple REST and HTTP API client for .NET

Refit

The automatic type-safe REST library for Xamarin and .NET

Fluent, portable, testable REST/HTTP client library

RestEase

Easy-to-use typesafe REST API client library, which is simple and customisable. Heavily inspired by Refit

Tiny.RestClient

Simpliest Fluent REST client for .NET

RestLess

The automatic type-safe-reflectionless REST API client library for .Net Standard

Apizr

Refit-based web api client, but resilient (retry, connectivity, cache, auth, log, priority, etc...)

openapi-generator

OpenAPI Generator allows generation of API client libraries (SDK generation), server stubs, documentation and configuration automatically given an OpenAPI Spec (v2, v3)

postgrest

Serve a fully RESTful API directly from an existing PostgreSQL database

Simple REST-like / CRUD server for any MySQL database

pREST

A fully RESTful API from any existing PostgreSQL database written in Go

node-restify

Framework specifically meant for REST API

Node.js Web framework embedding a command to generate automatically a REST API

mers

Express service exposing Mongoose finders as RESTful API

Build scalable REST API based on your Mongoose entities

flatiron/resourceful

Isomorphic Resource engine for JavaScript

Powerful Node.js framework for creating APIs and easily connecting to backend data sources

is a real-time, micro-service web framework that gives you control over your data via RESTful resources, sockets and flexible plug-ins

Expressa

Express middleware for creating APIs from JSON schemas with a simple admin editor and permissions model

rest-hapi

Generate RESTful API based on mongoose models that supports relational data

Nestjsx/crud

Generate CRUD controllers and services for RESTful API with NestJS and TypeORM

Microrest

Micro-web application providing a REST API on top of any relational database

Negotiation

Content negotiation library

Drest

Library for exposing Doctrine entities as REST resource endpoints

Restler

Lightweight framework to expose PHP methods as RESTful web API

HAL

Hypertext Application Language (HAL) builder library

Apigility

API builder built with Zend Framework 2

phprest

Specialized REST microframework for PHP

Hateoas

PHP library to support implementing representations for HATEOAS REST web services

Fusio

Open source API management platform

Complete guide to build a state-of-the-art REST API with Symfony2 framework

FOSRestBundle

Bundle handling view, routing, error handling, etc. for your REST API

stanlemon/rest-bundle

Build a REST API based on Doctrine entities using conventions over configuration

Glu between several community libraries to ease API development

BazingaHateoasBundle

Integrate the library into a Symfony2 application

Symfony REST Edition

Start with a Symfony2 application with all REST-friendly bundles pre-configured

NgAdminGeneratorBundle

Boostrap ng-admin configuration based on

DunglasApiBundle

Build a REST API which follow Hydra/JSON-LD specification

API Platform

Specialize Symfony edition for the creation of hypermedia REST APIs

NelmioApiDocBundle

Generate documentation for your REST API from annotations

Pode

Pode is an cross-platform, open-source, community-supported web server and REST API framework for PowerShell developers

Powerful and flexible toolkit that makes it easy to build Web APIs

Creating delicious APIs for Django apps

Extension for Flask that adds support for quickly building REST APIs

Flask extension for generating ReSTful APIs for database models defined with SQLAlchemy (or Flask-SQLAlchemy)

sandman

Automated REST APIs for existing database-driven systems

Framework agnostic REST framework based on lessons learned from TastyPie

Eve is an open source Python REST API framework designed for human beings. It allows to effortlessly build and deploy highly customizable, fully featured RESTful Web Services

Makes RAML files executable by generating production-ready APIs from them at runtime

Flask-Potion

Flask-Potion is a powerful Flask extension for building RESTful JSON APIs. It also provides several Clients for easier access to the API

apistar

A smart Web API framework, designed for Python 3

Falcon

Falcon is a bare-metal Python web API framework for building high-performance microservices, app backends, and higher-level frameworks

FastAPI

FastAPI is a modern, fast (high-performance), web framework for building APIs with Python 3.6+ based on standard Python type hints. With automatic API documentation using Swagger UI and ReDoc, based on OpenAPI and JSON Schema

Opinionated micro-framework for creating REST-like APIs in Ruby

RailsGuides: Using Rails for API-only applications

gocrud

: Go library to simplify creating, updating and deleting arbitrary depth structured data — to make building REST services fast and easy

go-json-rest

Thin layer on top of that helps building RESTful APIs easily

sleepy

RESTful micro-framework written in Go

restit

Go micro framework to help writing RESTful API integration test

go-relax

Framework of pluggable components to build RESTful API's

go-rest

Small and evil REST framework for Go

go-restful

A declarative highly readable framework for building restful API's

Goat

Minimalistic REST API server in Go

Resoursea

REST framework for quickly writing resource based services

RestExpress

Netty-based, highly performant, lightweight, container-less, plugin-extensible, framework that is ideal for microservice architectures

Vertx-Web

Vert.x-Web is a set of building blocks for building web applications with Vert.x, a toolkit for building reactive applications on the JVM

Dropwizard

A framework for developing ops-friendly, high-performance, RESTful web services

Chaos

A lightweight framework for writing REST services in Scala

Rest for Haskell

This package allows you to create REST APIs in Haskell. These APIs can be run in different web frameworks. They can also be used to automatically generate documentation as well as client libraries

httpie

Command line HTTP client, far more dev-friendly than

resty

Little command line REST client that you can use in pipelines (bash or zsh)

jq

Command line JSON processor, to use in combination with a command-line HTTP client like cURL

GUI tool for testing REST APIs and services. Windows OS only

Http-console

Command line interface for HTTP that let you

HTTP Prompt

HTTP Prompt is an interactive command-line HTTP client featuring autocomplete and syntax highlighting, built on HTTPie and prompt_toolkit

rest-assured

Java DSL for easy testing of REST services

Insomnia

Cross-platform HTTP and GraphQL Client

Make HTTP requests with a simple web-based HTTP client

Cross-platform simple but powerful IDE for API automation testing

Milkman

Extensible cross-platform request/response workbench, not only for http calls

Schemathesis

Property-based testing tool for web applications built with Open API and GraphQL specifications

Step CI

Open-source framework for API Quality Assurance, which tests REST, GraphQL and gRPC automated and from Open API spec

RestQA

A REST API testing Framework based on BDD / Gherkin to manage microservice local testing

Inspect and debug webhook requests sent by your clients or third-party APIs

HTTP request and response service - a/k/a Swiss Army Knife for HTTP

FakeRest

Patch XMLHttpRequest to fake a REST API client-side

json-server

Serve a REST API from fixture files using quick prototyping

Free online service to create fake HTTP responses

Easy mocking of any system you integrate with via HTTP or HTTPS

Request Baskets

Service to collect HTTP requests and inspect them via RESTful API or web UI

DuckRails

Mock quickly & dynamically API endpoints

Easily create mock APIs locally. No remote deployment, no account required, open source

A mock server generator that's capable to generate RESTful APIs and communicate with the message queues to mimick asynchronous tasks

Declarative language that allows you to annotate and validate JSON documents

Open API for simulating a deck of cards

Public APIS

Explore The Largest API Directory In The Galaxy

Query characters, stories, events about Marvel superheroes

Free online REST service that you can use whenever you need some fake data

Wikipedia for Web APIs, each API has OpenAPI/Swagger description

Public API for Cats Images, Facts and Jokes

Fake REST API powered by Lua

Documentation/querying web interface for REST APIs

Inline Documentation for RESTful web APIs

raml2html

Generates HTML documentation from a RAML file

ReDoc

OpenAPI/Swagger-powered three-panel documentation

Slate

Beautiful and responsive three-panel API documentation using Middleman

Optic

Maintain an accurate API specification without writing OpenAPI/Swagger. Works with any Stack

Kong

Scalable, distributed, and plugin oriented API gateway backed by Nginx

Tyk API Gateway

Lightweight API gateway with analytics logging, written in Go

API Umbrella

API management platform for exposing web services, with web interface and analytics, written in Lua

WSO2 API Management

API management tool with lightweight gateway and API lifecycle management, written in Java

Express Gateway

Microservices API Gateway built on top of ExpressJS (Node.js)

KrakenD

Ultra performant API Gateway with middleware. Written in Go

Fully managed service that helps developers to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale

Nango

Native integrations framework to consume REST APIs (open-source)

Automated API Monitoring & Testing

Automated API Monitoring & Testing

Collaborative design, instant API mock, generated documentation, integrated code samples, debugging and automated testing

Amazon API Gateway is a fully managed service that makes it easy for developers to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale

Apigee is the leading provider of API technology and services for enterprises and developers

Nginx based API gateway to integrate internal and external API services with 3scale's API Management Platform

Continuously test and monitor your APIs after deployments and across environments

API Analytics for Debugging, Monitoring, and Usage Tracking for RESTful and GraphQL

An HTTP inspecting, mocking and proxing service. Gives named endpoints for creating mock API endpoints and simulate responses

react-admin

Add a ReactJS admin GUI to any RESTful API

ng-admin

Add an AngularJS admin GUI to any RESTful API

swagger-codegen

Auto generation of client libraries or server stubs given an OpenAPI specification (formerly known as the Swagger Specification)

Lumber

Generate the admin interface of your application

Low-code API platform. Build, debug and host REST APIs