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fastapi/fastapi

FastAPI framework, high performance, easy to learn, fast to code, ready for production

Stack

Python PEP 517 uv

GitHub topics

#api #async #asyncio #fastapi #framework #json

Updated: 2026-07-16
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2018-12-05
History: 28 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 94 open

100,620

stars

Forks: 9,632
Commits: 7,525 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +279 +0.3%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +52 +0.7%

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typicode/json-server

Get a full fake REST API with zero coding in less than 30 seconds (seriously)

Stack

JavaScript npm pnpm

GitHub topics

#api #fake #frontend #json #mock #rest

Updated: 2026-03-23
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2013-11-30
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 717 open

75,651

stars

Forks: 7,267
Commits: 1,042 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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Kong/kong

🦍 The API and AI Gateway

Stack

Lua pytest Cargo Go modules pip

GitHub topics

#ai #ai-gateway #api-gateway #api-management #apis #artificial-intelligence

Updated: 2026-07-01
Lists: 6 list mentions
First commit: 2014-11-17
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 155 open

43,762

stars

Forks: 5,171
Commits: 11,265 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Kong/insomnia

The open-source, cross-platform API client for GraphQL, REST, WebSockets, SSE and gRPC. With Cloud, Local and Git storage.

AI dev

Stack

TypeScript Electron Express React Tailwind CSS npm

GitHub topics

#api #api-client #api-design #curl #electron-app #graphql

Updated: 2026-07-17
Lists: 6 list mentions
First commit: 2016-03-16
History: 14 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 857 open

39,898

stars

Forks: 2,356
Commits: 6,362 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

httpie/cli

🥧 HTTPie CLI — modern, user-friendly command-line HTTP client for the API era. JSON support, colors, sessions, downloads, plugins & more.

Stack

Python pip

GitHub topics

#api #api-client #api-testing #cli #client #curl

Updated: 2024-12-17
Lists: 6 list mentions
First commit: 2012-02-25
History: 56 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 312 open

38,315

stars

Forks: 3,971
Commits: 1,797 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +12 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

slatedocs/slate

Beautiful static documentation for your API

Archived

GitHub topics

#api #api-documentation #slate #static-site-generator

Updated: 2026-02-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2026-02-01
History: 5 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 50 open

36,071

stars

Forks: 364
Commits: 1 commit
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

jqlang/jq

Command-line JSON processor

Stack

C Pipenv

GitHub topics

#jq

Updated: 2026-07-02
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2012-07-18
History: 9 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 458 open

35,080

stars

Forks: 1,806
Commits: 1,929 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

PostgREST/postgrest

REST API for any Postgres database

Stack

Haskell pip

GitHub topics

#api #automatic-api #database #haskell #http #pg

Updated: 2026-07-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-06-17
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 393 open

27,443

stars

Forks: 1,216
Commits: 4,609 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

marmelab/react-admin

A frontend Framework for single-page applications on top of REST/GraphQL APIs, using TypeScript, React and Material Design

AI dev

Stack

TypeScript npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#admin #admin-dashboard #admin-on-rest #admin-ui #frontend-framework #graphql

Updated: 2026-07-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-07-05
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 61 open

26,836

stars

Forks: 5,459
Commits: 24,596 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

OpenAPITools/openapi-generator

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

Stack

Java

GitHub topics

#api #api-client #api-server #generator #hacktoberfest #openapi

Updated: 2026-07-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-07-06
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 5,715 open

26,504

stars

Forks: 7,602
Commits: 22,760 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

Redocly/redoc

📘 OpenAPI/Swagger-generated API Reference Documentation

Stack

TypeScript React npm

GitHub topics

#api-documentation #documentation-generator #documentation-tool #hacktoberfest #openapi #openapi-specification

Updated: 2026-07-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-10-01
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 443 open

25,808

stars

Forks: 2,388
Commits: 2,645 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

microsoft/api-guidelines

Microsoft REST API Guidelines

GitHub topics

#api #guidelines #rest-api #styleguide

Updated: 2026-05-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-07-12
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 176 open

23,298

stars

Forks: 2,694
Commits: 949 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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shieldfy/API-Security-Checklist

Checklist of the most important security countermeasures when designing, testing, and releasing your API

GitHub topics

#api #jwt #oauth2 #security

Updated: 2026-02-10
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2017-07-08
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 2 open

23,266

stars

Forks: 2,657
Commits: 373 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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swagger-api/swagger-codegen

swagger-codegen contains a template-driven engine to generate documentation, API clients and server stubs in different languages by parsing your OpenAPI / Swagger definition.

Stack

Mustache Android Express Spring Boot Bundler Cargo CMake

GitHub topics

#open-source #openapi-specification #openapi3 #rest #rest-api #swagger

Updated: 2026-05-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-07-06
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 3,449 open

17,775

stars

Forks: 5,971
Commits: 11,805 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

interagent/http-api-design

HTTP API design guide extracted from work on the Heroku Platform API

Updated: 2024-01-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-05-07
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 30 open

13,686

stars

Forks: 1,044
Commits: 132 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

go-resty/resty

Simple HTTP, REST, and SSE client library for Go

Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#backoff #circuit-breaker #curl-command #digest-authentication #go #go-library

Updated: 2026-07-09
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2015-08-28
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 9 open

11,725

stars

Forks: 785
Commits: 728 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

NangoHQ/nango

Build product integrations with AI.

AI dev

Stack

TypeScript Express React Tailwind CSS Vite npm

GitHub topics

#access-token #api #api-client #api-integration #api-integrations #integrations

Updated: 2026-07-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-04-09
History: 47 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 116 open

11,141

stars

Forks: 1,210
Commits: 6,990 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +108 +1.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +68 +1.0%

Website GitHub

TykTechnologies/tyk

Tyk Open Source API Gateway written in Go, supporting REST, GraphQL, TCP and gRPC protocols

Stack

Go gRPC Go Go modules npm

GitHub topics

#api #api-gateway #api-management #cloudnative #go #graphql

Updated: 2026-07-15
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-05-07
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 469 open

10,766

stars

Forks: 1,159
Commits: 5,402 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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restify/node-restify

The future of Node.js REST development

Stack

JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#rest-api #restify #server

Updated: 2026-07-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-04-25
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 139 open

10,688

stars

Forks: 979
Commits: 1,729 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

restsharp/RestSharp

Simple REST and HTTP API Client for .NET

AI dev

Stack

C# React .NET SDK pnpm

Updated: 2026-06-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-11-15
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 29 open

9,832

stars

Forks: 2,309
Commits: 2,304 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

falconry/falcon

The no-magic web API and microservices framework for Python developers, with a focus on reliability and performance at scale.

Stack

Python pytest PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#api #api-rest #asgi #http #microservices #python

Updated: 2026-07-13
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-12-06
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 172 open

9,788

stars

Forks: 1,014
Commits: 2,152 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

reactiveui/refit

The automatic type-safe REST library for .NET Core, Xamarin and .NET. Heavily inspired by Square's Retrofit library, Refit turns your REST API into a live interface.

AI dev

Stack

C# ASP.NET Core .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#c-sharp #dotnet #dotnet-core #http #json #xamarin

Updated: 2026-07-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-07-21
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 3 open

9,541

stars

Forks: 787
Commits: 2,040 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

api-platform/api-platform

🕸️ Create REST and GraphQL APIs, scaffold Jamstack webapps, stream changes in real-time.

Stack

PHP Symfony Composer

GitHub topics

#api #api-platform #framework #frankenphp #graphql #graphql-server

Updated: 2026-07-01
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2015-06-12
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 4 open

9,165

stars

Forks: 972
Commits: 841 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

httpie/http-prompt

An interactive command-line HTTP and API testing client built on top of HTTPie featuring autocomplete, syntax highlighting, and more. https://twitter.com/httpie

Stack

Python pytest pip

GitHub topics

#api #api-cli #api-testing #autocomplete #cli #developer-tools

Updated: 2024-05-21
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2016-04-06
History: 9 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 56 open

9,101

stars

Forks: 343
Commits: 391 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

dropwizard/dropwizard

A damn simple library for building production-ready RESTful web services.

Stack

Java Bundler Maven pip

GitHub topics

#dropwizard #hibernate #java #jax-rs #jdbi #jersey-framework

Updated: 2026-07-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-05-10
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 32 open

8,576

stars

Forks: 3,398
Commits: 9,129 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

mgonto/restangular

AngularJS service to handle Rest API Restful Resources properly and easily

Stack

JavaScript npm

Updated: 2020-10-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-04-04
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 254 open

7,794

stars

Forks: 826
Commits: 837 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

rest-assured/rest-assured

Java DSL for easy testing of REST services

AI dev

Stack

Java Maven

GitHub topics

#groovy #http #java #json #kotlin #rest

Updated: 2026-07-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-10-21
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 582 open

7,127

stars

Forks: 1,931
Commits: 2,466 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

luraproject/lura

Ultra performant API Gateway with middlewares. A project hosted at The Linux Foundation

Stack

Go Gin Go modules

GitHub topics

#api-gateway #apis #backend-services #gateway #gateway-api #go

Updated: 2026-07-10
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2016-11-04
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 13 open

6,793

stars

Forks: 585
Commits: 1,132 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

jnunemaker/httparty

:tada: Makes http fun again!

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#http #httparty #ruby

Updated: 2026-03-04
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2008-07-27
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 45 open

5,895

stars

Forks: 966
Commits: 1,351 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

encode/apistar

The Web API toolkit. 🛠

Archived

Stack

Python pytest Starlette pip

GitHub topics

#api #python #rest

Updated: 2022-02-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-03-13
History: 5 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 30 open

5,545

stars

Forks: 407
Commits: 768 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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