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fastapi/fastapi

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

Stack

Python Flask PydanticAI pytest Starlette PDM uv

GitHub topics

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

Updated: 2026-09-14
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2018-12-05
History: 46 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 77 open

102,343

stars

Forks: 9,885
Commits: 7,713 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

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: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 721 open

75,709

stars

Forks: 7,270
Commits: 1,042 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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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: 2026-10-14
Lists: 6 list mentions
First commit: 2014-11-17
History: 19 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 222 open

44,275

stars

Forks: 5,237
Commits: 11,280 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +16 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +4 0.0%

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: 2026-09-15
Lists: 6 list mentions
First commit: 2016-03-16
History: 16 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 876 open

40,015

stars

Forks: 2,365
Commits: 6,496 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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 pytest pip

GitHub topics

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

Updated: 2024-12-17
Lists: 7 list mentions
First commit: 2012-02-25
History: 75 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 338 open

38,533

stars

Forks: 4,004
Commits: 1,797 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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: 7 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 50 open

36,033

stars

Forks: 362
Commits: 1 commit
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

jqlang/jq

Command-line JSON processor

Stack

C Pipenv

GitHub topics

#jq

Updated: 2026-09-27
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2012-07-18
History: 12 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 450 open

35,708

stars

Forks: 2,984
Commits: 1,951 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: 2026-09-08
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-06-17
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 404 open

27,645

stars

Forks: 1,226
Commits: 6,101 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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 Astro Express React Tailwind CSS npm Yarn

GitHub topics

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

Updated: 2026-10-11
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2016-07-05
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 68 open

26,960

stars

Forks: 5,473
Commits: 24,780 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: 2026-09-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-07-06
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 5,755 open

26,735

stars

Forks: 7,670
Commits: 23,124 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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: 2026-09-16
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2015-10-01
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 446 open

25,917

stars

Forks: 2,395
Commits: 2,655 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

microsoft/api-guidelines

Microsoft REST API Guidelines

GitHub topics

#api #guidelines #rest-api #styleguide

Updated: 2026-08-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-07-12
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 176 open

23,332

stars

Forks: 2,689
Commits: 951 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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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: 2026-07-21
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2017-07-08
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 2 open

23,331

stars

Forks: 2,648
Commits: 374 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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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: 2026-08-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-07-06
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 3,444 open

17,786

stars

Forks: 5,962
Commits: 11,807 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 30 open

13,683

stars

Forks: 1,040
Commits: 132 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

NangoHQ/nango

Connect your agents & product to 1,000 APIs.

AI dev

Stack

TypeScript Express React Tailwind CSS Vite npm

GitHub topics

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

Updated: 2026-10-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-04-09
History: 138 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 120 open

12,716

stars

Forks: 1,443
Commits: 7,963 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +119 +0.9%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +68 +0.9%

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: 2026-09-07
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2015-08-28
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 19 open

11,795

stars

Forks: 804
Commits: 743 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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: 2026-09-10
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-05-07
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 509 open

10,820

stars

Forks: 1,167
Commits: 5,446 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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restify/node-restify

The future of Node.js REST development

Stack

JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#rest-api #restify #server

Updated: 2026-09-04
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2011-04-25
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 133 open

10,686

stars

Forks: 975
Commits: 1,744 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: 2026-09-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-11-15
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 37 open

9,826

stars

Forks: 2,299
Commits: 2,311 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

falconry/falcon

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

AI dev

Stack

Python pytest PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

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

Updated: 2026-09-07
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-12-06
History: 10 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 155 open

9,798

stars

Forks: 1,032
Commits: 2,171 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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: 2026-09-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-07-21
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 3 open

9,567

stars

Forks: 784
Commits: 2,089 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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: 2026-09-01
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2015-06-12
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 2 open

9,184

stars

Forks: 972
Commits: 850 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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: 12 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 56 open

9,110

stars

Forks: 345
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: 2026-09-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-05-10
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 50 open

8,577

stars

Forks: 3,400
Commits: 9,170 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 253 open

7,786

stars

Forks: 825
Commits: 837 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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: 2026-07-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-10-21
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 597 open

7,140

stars

Forks: 1,941
Commits: 2,467 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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: 2026-09-02
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2016-11-04
History: 9 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 13 open

6,796

stars

Forks: 582
Commits: 1,134 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

jnunemaker/httparty

:tada: Makes http fun again!

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#http #httparty #ruby

Updated: 2026-09-30
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2008-07-27
History: 9 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 49 open

5,901

stars

Forks: 975
Commits: 1,376 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: 7 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 30 open

5,540

stars

Forks: 405
Commits: 768 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

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