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rest-client/rest-client

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

Stack

Ruby Bundler

Updated: 2024-05-19
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2008-03-08
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 140 open

5,213

stars

Forks: 927
Commits: 985 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

emicklei/go-restful

package for building REST-style Web Services using Go

Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#customizable #go #openapi #rest #routing

Updated: 2026-09-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-11-15
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 2 open

5,115

stars

Forks: 678
Commits: 929 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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prest/prest

Instant REST and MCP APIs for PostgreSQL and MySQL 8, on existing or new databases. CRUD, custom SQL routes, auth and ACL without writing a backend. Low-code, ⚡ realtime, high-performance. Native MySQL support since v2.5.

AI dev

Stack

Go Cobra gRPC Go React Tailwind CSS Go modules pnpm

GitHub topics

#api #baas #backend #crud #database #docker

Updated: 2026-10-09
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2016-11-22
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 149 open

4,623

stars

Forks: 325
Commits: 2,053 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

nestjsx/crud

NestJs CRUD for RESTful APIs

Stack

TypeScript NestJS npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#crud #crud-generator #nest #nestjs #restful-api #typeorm

Updated: 2026-09-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-05-18
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 290 open

4,321

stars

Forks: 578
Commits: 563 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

marmelab/ng-admin

Add an AngularJS admin GUI to any RESTful API

Stack

JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#admin #admin-dashboard #angular #ng-admin #rest

Updated: 2020-06-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-05-22
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 111 open

3,898

stars

Forks: 703
Commits: 2,280 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

schemathesis/schemathesis

Catch API bugs before your users do

Stack

Python Django FastAPI Flask pytest PEP 517

GitHub topics

#api #api-testing #cli #fuzzing #graphql #hypothesis

Updated: 2026-09-11
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2019-06-28
History: 10 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 9 open

3,597

stars

Forks: 223
Commits: 5,023 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ant0ine/go-json-rest

A quick and easy way to setup a RESTful JSON API

Stack

Updated: 2021-01-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-02-19
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 45 open

3,485

stars

Forks: 372
Commits: 547 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

zalando/restful-api-guidelines

A model set of guidelines for RESTful APIs and Events, created by Zalando

Stack

CSS

GitHub topics

#api #documentation #guidelines #rest-api #restful #restful-api

Updated: 2026-07-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-11-19
History: 7 history points
License: CC-BY-4.0
Issues: 14 open

3,244

stars

Forks: 448
Commits: 1,769 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

cortex-docs/cortex

Cortex - Generates interactive API documentation, typed SDKs, and MCP servers from OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, GraphQL, gRPC, OpenRPC, and Markdown.

AI dev

Stack

TypeScript Express gRPC Go NestJS Next.js Cargo .NET SDK Go modules

GitHub topics

#api-client #api-documentation #api-reference #asyncapi #code-generation #docs

Updated: 2026-09-25
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2026-06-15
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

3,215

stars

Forks: 158
Commits: 160 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ExpressGateway/express-gateway

A microservices API Gateway built on top of Express.js

Stack

JavaScript Express npm

GitHub topics

#api-gateway #endpoints #express-gateway #express-middleware #expressjs #javascript

Updated: 2024-05-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-07-05
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 78 open

3,030

stars

Forks: 354
Commits: 1,338 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

FriendsOfSymfony/FOSRestBundle

This Bundle provides various tools to rapidly develop RESTful API's with Symfony

Stack

PHP Symfony Composer pip

GitHub topics

#php #rest #rest-api #symfony #symfony-bundle

Updated: 2026-02-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-03-23
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 159 open

2,795

stars

Forks: 688
Commits: 3,429 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

micha/resty

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

Stack

Shell npm

Updated: 2023-02-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-05-17
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 17 open

2,654

stars

Forks: 140
Commits: 393 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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api-platform/core

The server component of API Platform: hypermedia and GraphQL APIs in minutes

AI dev

Stack

PHP Laravel React Symfony Composer npm

GitHub topics

#api #api-platform #graphql #hacktoberfest #hal #hydra-api

Updated: 2026-09-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-01-19
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 278 open

2,573

stars

Forks: 980
Commits: 7,373 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

nelmio/NelmioApiDocBundle

Generates documentation for your REST API from attributes

AI dev

Stack

PHP React React Native Symfony Tailwind CSS Composer pnpm

GitHub topics

#api #api-documentation #bundle #openapi #php #redoc

Updated: 2026-09-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-06-30
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 51 open

2,367

stars

Forks: 907
Commits: 1,300 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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jeffknupp/sandman

Sandman "makes things REST".

Stack

Python Flask pytest pip

Updated: 2021-12-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-07-20
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 37 open

2,288

stars

Forks: 165
Commits: 384 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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NatLabRockies/api-umbrella

Open source API management platform

Stack

Ruby Bundler Cargo Go modules

GitHub topics

#api-gateway #api-management #api-manager #lua #luajit #nginx

Updated: 2026-08-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-01-10
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 256 open

2,197

stars

Forks: 372
Commits: 5,365 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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apioo/fusio

Self-Hosted API Management for Builders

Stack

PHP Composer

GitHub topics

#ai #ai-agents #api #api-gateway #api-management #api-manager

Updated: 2026-10-02
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2013-11-24
History: 10 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 170 open

2,118

stars

Forks: 242
Commits: 1,975 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

danwrong/restler

REST client library for node.js

Stack

JavaScript npm

Updated: 2019-07-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-11-25
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 102 open

1,975

stars

Forks: 380
Commits: 244 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

kriswallsmith/Buzz

PHP's lightweight HTTP client

Stack

PHP Symfony Composer

Updated: 2026-05-15
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2010-01-25
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 9 open

1,917

stars

Forks: 248
Commits: 514 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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stepci/stepci

Automated API Testing and Quality Assurance

Stack

TypeScript Vite Vue npm

GitHub topics

#actions #api-client #api-rest #api-testing #api-testing-framework #automated-testing

Updated: 2024-08-03
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2022-09-19
History: 9 history points
License: MPL-2.0
Issues: 73 open

1,867

stars

Forks: 99
Commits: 171 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

omniti-labs/jsend

JSend is a specification for a simple, no-frills, JSON based format for application-level communication.

GitHub topics

#json

Updated: 2022-01-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-01-12
History: 7 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 9 open

1,724

stars

Forks: 135
Commits: 2 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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iridakos/duckrails

Development tool to mock API endpoints quickly and easily - NOT MAINTAINED

Archived

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#api #api-server #apis #developer-tools #developers #docker

Updated: 2025-12-11
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2016-03-05
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 34 open

1,709

stars

Forks: 105
Commits: 291 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

opticdev/optic

OpenAPI linting, diffing and testing. Optic helps prevent breaking changes, publish accurate documentation and improve the design of your APIs.

Archived

Stack

TypeScript React npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#api-documentation #api-linter #apis #documentation #openapi #openapi3

Updated: 2026-01-08
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2021-10-22
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 29 open

1,533

stars

Forks: 96
Commits: 3,786 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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willdurand/Negotiation

Content Negotiation tools for PHP.

Stack

PHP Symfony Composer

GitHub topics

#content-negotiation #negotiation #php

Updated: 2023-08-03
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2013-01-18
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 11 open

1,419

stars

Forks: 63
Commits: 217 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

cloudhead/http-console

simple, intuitive HTTP REPL — Speak HTTP like a local.

Stack

JavaScript npm

Updated: 2021-06-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-05-31
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 14 open

1,386

stars

Forks: 63
Commits: 111 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

Luracast/Restler

Zero-boilerplate REST API framework for PHP 8+. Auto-generates routes, docs, validation.

Stack

PHP Symfony Composer

GitHub topics

#async #composer #framework #html-format #json-format #jsonp

Updated: 2026-08-22
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2021-08-09
History: 8 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 33 open

1,385

stars

Forks: 314
Commits: 105 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

warmuuh/milkman

An Extensible Request/Response Workbench

AI dev

Stack

Java Maven

GitHub topics

#grpc #hacktoberfest #http #milkman-plugins #rest #testing

Updated: 2026-09-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-03-28
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 15 open

1,337

stars

Forks: 81
Commits: 877 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Kong/unirest-php

Unirest in PHP: Simplified, lightweight HTTP client library.

Stack

PHP Composer

Updated: 2025-04-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-03-13
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 41 open

1,278

stars

Forks: 317
Commits: 266 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

JKHeadley/rest-hapi

🚀 A RESTful API generator for Node.js

Stack

JavaScript Express React npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#api #audit-log #crud #crud-api #crud-generator #documentation

Updated: 2023-03-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-09-09
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 76 open

1,181

stars

Forks: 155
Commits: 1,243 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

excon/excon

Usable, fast, simple HTTP 1.1 for Ruby

Stack

Ruby Sinatra Bundler

GitHub topics

#excon #http #ruby

Updated: 2026-09-28
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2009-10-25
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 19 open

1,174

stars

Forks: 288
Commits: 2,059 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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