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hoppscotch/hoppscotch

Open-Source API Development Ecosystem • https://hoppscotch.io • Offline, On-Prem & Cloud • Web, Desktop & CLI • Open-Source Alternative to Postman, Insomnia

Stack

TypeScript Axum Express NestJS Svelte Cargo Go modules npm

GitHub topics

#api #api-client #api-rest #api-testing #developer-tools #graphql

Updated: 2026-09-30
Lists: 8 list mentions
First commit: 2019-08-21
History: 12 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 846 open

80,558

stars

Forks: 6,138
Commits: 6,201 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

caddyserver/caddy

Fast and extensible multi-platform HTTP/1-2-3 web server with automatic HTTPS

AI dev

Stack

Go Cobra gRPC Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#acme #automatic-https #caddy #caddyfile #go #golang

Updated: 2026-09-17
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2019-03-26
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 286 open

75,845

stars

Forks: 4,970
Commits: 2,689 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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psf/requests

A simple, yet elegant, HTTP library.

Stack

Python pytest pip uv

GitHub topics

#client #cookies #forhumans #http #humans #python

Updated: 2026-09-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-02-13
History: 10 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 243 open

54,479

stars

Forks: 12,039
Commits: 6,495 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

mitmproxy/mitmproxy

An interactive TLS-capable intercepting HTTP proxy for penetration testers and software developers.

AI dev

Stack

Python Flask pytest React Tornado npm uv

GitHub topics

#debugging #http #http2 #man-in-the-middle #mitmproxy #proxy

Updated: 2026-10-05
Lists: 8 list mentions
First commit: 2010-02-16
History: 16 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 491 open

45,401

stars

Forks: 4,774
Commits: 11,248 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

aria2/aria2

aria2 is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source, cross platform download utility operated in command-line. It supports HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, SFTP, BitTorrent and Metalink.

Stack

C++

GitHub topics

#bittorrent #cpp11 #download #ftp #http #metalink

Updated: 2026-06-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2006-02-17
History: 10 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 1,178 open

42,675

stars

Forks: 3,934
Commits: 5,447 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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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

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ehang-io/nps

一款轻量级、高性能、功能强大的内网穿透代理服务器。支持tcp、udp、socks5、http等几乎所有流量转发，可用来访问内网网站、本地支付接口调试、ssh访问、远程桌面，内网dns解析、内网socks5代理等等……，并带有功能强大的web管理端。a lightweight, high-performance, powerful intranet penetration proxy server, with a powerful web management terminal.

Stack

Go gRPC Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#dns #firewall #go #gzip #http #https

Updated: 2024-05-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-11-04
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 526 open

34,224

stars

Forks: 6,072
Commits: 700 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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nginx/nginx

The official NGINX Open Source repository.

Stack

GitHub topics

#content-cache #http #http2 #http3 #https #load-balancer

Updated: 2026-10-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2002-08-06
History: 8 history points
License: BSD-2-Clause
Issues: 426 open

31,896

stars

Forks: 8,313
Commits: 8,756 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

locustio/locust

Write scalable load tests in plain Python 🚗💨

AI dev

Stack

Python Flask pytest React Vite npm pip uv

GitHub topics

#benchmarking #http #load-generator #load-test #load-testing #load-tests

Updated: 2026-10-16
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2010-06-20
History: 21 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 10 open

28,217

stars

Forks: 3,255
Commits: 6,631 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +17 +0.1%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +16 +0.2%

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

GopeedLab/gopeed

A fast, modern download manager for HTTP, BitTorrent, Magnet, and ed2k. Cross-platform, built with Golang and Flutter.

AI dev

Stack

Dart Android Flutter gRPC Go Shelf CMake CocoaPods Dart Pub

GitHub topics

#android #bittorrent #cross-platform #debian #downloader #flutter

Updated: 2026-09-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-04-21
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 312 open

26,383

stars

Forks: 1,720
Commits: 771 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

tsenart/vegeta

HTTP load testing tool and library. It's over 9000!

Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#benchmarking #go #http #load-testing

Updated: 2026-09-24
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2013-08-13
History: 14 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 125 open

25,223

stars

Forks: 1,426
Commits: 741 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +7 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

thingsboard/thingsboard

Open-source IoT Platform - Device management, data collection, processing and visualization.

Stack

Java Angular Express Spring Boot Tailwind CSS Gradle Maven npm

GitHub topics

#big-data #cloud #coap-server #dashboards #http #iiot

Updated: 2026-09-22
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2016-12-01
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 307 open

22,464

stars

Forks: 6,468
Commits: 28,539 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

mountain-loop/yaak

The most intuitive desktop API client. Organize and execute REST, GraphQL, WebSockets, Server Sent Events, and gRPC 🦬

AI dev

Stack

TypeScript Axum React Tailwind CSS Tauri Cargo npm

GitHub topics

#bruno-alternative #graphql #grpc #http #http-client #insomnia-alternative

Updated: 2026-09-15
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2023-02-16
History: 9 history points
License: MIT
Issues: Disabled

19,215

stars

Forks: 812
Commits: 2,752 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Orange-OpenSource/hurl

Hurl, run and test HTTP requests with plain text.

Stack

Rust Flask Cargo npm pip

GitHub topics

#api-testing #cli #curl #http #http-client #integration-testing

Updated: 2026-09-12
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2020-08-27
History: 6 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 203 open

19,195

stars

Forks: 743
Commits: 4,549 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

uNetworking/uWebSockets

Simple, secure & standards compliant web server for the most demanding of applications

Stack

C++

GitHub topics

#commercial #cross-platform #http #proxy-protocol #pubsub #router

Updated: 2026-10-05
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2018-05-06
History: 1 history point
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 54 open

18,999

stars

Forks: 1,869
Commits: 1,237 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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ZLMediaKit/ZLMediaKit

WebRTC/RTSP/RTMP/HTTP/HLS/HTTP-FLV/WebSocket-FLV/HTTP-TS/HTTP-fMP4/WebSocket-TS/WebSocket-fMP4/GB28181/SRT/STUN/TURN server and client framework based on C++11

AI dev

Stack

C++ Android CMake Go modules Gradle

GitHub topics

#flv #gb28181 #hls #http #http-flv #http-fmp4

Updated: 2026-09-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-04-01
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 141 open

17,550

stars

Forks: 4,132
Commits: 4,647 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

aio-libs/aiohttp

Asynchronous HTTP client/server framework for asyncio and Python

AI dev

Stack

Python pytest PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#aiohttp #async #asyncio #hacktoberfest #http #http-client

Updated: 2026-09-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-10-01
History: 10 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 215 open

16,543

stars

Forks: 2,397
Commits: 14,123 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

encode/httpx

A next generation HTTP client for Python. 🦋

Stack

Python pytest PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#asyncio #http #python #trio

Updated: 2026-03-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-04-04
History: 10 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: Disabled

15,461

stars

Forks: 1,280
Commits: 1,523 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

hapijs/hapi

The Simple, Secure Framework Developers Trust

Stack

JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#application #framework #hapi #http #nodejs

Updated: 2026-09-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-08-06
History: 1 history point
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 56 open

14,785

stars

Forks: 1,354
Commits: 5,804 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

trimstray/nginx-admins-handbook

How to improve NGINX performance, security, and other important things.

Stack

Shell

GitHub topics

#best-practices #cheatsheet #hacks #handbook #http #https

Updated: 2024-11-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-01-27
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 6 open

14,309

stars

Forks: 1,137
Commits: 1,338 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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http-party/http-server

A simple, zero-configuration, command-line http server

Stack

JavaScript Express npm

GitHub topics

#command-line #hacktoberfest #hosting #http #http-server #server

Updated: 2026-04-15
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2011-06-15
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 110 open

14,235

stars

Forks: 1,558
Commits: 684 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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rathole-org/rathole

A lightweight and high-performance reverse proxy for NAT traversal, written in Rust. An alternative to frp and ngrok.

Stack

Rust Axum Cargo

GitHub topics

#firewall #frp #http #nat #network #ngrok

Updated: 2026-08-23
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2021-12-11
History: 6 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 98 open

14,224

stars

Forks: 828
Commits: 234 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

nock/nock

HTTP server mocking and expectations library for Node.js

Stack

JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#http #javascript #mock #nock #node

Updated: 2026-10-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-09-22
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 108 open

13,127

stars

Forks: 774
Commits: 2,234 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

graphile/crystal

🔮 Graphile's Crystal Monorepo; home to Grafast, PostGraphile, pg-introspection, pg-sql2 and much more!

AI dev

Stack

TypeScript Express Fastify React npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#api #automatic-api #express #graphile #graphql #graphql-api

Updated: 2026-10-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-04-14
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 168 open

12,932

stars

Forks: 629
Commits: 16,653 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

Kludex/starlette

The little ASGI framework that shines. 🌟

AI dev

Stack

Python pytest Starlette uv

GitHub topics

#asgi #async #http #python #websockets

Updated: 2026-10-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-06-25
History: 10 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 56 open

12,654

stars

Forks: 1,363
Commits: 1,764 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Kludex/uvicorn

An ASGI web server, for Python. 🦄

Stack

Python pytest uv

GitHub topics

#asgi #asyncio #http #http-server #python

Updated: 2026-10-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-05-30
History: 10 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 111 open

11,007

stars

Forks: 1,057
Commits: 1,572 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

asciimoo/wuzz

Interactive cli tool for HTTP inspection

Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#cli #curl #go #golang #http #http-inspection

Updated: 2026-08-04
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2017-01-30
History: 5 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 42 open

10,737

stars

Forks: 411
Commits: 251 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

benoitc/gunicorn

gunicorn 'Green Unicorn' is a WSGI HTTP Server for UNIX, fast clients and sleepy applications.

Stack

Python Django FastAPI pytest Starlette PEP 517 pip uv

GitHub topics

#http #http-server #python #wsgi #wsgi-server

Updated: 2026-09-06
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2009-11-30
History: 11 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 126 open

10,699

stars

Forks: 1,864
Commits: 3,783 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

vercel/serve

Static file serving and directory listing

Stack

TypeScript Vite npm pnpm

GitHub topics

#cli #command #http #node

Updated: 2026-06-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-04-27
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 152 open

9,906

stars

Forks: 709
Commits: 782 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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