awesome-rest

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

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.

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

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

Continuously test and monitor your APIs after deployments and across environments.

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

Inline Documentation for RESTful web APIs.

Generates HTML documentation from a RAML file.

OpenAPI/Swagger-powered three-panel documentation.

Beautiful and responsive three-panel API documentation using Middleman.

Documentation/querying web interface for REST APIs.

API builder built with Zend Framework 2.

Specialize Symfony edition for the creation of hypermedia REST APIs.

A smart Web API framework, designed for Python 3.

Build scalable REST API based on your Mongoose entities.

Integrate the

A lightweight framework for writing REST services in Scala.

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

Open API for simulating a deck of cards.

Mock quickly & dynamically API endpoints.

Make HTTP requests with a simple web-based HTTP client.

Patch XMLHttpRequest to fake a REST API client-side.

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

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

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

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

Lightweight API gateway with analytics logging, written in Go.

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

Roy Fielding's dissertation defining REST

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.

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

Another lightweight HTTP client.

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.

Small and simple package to easily consume REST APIs.

HTTP client and framework for consuming RESTful web services.

Makes HTTP fun again!

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

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

Vocabulary for Hypermedia-Driven Web APIs (W3C).

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

Standard for building APIs in JSON.

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

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