Top REST APIs repositories on GitHub
REST API servers, generators, and client libraries.
Ranked by stars across 1,490 repositories tagged rest-api. Refreshed daily.
- 1hoppscotch/hoppscotch★ 80,353 · ⑂ 6,118
Open-Source API Development Ecosystem • https://hoppscotch.io • Offline, On-Prem & Cloud • Web, Desktop & CLI • Open-Source Alternative to Postman, Insomnia
- api
- api-client
- api-rest
- pwa
- api-testing
- vue
- 2nocodb/nocodb★ 65,008 · ⑂ 5,058
🔥 🔥 🔥 A Free & Self-hostable Airtable Alternative
- automatic-api
- airtable
- no-code
- no-code-database
- postgresql
- sqlite
- 3usebruno/bruno★ 47,053 · ⑂ 2,895
Opensource IDE For Exploring and Testing API's (lightweight alternative to Postman/Insomnia)
- api-client
- git
- graphql-client
- opensource
- automation
- javascript
- 4gofiber/fiber★ 40,160 · ⑂ 2,033
⚡️ Express inspired web framework written in Go
- go
- golang
- fiber
- web
- fast
- flexible
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- 5Kong/insomnia★ 40,024 · ⑂ 2,367
The open-source, cross-platform API client for GraphQL, REST, WebSockets, SSE and gRPC. With Cloud, Local and Git storage.
- electron-app
- rest-api
- api-client
- curl
- http-client
- graphql
- 6httpie/cli★ 38,534 · ⑂ 4,004
🥧 HTTPie CLI — modern, user-friendly command-line HTTP client for the API era. JSON support, colors, sessions, downloads, plugins & more.
- http
- cli
- client
- terminal
- web
- json
- 7binwiederhier/ntfy★ 34,309 · ⑂ 1,608
Send push notifications to your phone or desktop using PUT/POST
- rest-api
- pubsub
- notifications
- curl
- push-notifications
- ntfy
- 8zeromicro/go-zero★ 33,339 · ⑂ 4,317
A cloud-native Go microservices framework with cli tool for productivity.
- golang
- microservice
- rpc-framework
- web-framework
- rpc
- restful-api
- 9hasura/graphql-engine★ 32,116 · ⑂ 3,035
Blazing fast, instant realtime GraphQL APIs on all your data with fine grained access control, also trigger webhooks on database events.
- graphql
- graphql-server
- postgres
- hasura
- access-control
- automatic-api
- 10swagger-api/swagger-ui★ 29,013 · ⑂ 9,256
Swagger UI is a collection of HTML, JavaScript, and CSS assets that dynamically generate beautiful documentation from a Swagger-compliant API.
- swagger
- swagger-ui
- swagger-api
- rest
- rest-api
- openapi-specification
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- 11OpenAPITools/openapi-generator★ 26,753 · ⑂ 7,678
OpenAPI Generator allows generation of API client libraries (SDK generation), server stubs, documentation and configuration automatically given an OpenAPI Spec (v2, v3)
- rest-api
- rest-client
- sdk
- generator
- restful-api
- api
- 12microsoft/api-guidelines★ 23,333 · ⑂ 2,689
Microsoft REST API Guidelines
- api
- guidelines
- rest-api
- styleguide
- 13go-chi/chi★ 22,851 · ⑂ 1,439
lightweight, idiomatic and composable router for building Go HTTP services
- http
- router
- context
- middleware
- api
- rest-api
- 14parse-community/parse-server★ 21,409 · ⑂ 4,807
Parse Server for Node.js / Express
- parse-server
- parse-platform
- mongodb
- postgres
- graphql
- baas
- 15gofr-dev/gofr★ 20,912 · ⑂ 1,760
An opinionated GoLang framework for accelerated microservice development. Built in support for databases and observability.
- go
- golang
- golang-framework
- microservice-framework
- microservice
- server
- 16Evil0ctal/Douyin_TikTok_Download_API★ 20,189 · ⑂ 2,800
🚀 Self-hosted TikTok & Douyin scraper and no-watermark video downloader — async REST API, MCP server, CLI and web console for posts, profiles, comments and playlists. Self-healing identity pool, PostgreSQL archive, one docker compose up. 抖音、TikTok 数据采集与无水印视频下载 API，自托管，支持 MCP 调用与 Docker 一键部署。
- tiktok
- douyin
- scraper
- crawler
- spider
- web-scraping
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- 17grpc-ecosystem/grpc-gateway★ 20,001 · ⑂ 2,409
gRPC to JSON proxy generator following the gRPC HTTP spec
- go
- grpc
- grpc-gateway
- rest-api
- restful-api
- swagger
- 18swagger-api/swagger-codegen★ 17,788 · ⑂ 5,959
swagger-codegen contains a template-driven engine to generate documentation, API clients and server stubs in different languages by parsing your OpenAPI / Swagger definition.
- swagger
- swagger-codegen
- rest
- rest-api
- openapi-specification
- openapi3
- 19scalar/scalar★ 16,148 · ⑂ 938
Scalar is an open-source API platform: 🌐 Modern REST API Client 📖 Beautiful API References ✨ 1st-Class OpenAPI/Swagger Support
- api
- docs
- openapi
- reference
- swagger
- vue
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