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Top REST APIs repositories on GitHub

REST API servers, generators, and client libraries.

Ranked by stars across 1,531 repositories tagged rest-api. Refreshed daily.

  1. 1
    hoppscotch/hoppscotch★ 80,746 · ⑂ 6,222

    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
  2. 2
    nocodb/nocodb★ 65,424 · ⑂ 5,121

    🔥 🔥 🔥 A Free & Self-hostable Airtable Alternative

    • automatic-api
    • airtable
    • no-code
    • no-code-database
    • postgresql
    • sqlite
  3. 3
    usebruno/bruno★ 48,135 · ⑂ 3,079

    Opensource IDE For Exploring and Testing API's (lightweight alternative to Postman/Insomnia)

    • api-client
    • git
    • graphql-client
    • opensource
    • automation
    • javascript
  4. 4
    gofiber/fiber★ 40,250 · ⑂ 2,075

    ⚡️ Express inspired web framework written in Go

    • go
    • golang
    • fiber
    • web
    • fast
    • flexible
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  6. 5
    Kong/insomnia★ 40,122 · ⑂ 2,390

    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
  7. 6
    httpie/cli★ 38,695 · ⑂ 4,037

    🥧 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
  8. 7
    binwiederhier/ntfy★ 35,295 · ⑂ 1,696

    Send push notifications to your phone or desktop using PUT/POST

    • rest-api
    • pubsub
    • notifications
    • curl
    • push-notifications
    • ntfy
  9. 8
    zeromicro/go-zero★ 33,423 · ⑂ 4,331

    A cloud-native Go microservices framework with cli tool for productivity.

    • golang
    • microservice
    • rpc-framework
    • web-framework
    • rpc
    • restful-api
  10. 9
    hasura/graphql-engine★ 32,125 · ⑂ 2,973

    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
  11. 10
    swagger-api/swagger-ui★ 29,071 · ⑂ 9,247

    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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    OpenAPITools/openapi-generator★ 26,844 · ⑂ 7,751

    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
  14. 12
    microsoft/api-guidelines★ 23,342 · ⑂ 2,688

    Microsoft REST API Guidelines

    • api
    • guidelines
    • rest-api
    • styleguide
  15. 13
    go-chi/chi★ 23,051 · ⑂ 2,327

    lightweight, idiomatic and composable router for building Go HTTP services

    • http
    • router
    • context
    • middleware
    • api
    • rest-api
  16. 14
    parse-community/parse-server★ 21,393 · ⑂ 4,811

    Parse Server for Node.js / Express

    • parse-server
    • parse-platform
    • mongodb
    • postgres
    • graphql
    • baas
  17. 15
    Evil0ctal/Douyin_TikTok_Download_API★ 21,159 · ⑂ 2,946

    🚀 自托管的抖音、TikTok、B 站数据采集与无水印视频下载 API，支持 AI agent 通过 MCP 调用与离线语音转文字，Docker 一键部署。| Self-hosted TikTok, Douyin & Bilibili scraper and no-watermark video downloader — async REST API, MCP server for AI agents, CLI and web console, plus offline speech-to-text for downloaded videos. Self-healing identity pool, PostgreSQL archive, one docker compose up.

    • tiktok
    • douyin
    • scraper
    • crawler
    • web-scraping
    • tiktok-scraper
  18. 16
    gofr-dev/gofr★ 20,820 · ⑂ 1,792

    An opinionated GoLang framework for accelerated microservice development. Built in support for databases and observability.

    • go
    • golang
    • golang-framework
    • microservice-framework
    • microservice
    • server
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    grpc-ecosystem/grpc-gateway★ 20,009 · ⑂ 2,412

    gRPC to JSON proxy generator following the gRPC HTTP spec

    • go
    • grpc
    • grpc-gateway
    • rest-api
    • restful-api
    • swagger
  21. 18
    swagger-api/swagger-codegen★ 17,795 · ⑂ 5,939

    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
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    scalar/scalar★ 16,371 · ⑂ 965

    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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