Awesome API

A curated list of awesome resources for design and implement RESTful APIs.

Design

REST allows us to create services and applications that can be used by any device or client who understands HTTP.

When you are using a REST design you have to provide the HTTP status code that are the more appropriated to respond to the request.

JSON Web Token (JWT) is a compact, URL-safe means of representing claims to be transferred between two parties.

An open protocol to allow secure authorization in a simple and standard method from web, mobile and desktop applications

HAL – Simple format that gives a consistent and easy way to hyperlink between resources in your API (see: HATEOAS).
Hydra – Vocabulary for Hypermedia-Driven Web APIs (W3C).
JSend – Simple specification that lays down some rules for how JSON responses from web servers should be formatted.
JSON API – Standard for building APIs in JSON.
JSON-LD – Standard for describing Linked Data and hypermedia relations in JSON (W3C).
OData – Open protocol to allow the creation and consumption of queryable and interoperable RESTful APIs. Quite complex.
RAML – Simple and succinct way to describe RESTful API.
Schema.org – Collection of schemas describing common data models.

Need a API for your projects?

Firecamp – Protocol agnostic API testing client which help you test and manage RestAPIs, GraphQL, Websocket and many more.
httpie – Command line HTTP client, far more dev-friendly than curl.
HttpMaster – GUI tool for testing REST APIs and services. Windows OS only.
jq – Command line JSON processor, to use in combination with a command-line HTTP client like cURL.
Insomina – A Fancy HTTP REST Client.
resty – Little command line REST client that you can use in pipelines (bash or zsh).
TestMace – A modern powerful crossplatform tool for working with API and creating automated API tests.

Beeceptor - Beeceptor helps intercepting API calls and mocking them selectively. Creates an endpoint for wrapping original API and routes requests.
FakeRest – Patch XMLHttpRequest to fake a REST API client-side.
JSON Placeholder – Free online REST service that you can use whenever you need some fake data.
json-server – Get a full fake REST API with zero coding in less than 30 seconds.
Mocky.io – Free online service to create fake HTTP responses.
FakeQL – Mainly focused on GraphQL, but can mock RESTful APIs, as well.
PIPL API – Free and public API that generates random and fake people's data in JSON
API Mocha - Free online service providing fake REST API endpoints, create customizable responses and download rules as a Postman collection.