API Best Practices

Desktop

• What is an API
• Choosing an HTTP Status Code
• Automated API Development
• Undisturbed REST
• Build APIs You Won't Hate
• Irresistible APIs
• How to build an API
• API University
• Choosing an HTTP Status Code
• Roy Fielding's dissertation on REST
• REST in Practice
• RESTful Web Services
• RESTful Web APIs
• How to Design a REST API
• The Ten Essentials for Good API Documentation

API Client Development Tools

General

• sdks.io
• Unirest - Request client libraries for several languages
• Swagger CodeGen - compliant server.
• AutoRest

Java

• Retrofit - safe HTTP client for Android and Java.

Javascript

• Restangular

.NET

• Refit - safe REST library for .NET Core, Xamarin and .NET
• WebAnchor - safe, testable and flexible access to web resources.

Ruby

• heroics
• blanket
• nestful

API Clients

Desktop

• HttpMaster
• Paw
• Insomnia
• Jsonium
• I'm only Resting
• Jsonium
• I'm only Resting
• HTTPie

Hosted

• Extends Class
• Hurl.it - based HTTP client.

API Debugging and Mocking

Desktop

• Json-Server

Hosted

• httpbin
• MockBin

API Design Guides

Desktop

• PayPal API Style Guide
• Haufe API Style Guide
• Microsoft REST API Guidelines
• Heroku Platform HTTP API Design Guide
• Haufe API Style Guide
• 18F API Standards
• The RESTed NARWHL
• White House Web API Standards
• The RESTed NARWHL
• The RESTed NARWHL
• API Stylebook Design Guidelines
• The RESTed NARWHL
• The RESTed NARWHL

API Documentation

.NET

• Apiary
• Embed curl
• Gelato
• API Docs
• Docula
• ReDoc - generated API Reference Documentation.
• Swagger UI - compliant API.
• Slate
• prmd
• Aglio
• Gelato
• Docbox
• widdershins

`API Frameworks`

Elixir

• Plug

Erlang

• Cowboy
• Gen Microservice
• Mochiweb

Go

• Go-Json-Rest
• gocrud
• sleepy - framework written in Go.
• restit
• go-rest
• go-restful
• Goat
• Resoursea
• go-relax
• Zerver

Haskell

• Scotty
• Spock
• Servant - Level Web DSL.
• Yesod

Java

• Dropwizard - friendly, high-performance, RESTful web services.
• Jersey
• Rest.li - safe bindings and asynchronous, non-blocking IO.
• Rest.li - safe bindings and asynchronous, non-blocking IO.

Javascript

• Express
• Actionhero - transport Node.js API server with integrated cluster capabilities and delayed tasks.
• Feathers - time APIs through Socket.io or Primus.
• Restify
• Deployd
• Seneca

Miscellaneous

• Dream Factory

PHP

• API Platform - LD, Schema.org and Hydra support
• Dingo API
• Fractal
• Yii2 Framework

Postgres

• PostgREST

Python

• Tastypie
• restless
• flask-restful
• Falcon - level, high-performance Python framework for building HTTP APIs, app backends, and higher-level frameworks.
• apistar
• sanic - like Python 3.5+ web server that's written to go fast.
• hug
• Connexion

Ruby

• rails-api
• pliny
• grape - framework for creating REST-like APIs in Ruby.
• ActiveModel::Serializer
• rabl
• jbuilder - style DSL.
• roar

Scala

• Play
• Spray - source toolkit for building REST/HTTP-based integration layers on top of Scala and Akka.
• Colossus
• Finatra - Server and Finagle.
• Skinny Micro - web framework to build servlet applications in Scala.
• Akka HTTP - and client-side HTTP stack on top of akka-actor and akka-stream.
• Swagger Akka HTTP - Akka-Http brings Swagger support for Akka-Http Apis.

API Gateways

Desktop

• AWS API Gateway
• API Umbrella
• Apigee127
• Camel - specific languages, including a Java-based fluent API, Spring or Blueprint XML configuration files, and a Scala DSL.
• HAProxy
• Tyk - source, fast and scalable API gateway, portal and API management platform.
• APIAxle
• APIGrove
• Strongloop
• Vulcand
• Zuul
• fabio - conf load balancing HTTP(S) router for deploying microservices managed by consul by eBay.
• Traefik
• Oathkeeper
• Kong - source management layer for APIs, delivering high performance and reliability.
• APIAxle
• Pushpin
• Fusio

API Monitoring

Desktop

• Runscope
• Moesif
• Ping-API

API Security

Desktop

• API Security checklist
• Ory Hydra

`API Specification Languages`

• RAML
• API Blueprint
• OpenAPI (formerly known as Swagger)

`API Specifications`

• API Commons - agnostic API specifications / Data Models.
• API Commons - agnostic API specifications / Data Models.
• APIS.guru

`API Specification Tools`

• OpenAPI Spec Tooling
• API Studio
• APITransformer
• Prism
• Apimatic
• Mulesoft Anypoint - grade APIs using RAML
• Sandbox
• Restunited
• OpenAPI Spec Tooling
• Dredd
• API Spec Converter
• Swagger Editor
• Swagger Editor

API Testing

Desktop

• Pyresttest
• OWASP Zaproxy

Blogs

Desktop

• Moesif Blog
• Nordic APIs
• Programmable Web
• APIHandyman
• Moesif Blog

JSON Format Standards

Desktop

• Hydra
• Ion
• HAL
• JSONAPI

Public APIs

Advertising

• **Google AdSense**
• **Yahoo Gemini API**
• **Amazon Mobile Ads**
• **Microsoft Advertising Platform - Bing Ads API**
• **Amazon Mobile Ads**
• **Facebook Marketing API**

Analytics

• **Callcounter**
• **Clicky**
• **Google Analytics** - interactions with your online content. | N/A |
• **Zoho Reports API**
• **Localytics**
• **Woopra** - time website analysis tool that targets customer engagement. | N/A |
• **Ticksel**

BarCode

• **EAN-Search** - Search API allows you to lookup products by EAN, UPC or GTIN barcode. | 💸 |
• **QR Code API**
• **Stakdek's QR Generator API**
• **QR Code API**

Big Data and Analytics

• **Google Charts**
• **Keen IO** - to-implement and at your fingertips. | N/A |
• **Mongo DB**
• **Ryft** - time intelligence. | N/A |
• **LinkedData.Center**

Calendar

• **Holiday API**
• **Holiday API**

Captcha

• **Anti-Captcha** - Captcha’s API. | N/A |
• **Google reCAPTCHA**