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API

Linear API is interestingly made. Stripe has nice API docs too. Currently looking into Apiker for releasing my APIs.

Other

• OpenAI API

• Google Drive

• GitHub

• GitHub Go - Client library for accessing GitHub GraphQL API.

• GitHub Swift

• GitHub JS - Extendable client for GitHub's REST & GraphQL APIs.

• GitHub JS 2 - GitHub API HTTP client with cache support to get the most of your rate limit.

• GitHub JS 3 - All-batteries-included GitHub SDK for Browsers, Node.js, and Deno.

• GitHub JS REST

• GitHub Rust

• GitHub Rust 2

• GitHub Swift - Swift framework for the GitHub API.

• GitHub Swift 2

• GitHub Swift 3 - Swift API Client for GitHub and GitHub Enterprise.

• GitHub Python

• GitHub Julia

• GitHub OCaml

• GitHub Haskell

• GitHub Gists Python - Advanced python wrapper for Github Gist API.

• Hacker News - Documentation and Samples for the Official HN API.

• Dropbox - Command line client for Dropbox built using the Go SDK.

• Dropbox JS - Dropbox JavaScript SDK.

• Twitter TS

• Twitter Go

• Twitter Go 2 - Go Twitter REST and Streaming API v1.1

• Twitter Go 3

• Twitter Go 4

• Twitter Ruby - Twitter OAuth 2.0 Client Library in Ruby.

• Twitter Swift

• Twitter Python - Actively maintained, pure Python wrapper for the Twitter API. Supports both normal and streaming Twitter APIs.

• Twitter Python 2

• Twitter Python 3

• Twitter Python 4

• Twitter Rust

• Twitter R

• Twitter Node - Strongly typed, full-featured, light, versatile yet powerful Twitter API v1.1 and v2 client for Node.js.

• Twitter Node 2 - Twitter API Client for node (REST & Streaming API).

• Twitter Node 3

• Twitter Node 4 - Twitter API v2 client for TypeScript auto-generated from official OpenAPI specification.

• Twitter Lite JS - Tiny, full-featured, flexible client / server library for the Twitter API.

• Twitter Haskell

• Twitter API proxy server using gRPC

• Twitter profile dumper (downloader) with authorization swapping

• Twitter Post Fetcher - Fetch your twitter posts without using the new Twitter.

• arxiv-graphql - GraphQL API for arXiv: e-print service by Cornell University.

• Sheetfu - Python library to interact with Google Sheets V4 API.

• Cloudflare - Rust library for the Cloudflare v4 API.

• GIPHY SDKs

• OpenAI JS - Tiny client module for the openAI API.

• Notion JS - Unofficial Node.js API client for Notion.

• Notion TS - Unofficial Notion.so Wrapper.

• Notion Go

• Notion Python - Unofficial Python API client for Notion.so.

• VK Go

• VK Python

• VK Kotlin

• VK API JSON Schema

• Google Cloud - Google Cloud Client Library for Python.

• Reddit Python

• Reddit Go

• Reddit Go 2

• Reddit Go 3

• Reddit JS - Simple Reddit API client in JS.

• Goodreads API Go

• SendGrid Go

• Fastly Go - CLI for interacting with the Fastly platform.

• Slack Go 2

• Slack Go 3 - Slack client for go.

• Slash Go 4 - Router for Slack's slash commands.

• Slack Go 5 - Slack Bot Framework in Go.

• Stripe Go

• Stripe Rust - Asynchronous Rust API bindings for the Stripe HTTP API.

• Star Wars API - Nice for testing.

• Google Spreadsheet NodeJS - Most popular Google Sheets API wrapper for JavaScript.

• Airtable JS

• Airtable Go

• Airtable Go 2

• WikipediaKit - API Client Framework for Swift.

• Zendesk Go - Zendesk API client library for Go.

• Cantine - Cooking recipe search JSON API with over a million recipes.

• Binding and CLI generator for all google APIs

• CartQL - GraphQL Shopping Cart API.

• Binance Go

• Stream - Enterprise Grade Feed & Chat APIs.

• Telegraph API - Minimalist publishing tool that allows you to create richly formatted posts and push them to the Web in just a click.

• Intercom Node - Node.js bindings for the Intercom API.

• Pocket Export - Export/access your Pocket data, including highlights.

• Pocket Python

• AssemblyAI - Top Rated API for Speech-to-Text.

• Apple News API Client

• Digital Ocean Go - Go client library for accessing the DigitalOcean V2 API.

• Digital Ocean Python

• WhatsApp TS

• WhatsApp Go - WhatsApp Web API.

• Facebook Graph API SDK Go

• Trello Go - Trello API wrapper for Go.

• Gumroad Node

• LinkedIn Node

• Gophercloud Go - OpenStack Go SDK.

• AWS SDK Rust

• Spotify TS

• Spotify TS 2

• Spotify Go

• Spotify GraphQL - GraphQL schema for Spotify WebAPI.

• Spotify Python

• Spotify Rust - Open Source Spotify client library.

• Spotify Rust 2

• Spotify iOS SDK

• Spotify Swift

• Apple Music Go

• Gfycat Python

• TikTok Python - Unofficial API.

• Apple Music Go

• Interactive Brokers Go

• Google News Python

• TensorFlow Rust - Rust language bindings for TensorFlow.

• libgit2 Rust - libgit2 bindings for Rust.

• LLVM Rust - Friendly LLVM library for Rust.

• Instagram Python - Fastest and powerful Python library for Instagram Private API.

• SwiftyInsta - Instagram Private API Swift.

• Instagram Private API in Python

• Instagram Scraper Python - Scrapes medias, likes, followers, tags and all metadata.

• Swiftagram - Modern Swift wrapper for Instagram Private API.

• Instagram Private Web API client

• InstaLooter - API-less Instagram pictures and videos downloader.

• Fastly Go

• Linear GraphQL API

• SpaceX API - Open Source REST API for rocket, core, capsule, pad, and launch data.

• GitLab Node - GitLab API NodeJS library with full support of all the Gitlab API services.

• GitLab Go

• GitLab Go 2

• N26 Go

• GCP Haskell - Comprehensive Google Services SDK for Haskell.

• Robintrack - Scrapes the Robinhood API to retrieve + store popularity and price data. (Web)

• OpenAI API (HN)

• Tesla Swift

• Wayback Machine Python

• Medium API

• Backblaze Go

• Paddle Go

• PyTrends - Unofficial API for Google Trends.

• Azure Python

• Typeform JS SDK

• Twitch GraphQL

• Finage - Stock,Currency and Crypto Real-Time API.

• Vonage API - Everything you need to build connected applications. (Code)

• Bing Web Search API

• TalkJS - Chat API and Javascript SDK for websites and apps.

• Exchangerate.host - Free API service for crypto and foreign exchange rates. (HN)

• Rick and Morty API - RESTful and GraphQL API based on the television show Rick and Morty.

• Dog API

• Square Node (Release)

Notes

• API should be only sending values it actually has or at least not null but same type values: e.g. items array should never turn null even if empty but rather an empty array.

• APIs should be built around the needs of the consumers, not the providers

Links

• Transposit - API composition platform.

• Postwoman - API request builder - A free, fast, and beautiful alternative to Postman.

• Build an external api with auth using Traefik and Go

• Public APIs - Collective list of free APIs for use in software and web development. (HN)

• Kong - Connect all your microservices and APIs with the industry’s most performant, scalable and flexible API platform.

• Amazon API Gateway Serverless Developer Portal - Application that you use for developer engagement by making your API Gateway APIs available to your customers through self-service discovery of those APIs.

• Stone - Write your APIs in stone.

• OpenAPI Specification - Standard for describing modern APIs. (Code)

• OpenAPI Compliance Proxy - Validates requests and responses against an OpenAPI document.

• Stoplight Studio - Design APIs 10x faster with our free OpenAPI editor. Prototype and share your API within minutes. (Code)

• WorkOS - APIs for enterprise features like SSO/SAML. (HN)

• NoCodeAPI - Quickly set-up third party application APIs.

• Pipedream - Develop any workflow, based on any trigger. Workflows are code, which you can run for free. (Code)

• An Introduction to APIs

• Paragon - Visually create production-ready API workflows. (HN)

• Saasify - Handles all of the SaaS boilerplate, including user accounts, subscription billing, developer docs, and a polished marketing site.

• Hoverfly - Lightweight, open source API simulation tool. Using Hoverfly, you can create realistic simulations of the APIs your application depends on.

• MetaMate - Open-source semantic service bus and provides you an api for everything. (Web)

• Unofficial APIs list

• OpenAutoComplete - Shell-agnostic, declarative CLI autocomplete specification.

• Best practices for building SDKs for APIs (2019)

• Ask HN: Best practices (and examples) for designing client libraries for APIs? (2020)

• apigentools - Generate API clients from OpenAPI v3 specification for multiple languages using openapi-generator.

• OpenAPI Generator - Generate clients, servers, and documentation from OpenAPI documents. (Code)

• Lessons learned designing APIs (2019)

• Ask HN: Best Way to Mock APIs in 2020?

• Paperclip - OpenAPI tooling for Rust.

• Standard Library - Design with APIs, prototype, and release integrations faster with Autocode.

• APIs are about Policy (2019)

• APIs with GitHub - Simple tool to make JSON APIs for quick use for your basic projects. Your APIs are hosted on GitHub as JSON file that's simple.

• Akita Software - Helping people get visibility into their software through their APIs.

• A personal API (2019)

• The API Economy

• Mock Service Worker (MSW) - Seamless REST/GraphQL API mocking library for browser and Node. (Web) (Examples) (GitHub)

• Rusty's API Design Manifesto

• Top 10 Social Media APIs for Developers (2020)

• Slate - Beautiful static documentation for your API. (HN)

• The land before modern APIs (2020)

• How should we build the APIs of tomorrow? (2020) (HN)

• Top Tools to Make Debugging APIs Easier (2020)

• Bearer.sh - Monitor, track performance, detect anomalies, and fix issues on your critical API usage.

• APIs You Won't Hate - Community that cares about API design and development.

• Ask HN: Suggestions for books about API design? (2020)

• How To Design A Good API and Why it Matters (2007)

• Regarding Semantic Versioning (2020) (Lobsters)

• Swagger UI - Collection of HTML, JavaScript, and CSS assets that dynamically generate beautiful documentation from a Swagger-compliant API.

• Swagger Codegen - Contains a template-driven engine to generate documentation, API clients and server stubs in different languages by parsing your OpenAPI / Swagger definition.

• Catch Breaking Changes by Diffing API Traffic (2020) (HN)

• Cloudflare API Shield (2020)

• Abstract API - Suite of fast, accurate, & robust APIs.

• Stargate - Open source API framework for data. Data gateway deployed between client applications and a database. (Web) (Hello GraphQL; meet Cassandra)

• API pagination design (2020) (Lobsters)

• Insomnia - API Design Platform and REST Client. (Code)

• Apiary - Platform for API Design, Development & Documentation. (How Apiary Works)

• Customizing API Documentation with Next.JS, Tailwind CSS, and ReadMe (2020)

• OpenAPI 3 Generator - Faster way to prototype your APIs using OpenAPI 3 and Swagger UI. (HN)

• Hoppscotch - Free, fast and beautiful API request builder. (Code)

• Optic - APIs that Document and Test Themselves. (Code)

• Pizzly - Simplest, fastest way to integrate your app with OAuth APIs. (Web)

• Swell - API development tool that enables developers to test endpoints served over streaming technologies including Server-Sent Events (SSE), WebSockets, HTTP2, GraphQL and gRPC. (Web)

• API design is stuck in the past (2020) (HN)

• APISprout - Lightweight, blazing fast, cross-platform OpenAPI 3 mock server with validation.

• List of Great Product API Docs (2020)

• Bitmasks for nicer APIs (2020)

• Apache APISIX - Dynamic, real-time, high-performance API gateway, based on the Nginx library and etcd. (Web)

• APIsFinder - Find Over 680 public and open REST APIs for developers. (Code)

• APIs All the Way Down (2020)

• What's good about offset pagination; designing parallel cursor-based web APIs (HN)

• The API Book (Code)

• API-Less Architecture

• Mocker API - Creates mocks for REST APIs. It will be helpful when you try to test your application without the actual REST API server.

• Building DigitalOcean's API Gateway (2021) (HN)

• AWS Smithy - Language for defining services and SDKs. (Code) (HN)

• Smithy Rust - Smithy code generators for Rust.

• DevDocs - API Documentation Search. (Code)

• Metapine - Discover new & interesting APIs.

• Hydra: Hypermedia-Driven Web APIs

• A Theory of Robust API Knowledge (2021)

• Public APIs - Directory of Free Public & Open Rest APIs.

• swagger-typescript-api - TypeScript API generator via Swagger scheme.

• Pusher - Bi-directional hosted APIs that are flexible, scalable and easy to use. (GitHub)

• Mockoon - Create mock APIs in seconds. (Code)

• ROAPI - Create full-fledged APIs for static datasets without writing a single line of code. (Docs)

• Autocode - Instant endpoints for anything.

• HN: Google’s copying of the Java SE API was fair use (2021)

• Using Postman and APIMatic to Document APIs and Generate Client Libraries (2021)

• Read from databases, write to APIs (2021) (Lobsters)

• Stoplight Elements - Beautiful API documentation powered by OpenAPI and Markdown. (Code)

• API Versioning Has No "Right Way" (2017)

• API Specification Toolbox - Project to try and define the world of API specifications. (Code)

• API Blueprint - Powerful high-level API description language for web APIs. (Code)

• 4 essential characteristics of successful APIs (2021)

• The Architecture of Uber's API gateway (2021)

• Small things that make APIs a little bit better for its users (2021) (Lobsters)

• AIP Improvement Proposals - Focused design documents for flexible API development. How Google does APIs. (Code)

• The state of Stripe API library codegen (2021)

• API Federation: growing scalable API landscapes (2021)

• Zanzibar - Build system & configuration system to generate versioned API gateways.

• API Design Cheat Sheet

• M3O - Open source AWS alternative. Programmable building blocks for everyday use. (HN) (Code) (HN)

• Notes on streaming large API responses (HN)

• How to Cancel Pending API Requests to Show Correct Data (2021)

• Give me /events, not webhooks (2021) (Lobsters) (HN)

• Cats - Generate tests at runtime based on OpenApi specs.

• Portman - Port OpenAPI Spec to Postman Collection, with contract & variation tests included.

• RapidAPI - Next Generation API Platform. (Twitter) (How it started)

• Portman CLI 1.0 - Better API testing (2021)

• Test and Deploy your APIs Using These Open Source Tools (2021)

• How to Hack APIs in 2021 by Hakluke and Farah Hawa (2021) (HN)

• JSON:API - Specification for building APIs in JSON. (Code)

• API Tokens: A Tedious Survey (HN)

• Adding Optimistic Locking to an API (2021) (HN)

• Data-first API design (2021)

• Schemathesis - Modern API testing tool for web applications built with Open API and GraphQL specifications.

• So you want to mock an API (2021)

• API Star - Toolkit for working with OpenAPI or Swagger schemas. (Docs)

• RapiDoc - Custom-Element for OpenAPI Spec. Create beautiful, customizable, interactive API documentation from OpenAPI Specification. (Code)

• Appwrite - Open-Source End-to-End Backend Server. (Code) (Demos for Functions) (Getting Started With Appwrite's Apple SDK)

• gnostic - Go command line tool which converts JSON and YAML OpenAPI descriptions to and from equivalent Protocol Buffer representations.

• Postman - API platform for building and using APIs. (GitHub) (Tweet)

• Blobr - Get your branded API portal in minutes.

• orval - Generate client with appropriate type-signatures (TypeScript) from any valid OpenAPI v3 or Swagger v2 specification, either in YAML or JSON formats. (Code)

• Exploring Programmers' API Learning Processes (2021)

• Opinionated OpenAPI v3 code generator for Go

• From feature request to API design (2019) - Describe the process of creating an API based on specific users' needs.

• APIs.guru - Directory of API definitions in OpenAPI (or Swagger) 2.0 and 3.x formats. (Code) (GitHub)

• Building the Brex API (2021) (HN)

• Anatomy of a Great API Library (2021)

• Making retries safe with idempotent APIs (Tweet)

• Backpressure And The Replicator (2021) (Lobsters)

• The Little Manual of API Design (2008)

• Remote Execution API - API that, at its most general, allows clients to request execution of binaries on a remote system.

• SwagGen - OpenAPI/Swagger 3.0 Parser and Swift code generator.

• 6 API lessons learned over the last 15 years by AWS (2021)

• Don’t Build A General Purpose API To Power Your Own Front End (2021)

• Docusaurus OpenAPI - OpenAPI plugin for generating API reference docs in Docusaurus v2.

• Kin OpenAPI - OpenAPI 3.0 implementation for Go (parsing, converting, validation, and more).

• Varlink - APIs – plain-text, type-safe, discoverable, self-documenting, remotable. (GitHub) (Go Code)

• Continuous API management

• The Light and Dark Side of the API Economy (2020)

• Prism - Open-Source HTTP Mock and Proxy Server. Turn any OpenAPI2/3 and Postman Collection file into an API server with mocking, transformations and validations. (Code)

• Telefunc - Remote Functions. Instead of API. (Code)

• OpenAPI Generator CLI - Allows generation of API client libraries (SDK generation), server stubs, documentation and configuration automatically given an OpenAPI Spec.

• OpenAPI CLI toolset - OpenAPI CLI toolbox with rich validation and bundling features.

• Redocly - API docs you can be proud of. (GitHub)

• Awesome API Security

• Documenting APIs (HN)

• OpenAPI boilerplate - Multi-file boilerplate for Open API Specification.

• dummy - Run mock server based on API contract with one command. Written in Go.

• Hook Slinger - Generic service to send, retry, and manage webhooks.

• API Guideline: Clarity at the point of use