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Top Web Development tools for api development — made for website owners, freelancers, startups and web developers. Every project below is a real, public GitHub repository, ranked by the stars the community gave it.

50 repositories · ranked by GitHub stars by default

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public-apis

by public-apis

A collective list of free APIs

⭐ 494.6k🍴 55.2k 💻 PythonCoding Knowledge Recommended
Updated 01 Nov 2026 Explore Tool
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fastapi

by fastapi

FastAPI framework, high performance, easy to learn, fast to code, ready for production

⭐ 104.5k🍴 10.2k 💻 PythonCoding Knowledge Recommended
Updated 01 Nov 2026 Explore Tool
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neovim

by neovim

Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability

⭐ 103.3k🍴 7.4k 💻 Vim ScriptCoding Knowledge Recommended
Updated 01 Nov 2026 Explore Tool
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hoppscotch

by hoppscotch

Open-Source API Development Ecosystem • https://hoppscotch.io • Offline, On-Prem & Cloud • Web, Desktop & CLI • Open-Source Alternative to Postman, Insomnia

⭐ 80.7k🍴 6.2k 💻 TypeScriptCoding Knowledge Recommended
Updated 31 Oct 2026 Explore Tool
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imgui

by ocornut

Dear ImGui: Bloat-free Graphical User interface for C++ with minimal dependencies

⭐ 76.9k🍴 12.1k 💻 C++Coding Knowledge Recommended
Updated 30 Oct 2026 Explore Tool
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json-server

by typicode

Get a full fake REST API with zero coding in less than 30 seconds (seriously)

⭐ 75.7k🍴 7.3k 💻 JavaScriptCoding Knowledge Recommended
Updated 23 Mar 2026 Explore Tool
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strapi

by strapi

🚀 Strapi is the leading open-source headless CMS. It’s 100% JavaScript/TypeScript, fully customizable, and developer-first.

⭐ 73.4k🍴 10k 💻 TypeScriptNo Coding Required
Updated 30 Oct 2026 Explore Tool
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nocodb

by nocodb

🔥 🔥 🔥 A Free & Self-hostable Airtable Alternative

⭐ 65.4k🍴 5.1k 💻 TypeScriptNo Coding Required
Updated 01 Nov 2026 Explore Tool
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meilisearch

by meilisearch

A lightning-fast search engine API bringing AI-powered hybrid search to your sites and applications.

⭐ 59.8k🍴 2.8k 💻 RustCoding Knowledge Recommended
Updated 05 Nov 2026 Explore Tool
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LocalAI

by mudler

LocalAI is the open-source AI engine. Run any model - LLMs, vision, voice, image, video - on any hardware. No GPU required.

⭐ 50.2k🍴 4.6k 💻 GoCoding Knowledge Recommended
Updated 08 Nov 2026 Explore Tool
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bruno

by usebruno

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

⭐ 48k🍴 3.1k 💻 JavaScriptCoding Knowledge Recommended
Updated 01 Nov 2026 Explore Tool
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GPT_API_free

by chatanywhere

免费大模型API,支持免费调用GPT、DeepSeek等主流模型,免费额度10000点,每日刷新!另付费价格最低官方1-2折!

⭐ 45.2k🍴 2.8k 💻 —Basic Technical Setup
Updated 30 Oct 2026 Explore Tool
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ccxt

by ccxt

A unified trading API with more than 100 crypto exchanges and prediction markets in JavaScript / TypeScript / Python / C# / PHP / Go / Java / Rust

⭐ 44.7k🍴 8.9k 💻 PythonCoding Knowledge Recommended
Updated 30 Oct 2026 Explore Tool
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trpc

by trpc

🧙‍♀️ Move Fast and Break Nothing. End-to-end typesafe APIs made easy.

⭐ 40.8k🍴 1.7k 💻 TypeScriptCoding Knowledge Recommended
Updated 01 Nov 2026 Explore Tool
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fiber

by gofiber

⚡️ Express inspired web framework written in Go

⭐ 40.2k🍴 2.1k 💻 GoCoding Knowledge Recommended
Updated 01 Nov 2026 Explore Tool
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insomnia

by Kong

The open-source, cross-platform API client for GraphQL, REST, WebSockets, SSE and gRPC. With Cloud, Local and Git storage.

⭐ 40.1k🍴 2.4k 💻 TypeScriptCoding Knowledge Recommended
Updated 31 Oct 2026 Explore Tool
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quivr

by The-Vibe-Company

An open-source engine that turns continuous content streams into search and monitoring. Durable ingestion, hybrid search, alerts, and plugins for formats, models and business…

⭐ 39.6k🍴 3.7k 💻 GoAdvanced Developer Tool
Updated 02 Nov 2026 Explore Tool
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directus

by directus

The flexible backend for all your projects 🐰 Turn your DB into a headless CMS, admin panels, or apps with a custom UI, instant APIs, auth & more.

⭐ 38.8k🍴 5k 💻 TypeScriptNo Coding Required
Updated 30 Oct 2026 Explore Tool
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cli

by httpie

🥧 HTTPie CLI — modern, user-friendly command-line HTTP client for the API era. JSON support, colors, sessions, downloads, plugins & more.

⭐ 38.7k🍴 4k 💻 PythonCoding Knowledge Recommended
Updated 17 Dec 2024 Explore Tool
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one-api

by songquanpeng

LLM API 管理 & 分发系统,支持 OpenAI、Azure、Anthropic Claude、Google Gemini、DeepSeek、字节豆包、ChatGLM、文心一言、讯飞星火、通义千问、360 智脑、腾讯混元等主流模型,统一 API 适配,可用于 key 管理与二次分发。单可执行文件,提供 Docker 镜像,一键部署,开箱即用。LLM…

⭐ 37.3k🍴 6.9k 💻 JavaScriptCoding Knowledge Recommended
Updated 09 Jan 2026 Explore Tool
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ntfy

by binwiederhier

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

⭐ 35.2k🍴 1.7k 💻 GoCoding Knowledge Recommended
Updated 01 Nov 2026 Explore Tool
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go-zero

by zeromicro

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

⭐ 33.4k🍴 4.3k 💻 GoCoding Knowledge Recommended
Updated 01 Nov 2026 Explore Tool
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graphql-engine

by hasura

Blazing fast, instant realtime GraphQL APIs on all your data with fine grained access control, also trigger webhooks on database events.

⭐ 32.1k🍴 3k 💻 TypeScriptCoding Knowledge Recommended
Updated 31 Oct 2026 Explore Tool
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swagger-ui

by swagger-api

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

⭐ 29.1k🍴 9.2k 💻 JavaScriptCoding Knowledge Recommended
Updated 31 Oct 2026 Explore Tool
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SmsForwarder

by pppscn

短信转发器——监控Android手机短信、来电、APP通知,并根据指定规则转发到其他手机:钉钉群自定义机器人、钉钉企业内机器人、企业微信群机器人、飞书机器人、企业微信应用消息、邮箱、bark、webhook、Telegram机器人、Server酱、PushPlus、手机短信等。包括主动控制服务端与客户端,让你轻松远程发短信、查短信、查通话、查话簿、查电量等。…

⭐ 28.7k🍴 3.5k 💻 KotlinCoding Knowledge Recommended
Updated 01 Nov 2026 Explore Tool
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postgrest

by PostgREST

REST API for any Postgres database

⭐ 27.7k🍴 1.2k 💻 HaskellCoding Knowledge Recommended
Updated 30 Oct 2026 Explore Tool
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yapi

by YMFE

YApi 是一个可本地部署的、打通前后端及QA的、可视化的接口管理平台

⭐ 27.7k🍴 4.8k 💻 JavaScriptCoding Knowledge Recommended
Updated 12 Aug 2024 Explore Tool
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openapi-generator

by OpenAPITools

OpenAPI Generator allows generation of API client libraries (SDK generation), server stubs, documentation and configuration automatically given an OpenAPI Spec (v2, v3)

⭐ 26.8k🍴 7.7k 💻 JavaCoding Knowledge Recommended
Updated 01 Nov 2026 Explore Tool
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ItChat

by littlecodersh

A complete and graceful API for Wechat. 微信个人号接口、微信机器人及命令行微信,三十行即可自定义个人号机器人。

⭐ 26.5k🍴 5.6k 💻 PythonCoding Knowledge Recommended
Updated 28 Sep 2023 Explore Tool

Checklist of the most important security countermeasures when designing, testing, and releasing your API

⭐ 23.3k🍴 2.6k 💻 —Basic Technical Setup
Updated 21 Jul 2026 Explore Tool
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api-guidelines

by microsoft

Microsoft REST API Guidelines

⭐ 23.3k🍴 2.7k 💻 —Basic Technical Setup
Updated 30 Oct 2026 Explore Tool
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skyvern

by Skyvern-AI

Automate browser based workflows with AI

⭐ 23.3k🍴 2.2k 💻 PythonCoding Knowledge Recommended
Updated 01 Nov 2026 Explore Tool
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chi

by go-chi

lightweight, idiomatic and composable router for building Go HTTP services

⭐ 23k🍴 2.3k 💻 GoCoding Knowledge Recommended
Updated 18 Oct 2026 Explore Tool
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whatsapp-web.js

by wwebjs

A WhatsApp client library for NodeJS that connects through the WhatsApp Web browser app

⭐ 22.8k🍴 5.2k 💻 JavaScriptCoding Knowledge Recommended
Updated 01 Nov 2026 Explore Tool
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parse-server

by parse-community

Parse Server for Node.js / Express

⭐ 21.4k🍴 4.8k 💻 JavaScriptCoding Knowledge Recommended
Updated 01 Nov 2026 Explore Tool

🚀 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,…

⭐ 21.3k🍴 3k 💻 PythonCoding Knowledge Recommended
Updated 02 Nov 2026 Explore Tool
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gofr

by gofr-dev

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

⭐ 20.8k🍴 1.8k 💻 GoCoding Knowledge Recommended
Updated 01 Nov 2026 Explore Tool
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server

by bitwarden

Bitwarden infrastructure/backend (API, database, Docker, etc).

⭐ 20.6k🍴 1.8k 💻 C#Coding Knowledge Recommended
Updated 01 Nov 2026 Explore Tool
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grpc-gateway

by grpc-ecosystem

gRPC to JSON proxy generator following the gRPC HTTP spec

⭐ 20k🍴 2.4k 💻 GoCoding Knowledge Recommended
Updated 31 Oct 2026 Explore Tool
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iii

by iii-hq

Effortlessly compose, extend, and observe every service in real-time for the first time ever.

⭐ 18.9k🍴 1.3k 💻 RustCoding Knowledge Recommended
Updated 01 Nov 2026 Explore Tool
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msw

by mswjs

The industry standard for API mocking in JavaScript.

⭐ 18.3k🍴 644 💻 TypeScriptCoding Knowledge Recommended
Updated 17 Oct 2026 Explore Tool
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maxun

by getmaxun

Turn any website into a structured API. Extract, automate, search and monitor the web.

⭐ 18.1k🍴 1.6k 💻 TypeScriptNo Coding Required
Updated 28 Oct 2026 Explore Tool
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swagger-codegen

by swagger-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.

⭐ 17.8k🍴 5.9k 💻 MustacheCoding Knowledge Recommended
Updated 26 Oct 2026 Explore Tool
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TikTokDownloader

by JoeanAmier

抖音 / TikTok 平台作品下载/数据采集工具

⭐ 17.3k🍴 2.9k 💻 JavaScriptCoding Knowledge Recommended
Updated 29 Oct 2026 Explore Tool
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apisix

by apache

The Cloud-Native API Gateway and AI Gateway

⭐ 17.3k🍴 3k 💻 LuaCoding Knowledge Recommended
Updated 30 Oct 2026 Explore Tool
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LibreTranslate

by LibreTranslate

Free and Open Source Machine Translation API. Self-hosted, offline capable and easy to setup.

⭐ 17.2k🍴 1.8k 💻 PythonCoding Knowledge Recommended
Updated 26 Oct 2026 Explore Tool
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OpenWA

by rmyndharis

Free, Open Source, Self-Hosted WhatsApp API Gateway

⭐ 16.4k🍴 3.9k 💻 TypeScriptCoding Knowledge Recommended
Updated 01 Nov 2026 Explore Tool