Restish is a command-line client for working with REST-style HTTP APIs.
Instead of relying solely on generic request syntax, it can discover API descriptions exposed by a service and turn them into CLI operations, helping users interact with current resources, fields, and actions without needing a separate hand-written client. It supports OpenAPI 3.0, OpenAPI 3.1, and JSON Schema, which makes it useful for exploring, testing, and scripting against modern web APIs.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Supports generic HEAD, GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, and DELETE requests alongside generated commands for API operations.
- Handles authentication with support for HTTP Basic, API keys, OAuth2 client credentials, and OAuth2 authorization code flows.
- Automatically paginates resource collections using hypermedia
prevandnextlinks. - Provides content negotiation, decoding, and unmarshalling for formats including JSON, YAML, CBOR, MessagePack, and Amazon Ion.
- Supports compressed responses including Gzip, Deflate, and Brotli.
- Parses hypermedia formats including HAL, Siren, Terrifically Simple JSON, and JSON:API.
- Offers shell completion for Bash, Fish, Zsh, and PowerShell.
- Includes local caching, automatic retries for rate-limited APIs, shorthand filtering, and colorized readable output.
- Ships as a fast native zero-dependency binary.
Website: github.com/rest-sh/restish
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Developer: rest-sh
License: MIT License
Restish is written in Go. Learn Go with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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