API Dash ⚡️

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API Dash is a beautiful open-source cross-platform API Client that can help you easily create & customize your API requests, visually inspect responses (full list of supported mime-types) and generate API integration code (full list) on the go.

API Dash

Download

API Dash can be downloaded from the links below:

<table> <thead> <tr> <th>OS</th> <th>Distribution</th> <th>Installation Guide</th> <th>CPU/Architecture</th> <th>Download Link</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td>iOS/iPad</td> <td>App Store</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td><a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/api-dash-api-client-testing/id6711353348">Link</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td>macOS</td> <td><code>.dmg</code></td> <td><a href="https://github.com/foss42/apidash/blob/main/INSTALLATION.md#macos">Link</a></td> <td>Apple Silicon & Intel</td> <td><a href="https://github.com/foss42/apidash/releases/latest/download/apidash-macos.dmg">Link</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Windows</td> <td><code>.exe</code></td> <td><a href="https://github.com/foss42/apidash/blob/main/INSTALLATION.md#windows">Link</a></td> <td>64-bit</td> <td><a href="https://github.com/foss42/apidash/releases/latest/download/apidash-windows-x86_64.exe">Link</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td rowspan=5>Linux</td> <td rowspan=2><code>.deb</code></td> <td rowspan=2><a href="https://github.com/foss42/apidash/blob/main/INSTALLATION.md#debian-based-linux-distributions-debian-ubuntu-linux-mint-etc">Link</a></td> <td>amd64</td> <td><a href="https://github.com/foss42/apidash/releases/latest/download/apidash-linux-amd64.deb">Link</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td>arm64</td> <td><a href="https://github.com/foss42/apidash/releases/latest/download/apidash-linux-arm64.deb">Link</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td rowspan=2><code>.rpm</code></td> <td rowspan=2><a href="https://github.com/foss42/apidash/blob/main/INSTALLATION.md#red-hat-based-linux-distributions-fedora-rocky-almalinux-centos-rhel-etc">Link</a></td> <td>x86_64</td> <td><a href="https://github.com/foss42/apidash/releases/latest/download/apidash-linux-x86_64.rpm">Link</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td>aarch64</td> <td><a href="https://github.com/foss42/apidash/releases/latest/download/apidash-linux-aarch64.rpm">Link</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><code>PKGBUILD</code> (Arch Linux)</td> <td><a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/apidash-bin">Link</a></td> <td>x86_64</td> <td><a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/apidash-bin">Link</a></td> </tr> </tbody> </table>

List of Features

| API Type | Supported | | --- | --- | | HTTP | ✅ | | GraphQL | ✅ | | SSE/Streaming | ✅ | | AI | https://github.com/foss42/apidash/issues/871 | | WebSocket | https://github.com/foss42/apidash/issues/15 | | MQTT | https://github.com/foss42/apidash/issues/115 | | gRPC | https://github.com/foss42/apidash/issues/14 |

| Import Collection From | Supported | | --- | --- | | Postman | ✅ | | cURL | ✅ | | Insomnia | ✅ | | OpenAPI | https://github.com/foss42/apidash/issues/121 | | hurl | https://github.com/foss42/apidash/issues/123 | | HAR | ✅ |

↗️ Create & Customize API Requests

Create different types of HTTP requests (GET, HEAD, POST, PATCH, PUT and DELETE).
Easily manipulate and play around with request inputs like headers, query parameters and body.
Full support to send text content with 🥳 Unicode/Emoji and preview any API response containing Unicode/Emoji.
Create GraphQL requests with headers and query.

💼 Organize Requests in Collections & Folders

Create collections and folders to organize your requests.
Press and Drag to Re-arrange requests.
Click and open popup menu to rename, duplicate and delete a request.

🔎 Visually Preview and Download Data & Multimedia API Responses

Inspect the API Response (HTTP status code, error message, headers, body, time taken).
View formatted code previews for responses of various content types like JSON, XML, YAML, HTML, SQL, etc.
API Dash helps explore, test & preview Multimedia API responses which is not supported by any other API client. You can directly test APIs that return images, PDF, audio & more. Check out the full list of supported MIME types/formats here.
Save 💾 response body of any mimetype (image, text, etc.) directly in the Downloads folder of your system by clicking on the Download button.

👩🏻‍💻 Code Generation

We started out as the only open source API client which supported advanced Dart code generation to easily integrate APIs in Dart/Flutter projects or to directly run it on DartPad. With time we have added more code-gens and currently API Dash supports generation of well-tested integration codes for JavaScript, Python, Kotlin & various other languages. You can check out the full list of supported languages/libraries.

🌙 Full Dark Mode Support

Easily switch between light mode and dark mode.

💾 Data

Data is persisted locally on the disk. To save the current snapshot, just press the Save button in the collection pane.
Click and open the collection/folder popup menu to export it as HAR. This can be version controlled & can be directly imported in other API Clients like Postman, Paw, etc.
Export your entire data into a HAR (HTTP Archive) file. To access this option goto Settings > Export Data.

⚙️ Settings & Other Options

Customize various options using a dedicated Settings screen.
Window Configuration (Size & Position) is persisted and restored on app start. (Only macOS & Windows)

Code Generators

API Dash currently supports API integration code generation for the following languages/libraries.

| Language | Library | Comment/Issues | | ---------------------- | ------------- | ------- | | cURL | | | | HAR | | | | C | libcurl | | | C# | HttpClient | | | C# | RestSharp | | | Dart | http | | | Dart | dio | | | Go | net/http | | | JavaScript | axios | | | JavaScript | fetch | | | JavaScript (node.js) | axios | | | JavaScript (node.js) | fetch | | | Java | asynchttpclient | | | Java | HttpClient | | | Java | okhttp3 | | | Java | Unirest | | | Julia | HTTP | | | Kotlin | okhttp3 | | | PHP | curl | | | PHP | guzzle | | | PHP | HTTPlug | | | Python | requests | | | Python | http.client | | | Ruby | faraday | | | Ruby | net/http | | | Rust | hyper | | | Rust | reqwest | | | Rust | ureq | | | Rust | Actix Client | | | Swift | Alamofire | | | Swift | URLSession | |

We welcome contributions to support other programming languages/libraries/frameworks. Please check out more details here.

MIME Types supported by API Dash Response Previewer

API Dash is a next-gen API client that supports exploring, testing & previewing various data & multimedia API responses which is limited/not supported by other API clients. You can directly test APIs that return images, PDF, audio & more.

Here is the complete list of MIME types that can be directly previewed in API Dash:

| File Type | Mimetype | Extension | Comment | | --------- | -------------------------- | ----------------- | -------- | | PDF | application/pdf | .pdf | | | Video | video/mp4 | .mp4 | | | Video | video/webm | .webm | | | Vid

Apidash

Install / Use

README