Complete RESTful API debugging/testing tool [closed]

Question

I'm looking for the most complete tool, preferably portable GUI or browser plugin to test RESTful API.

What I need is:

• GET/POST/DELETE/PUT support
• multiple file uploads as fields (multipart/form-data)
• file uploads as body

Extra points for:

• possibility to save multiple configurations and use them to pre-fill parameters
• OAuth support
• nice JSON response formatting

Currently I'm using 3 tools:

• Chrome REST Console extension — My favorite, very nicely done. Has OAuth. However the functionality missing for me is sending file as a body of the request; Cannot send multiple files;

• Firefox Poster add-on — Quite nice, but the functionality it's missing for file as POST fields parameters; Also cannot send multiple files;

• cURL — can do anything, but it's quite tedious to use it from command line.

Answer 1

I use rest client and it has been pretty good for most of my testing needs.

Answer 2

Found one that works quite nicely for me: HTTP4e, a Rest HTTP client for Eclipse (Eclipse is my primary IDE).

It's almost exactly what I want, except two disavantages:

• it's not open source
• it has no OAuth support

Answer 3

I initially wrote a simple tool with curl internally, but soon discovered this online console for REST APIs

https://apigee.com/console/others

very useful and no effort is wasted

Answer 4

I built Postman after facing the same pain points as mentioned in the question. Has a lot of options, is open-source and under rapid development too.

Chrome web store link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fdmmgilgnpjigdojojpjoooidkmcomcm

Answer 5

You could try http://apikitchen.com. Its a really simple online debugger that even has support for shareable links and an offline version for internal networks.