Clients for exploring APIs

Working with APIs is tricky, however today there are an amazing collection of tools that you can use to explore and debug your integrations.

Here's some of our favourite tools:

REST API Clients

• Postman Rest Client (Win, Mac, Linux)
  • Postman can be as simple as a client on your machine for exploring APIs or it can be a fully collaborative team API workspace, testing and automation solution.
  • Check out Postman here
  • MYOB now has Postman Collections for our APIs - check them out here
• PAW Rest Client (Mac)
  • Widely respected as the leading REST client for Mac, PAW is a very powerful application for working with APIs
  • It's probably my favourite REST client :)
  • Check out PAW here
• Insomnia Rest Client (Win, Mac, Linux)
  • With a very clean modern look, Insomnia is the new kid on the block and is rapidly becoming a fan favourite
  • Check out Insomnia here

Other handy tools

• Transformer from APIMatic (online)
  • Sometimes you'll have an API definition in a format that just isn't what you need. Transformer allows you to quickly convert from a Postman Collection, to API Bluerpint, Swagger or OpenAPI
  • Check out Transformer from APIMatic here
• JSONLint (online)
  • We love JSON, however sometimes you just need a hand to clean up the format, find that rouge , or { and get you on your path. JSONLint is a simple yet effective tool for this.
  • Check out JSONLint here
• Wireshark (Win, Mac)
  • When working with APIs often you'll need to look at the request and response headers to see exactly what is being sent. Wireshark is a good tool for debugging calls between your app and our APIs.
  • Check out Wireshark here
• Fiddler (Win, Mac, Linux)
  • Fiddler is a developer favourite tool for 'fiddling' with the requests and responses between code and server. It's a solid tool for debugging calls to our APIs.
  • Check out Fiddler here
• Charles Proxy (Win, Mac, Linux)
  • One of my favourite tools, Charles Proxy allows you to quickly setup a proxy to bounce calls through and then monitor the requests and responses. Great for testing mobile device calls
  • Check out Charles Proxy here

Got a favourite tool we haven't outlined above, drop a note in the comments below.