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.
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