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Restful API projects on GitHub

REST APIs and frameworks for exposing and consuming them.

As of , the most-starred Restful API projects on GitHub are nocodb (65.3K stars), hyperswitch (45.3K stars) and glances (33.8K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 8 Restful API repositories with 249.9K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was hyperswitch, with +11 stars in a day.

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249.9KStars in total
+41Stars in a day
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Hot right now

Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+11

hyperswitch

juspay/hyperswitch · ★ 45.3K

Hyperswitch is an open-source, composable payments platform that lets businesses route, retry, vault, and reconcile payments across 120+ payment processors like Stripe, Adyen, Braintree, and Worldpay, either self-hosted or as a SaaS.

+8

glances

nicolargo/glances · ★ 33.8K

Glances is an open-source cross-platform system monitoring tool, a top/htop alternative that shows CPU, memory, disk, network, containers, sensors, and running processes in one dashboard, reachable via terminal, web UI, API, or an MCP server for AI assistants.

+6

go-zero

zeromicro/go-zero · ★ 33.4K

go-zero is a cloud-native Go framework for building web and RPC microservices, packed with built-in engineering practices. It has been serving sites with tens of millions of users for years and is listed in the CNCF Landscape.

+6

drogon

drogonframework/drogon · ★ 14.3K

Drogon is an open-source, MIT-licensed C++14/17/20 HTTP application framework for building web application server programs in C++ — from REST APIs to server-rendered sites and WebSocket apps.

The all-time top

8 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · nocodb/nocodb

    nocodb

    NocoDB is a free, self-hostable Airtable alternative: an online database builder that gives your data a rich, no-code spreadsheet interface.

    65.3K
  2. #2 · juspay/hyperswitch

    hyperswitch

    Hyperswitch is an open-source, composable payments platform that lets businesses route, retry, vault, and reconcile payments across 120+ payment processors like Stripe, Adyen, Braintree, and Worldpay, either self-hosted or as a SaaS.

    45.3K
  3. #3 · nicolargo/glances

    glances

    Glances is an open-source cross-platform system monitoring tool, a top/htop alternative that shows CPU, memory, disk, network, containers, sensors, and running processes in one dashboard, reachable via terminal, web UI, API, or an MCP server for AI assistants.

    33.8K
  1. 4

    go-zero

    33.4Kzeromicro/go-zero · Go

    go-zero is a cloud-native Go framework for building web and RPC microservices, packed with built-in engineering practices. It has been serving sites with tens of millions of users for years and is listed in the CNCF Landscape.

  2. 5

    openapi-generator

    26.8KOpenAPITools/openapi-generator · Java

    OpenAPI Generator creates API client libraries (SDKs), server stubs, documentation and configuration files automatically from an OpenAPI spec — versions 2.0 and 3.0 are supported, with 3.1 in beta.

  3. 6

    grpc-gateway

    20Kgrpc-ecosystem/grpc-gateway · Go

    gRPC-Gateway is a protoc plugin that reads your protobuf service definitions and generates a reverse-proxy server which translates a RESTful HTTP API into gRPC, so one service can serve both gRPC and RESTful JSON clients at the same time.

  4. 7

    drogon

    14.3Kdrogonframework/drogon · C++

    Drogon is an open-source, MIT-licensed C++14/17/20 HTTP application framework for building web application server programs in C++ — from REST APIs to server-rendered sites and WebSocket apps.

  5. 8

    SpaceX-API

    10.9Kr-spacex/SpaceX-API · JavaScript

    It is an open source REST API that serves SpaceX data: launches, rockets, cores, capsules, starlink satellites, launchpads, and landing pads.

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