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API Umbrella vs Paw: What are the differences?
What is API Umbrella? Open source API management platform used by api.data.gov. API Umbrella is a proxy that sits in front of your APIs It can seamlessly add common functionality like api keys, rate limiting, and analytics to any API..
What is Paw? The ultimate REST client for Mac. Paw is a full-featured and beautifully designed Mac app that makes interaction with REST services delightful. Either you are an API maker or consumer, Paw helps you build HTTP requests, inspect the server's response and even generate client code.
API Umbrella and Paw can be categorized as "API" tools.
API Umbrella is an open source tool with 1.32K GitHub stars and 244 GitHub forks. Here's a link to API Umbrella's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of API Umbrella
Pros of Paw
- Great interface46
- Easy to use37
- More stable and performant than the others25
- Saves endpoints list for testing16
- Supports environment variables13
- Integrations12
- Multi-Dimension Environment Settings9
- Paste curl commands into Paw4
- Creates code for any language or framework2
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Cons of API Umbrella
Cons of Paw
- It's not free3
- MacOS Only2