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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.

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      Great interface
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      Easy to use
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      More stable and performant than the others
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      Saves endpoints list for testing
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      Supports environment variables
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      Integrations
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      Multi-Dimension Environment Settings
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      Paste curl commands into Paw
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      Creates code for any language or framework

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        It's not free
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        MacOS Only

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      What is API Umbrella?

      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?

      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.

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