API Bin

Provides a simple, modern, example API for demoing or debugging various features, including:

• HTTP, HTTPS (TLS), and HTTP/2
• OpenAPI 3 & JSON Schema
• Client-driven content negotiation
  • gzip & br content encoding for large responses
  • JSON, YAML, & CBOR formats
• Conditional requests via ETag or LastModified
• Echo back request info to help debugging
• Cached responses to test proxy & client-side caching
• Auth, form, multipart upload, redirect, retry, timeout, cookie, and header fixtures
• Example structured data
  • Shows off object, array, string, date, binary, integer, number, boolean, etc.
• A sample CRUD API for books & reviews with simulated server-side updates
• A resettable sample CRUD API for docs-oriented item examples
• Image responses JPEG, WEBP, GIF, PNG & HEIC
• Server-Sent Events and NDJSON streaming with JSON events
• Byte streams, range requests, explicit compression fixtures, and content negotiation examples
• RFC7807 structured errors

This project is open source: https://github.com/danielgtaylor/apibin

You can run it localy via Docker:

# Start the server
$ docker run -p 8888:8888 ghcr.io/danielgtaylor/apibin:latest

# Make a request
$ restish :8888/types