API

API Dash: Test, Visualize & Integrate Rest APIs (Flutter Open-source Free App)

Hazem Abbas

Dec 5, 2023 — 3 min read

API Dash is an exceptional open-source cross-platform API Client that empowers you to effortlessly create and personalize API requests, visually examine responses, and generate Dart code on the fly. With API Dash, you have the ability to seamlessly test, visualize, and integrate APIs.

Alternative to:

Postman
Insomnia

Features

1- Create & Customize API Requests

Create different types of HTTP requests (GET, HEAD, POST, PATCH, PUT and DELETE).
Easily manipulate and play around with request inputs like headers, query parameters and body.
Full support to send text content with 🥳 Unicode/Emoji and preview any API response containing Unicode/Emoji.

2- Organize Requests in Collections & Folders

Create collections and folders to organize your requests.
Press and Drag to Re-arrange requests.
Click and open popup menu to rename, duplicate and delete a request.

3- Visually Preview and Download Data & Multimedia API Responses

Inspect the API Response (HTTP status code, error message, headers, body, time taken).
View formatted code previews for responses of various content types like JSON, XML, YAML, HTML, SQL, etc.
API Dash helps explore, test & preview Multimedia API responses which is not supported by any other API client. You can directly test APIs that return images, PDF, audio & more. Check out the full list of supported mimetypes/formats here.
Save 💾 response body of any mimetype (image, text, etc.) directly in the Downloads folder of your system by clicking on the Download button.

4- Code Generation

Now, API Dash also supports generating tested integration code for JavaScript, Python, Kotlin, and other languages. Check out the full list of supported languages/libraries here.

5- Dark mode

6- Data

Data is persisted locally on the disk. To save the current snapshot, just press the Save button in the collection pane.
Click and open the collection/folder popup menu to export it as HAR. This can be version controlled & can be directly imported in other API Clients like Postman, Paw, etc.
Export your entire data into a HAR (HTTP Archive) file. To access this option goto Settings > Export Data.

7- Settings & Other Options

Customize various options using a dedicated Settings screen.
Window Configuration (Size & Position) is persisted and restored on app start. (Only macOS & Windows)

8- Code Generators

API Dash currently supports API integration code generation for the following languages/libraries.

Language	Library
cURL
HAR
Dart	`http`
JavaScript	`axios`
JavaScript	`fetch`
JavaScript (`node.js`)	`axios`
JavaScript (`node.js`)	`fetch`
Python	`http.client`
Python	`requests`
Kotlin	`okhttp3`