Top 23 Python RESTful API Projects

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1. django-rest-framework

   1 208 29,117 8.4 Python

   Web APIs for Django. 🎸

   

   Project mention: How to Build RESTful APIs with Django | dev.to | 2025-05-10

   Django’s "batteries-included" philosophy makes it an excellent choice for API development. With Django REST Framework (DRF), you get:

2. InfluxDB

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3. glance

   2 103 28,670 9.7 Python

   Glances an Eye on your system. A top/htop alternative for GNU/Linux, BSD, Mac OS and Windows operating systems.

   

   Project mention: Glances – Htop Alternative | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-10-05

4. Tweepy

   3 29 10,880 7.1 Python

   Twitter for Python!

   

5. doccano

   4 13 9,986 4.9 Python

   Open source annotation tool for machine learning practitioners.

   

6. falcon

   5 9 9,647 8.8 Python

   The no-magic web API and microservices framework for Python developers, with an emphasis on reliability and performance at scale.

   

7. flask-restful

   6 5 6,896 0.0 Python

   Simple framework for creating REST APIs

   

8. hug

   7 1 6,883 0.0 Python

   Embrace the APIs of the future. Hug aims to make developing APIs as simple as possible, but no simpler.

   

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10. eve

    8 0 6,722 6.5 Python

    REST API framework designed for human beings (by pyeve)

    

11. connexion

    9 24 4,538 7.0 Python

    Connexion is a modern Python web framework that makes spec-first and api-first development easy.

    

    Project mention: Top 20 Python API Frameworks with OpenAPI Support | dev.to | 2024-12-19

    Connexion is a framework that automagically handles HTTP requests based on OpenAPI specification, built on top of Flask.

12. Dependency Injector

    10 7 4,337 8.2 Python

    Dependency injection framework for Python

    

13. django-tastypie

    11 6 3,942 5.9 Python

    Creating delicious APIs for Django apps since 2010.

    

14. flasgger

    12 4 3,678 3.3 Python

    Easy OpenAPI specs and Swagger UI for your Flask API

    

15. pycord

    13 29 2,827 9.3 Python

    Pycord is a modern, easy to use, feature-rich, and async ready API wrapper for Discord written in Python

    

16. django-sql-explorer

    14 6 2,824 7.1 Python

    SQL reporting that Just Works. Fast, simple, and confusion-free. Write and share queries in a delightful SQL editor, with AI assistance.

    

    Project mention: Show HN: SQL Explorer – Open-source reporting tool that just works | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-07-02

    You got it! You'll need three values set in settings.py:

    https://github.com/explorerhq/django-sql-explorer/blob/64170...

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17. Flask RestPlus

    15 6 2,737 0.0 Python

    Fully featured framework for fast, easy and documented API development with Flask

    

18. baserow

    16 18 2,672 9.9 Python

    The official repository is hosted on https://gitlab.com/bramw/baserow. Baserow is an open source no-code database tool and Airtable alternative.

    

    Project mention: Baserow 1.32: Dashboards, enhanced Airtable import, SSO for Application Builder, and more - Open Source Airtable Alternative | dev.to | 2025-03-19

    Try out Baserow 1.32: https://baserow.io

19. sandman

    17 0 2,300 0.0 Python

    Sandman "makes things REST".

    

20. sandman2

    18 4 2,023 0.0 Python

    Automatically generate a RESTful API service for your legacy database. No code required!

    

    Project mention: Automatically Generate REST and GraphQL APIs From Your Database | dev.to | 2024-12-19

    Some solutions are flexible to handle multiple types of databases. Often allowing you to combine them into a single API. We already mentioned Dreamfactory, but others include Apinizer, Directus, and sandman2.

21. django-admin-interface

    19 5 1,926 8.2 Python

    :superhero: :zap: django's default admin interface with superpowers - customizable themes, popup windows replaced by modals and many other features.

    

22. flask-ask

    20 0 1,915 0.0 Python

    Alexa Skills Kit for Python

    

23. flask-api

    21 1 1,441 6.4 Python

    Browsable web APIs for Flask.

    

24. pdir2

    22 0 1,329 4.6 Python

    Pretty dir() printing with joy:beer:

    

25. nextcord

    23 11 1,219 8.0 Python

    A Python wrapper for the Discord API forked from discord.py

    

26. SaaSHub

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