Restish
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Restish, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Restish's own pricing page, checked 11 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Free and open source | Free | MIT-licensed CLI; no paid plans listed |
The facts
Each one read from Restish's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- API discovery
- It discovers OpenAPI descriptions and generates API-aware commands, help, and shell completion.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Authentication
- Documented authentication options include bearer tokens, API keys, Basic Auth, OAuth, and profile-based credentials.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Install options
- The install guide lists Homebrew, Go source installation, mise, OS-specific release archives, and a GitHub Container Registry image.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- The docs describe using Restish to explore APIs with generic URL requests and to work with registered APIs through generated commands.checked 11 Oct 2026
- License
- The project is released under the MIT License.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Output
- It can render responses in formats including JSON, YAML, tables, CSV, NDJSON, lines, and raw downloads.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Plugins
- The project documents plugins for bulk workflows, CSV, MCP, TLS signing, and custom API behavior.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Restish is a command-line tool for working with REST-style HTTP APIs.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Request input
- It supports shorthand request bodies, stdin, forms, multipart uploads, and files.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Response filtering
- It filters normalized responses with shorthand queries or jq expressions.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Security
- The documentation recommends keeping secrets out of shared project configuration and referencing secret values through environment variables.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Supported desktop systems
- Release archives are published for macOS, Linux, and Windows on amd64 and arm64.checked 11 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Available platforms
- desktopchecked 20 Sep 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
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