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24 alternatives to Invoking web APIs as if they were JavaScript methods
Access web APIs as JavaScript objects. Contribute to fmontesi/jo development by creating an account on GitHub.
This is a JavaScript library that allows developers to call web APIs using the same syntax as regular JavaScript method calls. Instead of writing traditional HTTP requests, programmers can invoke remote APIs as though… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Invoking web APIs as if they were JavaScript methods launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Hey there HN! I just wrapped up an all-day documentation spree for Instant API, a JavaScript framework for easily building web APIs that implements type safety at the HTTP interface. It uses a function-as-a-service approach combined with a slightly modified JSDoc spec to automatically enforce parameter and schema validation before HTTP requests make it through to your code. You just write comments above your endpoint functions and voila, enforced type safety contracts between your API endpoints and your developers. OpenAPI specifications are generated automatically as a byproduct of simply…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Context.dev▲814Hello, My name is Yahia, I've been working on scraping products for a long time and maintain a couple of free sites in my spare time (E.g. knifegeek.io) What prompted this is i've rebuilt scraping infra at every company I've started and finally just made it a product. Pass a URL, get clean markdown, html, images, sitemap or pass a domain, get logos, colors, socials, industry data. Goal is to offer a better service than VC funded competitors at a fraction of the cost. Stealth is included and automatic at no additional cost (normally an upcharge by alternatives). Would love your honest thoughts.
Jul 2026 · context.dev · its alternatives →
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2017 · maierfelix.github.io · its alternatives →
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Effortlessly discover API behaviour with a Chrome extension that automatically generates OpenAPI specifications in real time for any app or website.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Turn any website into a reliable API with 1 prompt
Dec 2025 · skills.browser-use.com · its alternatives →
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Control the web with prompts (open source)
2025 · browser-use.com · its alternatives →
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2016 · jamapi.xyz · its alternatives →
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MailtoUI.js▲357Enhance your mailto links with a convenient user interface.
2019 · mailtoui.com · its alternatives →
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Hello HN! I'm the creator and solo developer of Extension.js, a development tool for browser extensions with built-in support for TypeScript, WebAssembly, React, and modern JavaScript. Developers use it to spend less time configuring the compilation config or learning new frameworks and more time actually writing code. Most projects similar to Extension.js rely on some sort of abstraction or configuration to get started, making the initial development process slow given the extra learning curve and setup guidelines. By using Extension.js, adding the package to your npm scripts is all it…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Gmail JavaScript API. Contribute to KartikTalwar/gmail.js development by creating an account on GitHub.
2013 · github.com · its alternatives →
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The InboxSDK is high level Javascript library used to easily build browser extensions that interact with Gmail
2015 · inboxsdk.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, https://superfunctions.com I'm working on a web app that allows Ai prompts to function as an API. I want to make it easier for developers to use Ai. I've found it painful to monitor, cache, and iterate on prompts. superfunctions.com is designed to be the simplest building block to create Ai powered apps and scripts. Simplest example I can think of: You want an api to convert human-named colors to hex You can write a prompt like: "convert {{query.color}} to color, only output hex for css" and then you can call your prompt with…
2023 · superfunctions.versoly.page · its alternatives →
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A no-dependencies HTTP client library for browsers and Node.js with a promise-based or Node.js-style callback-based API to progress events, text and binary file upload and download, partial response body, request and response headers, status code. - jakutis/httpinvoke
2013 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I built uncurl.dev to scratch my own itch: I kept getting curl commands in API docs, bug reports, or Slack messages and wanted a quick way to visualize, run, and debug them without firing up Postman or writing code to dissect them. It was also sometimes painful to create a test page specifically for non-tech users to consume an API. I originally vibe-coded this over a weekend just to make it easier for myself to debug API requests shared as curl commands. It slowly grew into something I found surprisingly useful in my workflow, so I decided to clean it up and share it. uncurl.dev…
2025 · uncurl.dev · its alternatives →
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I've been building a web UI library for a side project of mine. I thought it might be useful to others, so I'm releasing it as open source. To put it simply, I realized that most of my pain points with React come from its declarative model ui=f(state). So I'm trying something that I'm calling "imperative JSX." Instead of treating JSX as the source of truth for your UI, it essentially becomes a query interface for DOM manipulation. I first had the idea for it a few months ago, and only began writing it in earnest last week, so it's extremely early and nowhere near production-ready. Still, I'd…
2024 · npmjs.com · its alternatives →
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A scripting langauge to do HTTP routines. . Contribute to f-prime/HTTPLang development by creating an account on GitHub.
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2012 · oxjs.org · its alternatives →
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JAX in pure JavaScript, as a flexible machine learning library and compiler.
Jan 2026 · ss.ekzhang.com · its alternatives →
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TOMODOkorz - Enables cross-origin requests. Contribute to TOMODOcom/TOMODOkorz development by creating an account on GitHub.
2013 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Select anything on a website. If it is part of a table or a list, you get a URL which you can GET for a JSON representation of that list or table. Basically we are making an API for every website whether they like it or not.
2013 · ec2-54-211-79-18.compute-1.amazonaws.com · its alternatives →
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2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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the cleanest way to make http requests in js / node - Legitcode/legible
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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