# Standards.REST

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/restful-services/standards-rest/  
**Provider:** RESTful Services — https://apis.io/providers/restful-services/  
**Documentation:** https://standards.rest/

Standards.REST is one of 5 APIs that [RESTful Services](https://apis.io/providers/restful-services/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Best Practices and Standards. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

A curated collection of standards, conventions, and best practices for building RESTful APIs, including HAL, JSON:API, Siren, Collection+JSON, and HATEOAS patterns.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **Documentation** — https://standards.rest/
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/restful-services/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other RESTful Services APIs (4)

- [Zalando RESTful API and Event Guidelines](https://apis.io/apis/restful-services/zalando-rest-guidelines/)
- [Microsoft Azure REST API Guidelines](https://apis.io/apis/restful-services/azure-rest-guidelines/)
- [AWS API Gateway](https://apis.io/apis/restful-services/aws-api-gateway/)
- [Google Apigee API Management](https://apis.io/apis/restful-services/google-apigee/)

## Tags

Best Practices, Standards

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/apis/restful-services/standards-rest/). The API's provider profile, Kin Score and agent-readiness rating are at https://apis.io/providers/restful-services/.