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REST Services

Representational State Transfer (REST) is an architectural style for designing networked applications using stateless communication and standard HTTP methods (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, PATCH) to interact with resources identified by URLs. REST services underpin modern web APIs and support the full software development lifecycle from design through deployment and maintenance. This index covers REST service implementations, frameworks, best practices, patterns, tooling, and educational resources that guide how REST services are built, managed, and consumed.

REST Services is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Architecture, HTTP, Web Services, REST, and Service Design.

The REST Services catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context.

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
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Composite quality — 14.8/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 5.2 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 1.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Governance 1.6 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
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Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Rest Services Context

5 classes · 13 properties

JSON-LD

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Rest Services Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Reference
Reference
 Guide
Guide

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Vocabulary
Vocabulary
 JSONLDContext
JSONLDContext

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website
Website

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: rest-services
name: REST Services
description: Representational State Transfer (REST) is an architectural style for designing networked applications using stateless
  communication and standard HTTP methods (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, PATCH) to interact with resources identified by URLs. REST
  services underpin modern web APIs and support the full software development lifecycle from design through deployment and
  maintenance. This index covers REST service implementations, frameworks, best practices, patterns, tooling, and educational
  resources that guide how REST services are built, managed, and consumed.
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/rest-services.png
tags:
- Architecture
- HTTP
- Web Services
- REST
- Service Design
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/rest-services/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2025-01-01'
modified: '2026-05-02'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis: []
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/rest-services-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://restfulapi.net
- type: Reference
  url: https://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/rest_arch_style.htm
- type: Guide
  url: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/build-consume-and-document-a-rest-api/
- type: Vocabulary
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/rest-services/refs/heads/main/vocabulary/rest-services-vocabulary.yml
- type: JSONLDContext
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/rest-services/refs/heads/main/json-ld/rest-services-context.jsonld
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com