Web-based REST API browser (explorer, navigator, rambler)? [closed]

Question

I'm teaching a lecture about APIs and would love to find a nice, free, Web-based tool to "browse" open REST APIs in a generic way, rendering XML and/or JSON payloads to the screen and speculatively turning anything that looks like a hyperlink into a hyperlink. So, for example, I could point it to:

http://services.healthindicators.gov/v4/REST.svc/IndicatorDescription/3/IndicatorDescriptionDataCategories/1

and see a nicely-rendered version of the data with clickable links.

Anybody know of a useful resource?

Answer 1

The Apigee Console is great. It supports a number of predefined APIs and a generic mode for any API. Apigee has a nice snapshot feature where you can make a request and then send a link to anyone and they can view the request/response you made.

There is also Hurl but it isn't always working.

Answer 2

I really like the Chrome HTTP Dev Client for exploring REST API's. Works great!

Answer 3

I use XML Tree for Chrome. Highlights and formats XML and has the option to turn URLs into links.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/gbammbheopgpmaagmckhpjbfgdfkpadb