# Resting

> Debug, inspect and test HTTP APIs visually

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/resting](https://chrome-stats.com/d/resting)

## Overview

- **ID:** `resting`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Mirko
- **Category:** web-development
- **Daily users:** 341
- **Rating:** 4.00 / 5 (11 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.10.0
- **Last updated:** 2024-11-27
- **First published:** 2017-12-26
- **Size:** 1.06 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-06
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/resting/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/mirkoperillo/resting/issues](https://github.com/mirkoperillo/resting/issues)

## Description

Resting is a Chrome extension designed for developers and testers to debug, inspect, and test HTTP APIs swiftly and visually. It offers a clean and lightweight interface to efficiently handle HTTP requests including multipart, x-www-form-urlencoded, raw data, and file uploads.

Key features include support for BASIC, OAuth 2.0, and JWT authentication, tabbed multiple requests, and HTTP header auto-completion. Users can highlight and navigate JSON responses, copy outputs to clipboard, and view response headers. Resting also supports the use of variables organized into contexts for flexible request building.

Users can save requests as bookmarks organized into folders with import/export capabilities. Privacy is a strong focus, with all data stored locally on the device's Indexed DB ensuring no data is sent over the internet. Inspired by Postman, Resting offers a community-friendly, efficient, offline HTTP client to streamline daily API testing workflows.

## Rankings

- #6,309 — Overall
- #11 — rest
- #14 — testing
- #24 — listing
- #78 — debug
- #106 — paypal

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `<all_urls>`
- `webRequest`
- `downloads`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Low risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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## Review summary

### Pros

- Easy to use for API testing
- Allows to save API information
- Useful for backend developers

### Cons

- Contexts do not work properly
- Headers do not seem to be saved
- Unable to paste a raw query directly, instead have to compose it field by field

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/resting)