RapidAPI Acquires Leading API Design Solution Paw, Extends Next-Generation Platform

Latest Paw release integrates with RapidAPI platform, expands support beyond Mac to include Windows, Linux, and Web Versions

RapidAPI, a next–generation API Platform that enables developers and enterprises to find, connect to and manage thousands of APIs, announced the acquisition of Paw, a leading API design and collaboration tool. The acquisition enables RapidAPI to extend its API platform across the entire API development lifecycle, creating a seamless experience for developers to build, test, and manage their APIs. 

Additionally, RapidAPI and Paw announced that the latest release of Paw will also support Windows and Linux,  bringing the intuitive UI, advanced features, and superior performance that tens of thousands of paid subscribers have come to rely on with Paw, to an even broader audience. WithPaw, users can simplify development workflows and streamline API collaboration, enabling organizations to accelerate API delivery and improve the developer experience.

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“Our acquisition of Paw is a natural progression for RapidAPI, which is focused on empowering developers to create transformative software applications,” said Iddo Gino, RapidAPI founder and CEO. “Our decision to expand our product suite is driven by what we have heard directly from customers at every stage of our development, beginning with the need  to create a white-labeled version of our public marketplace to adding the tools needed to design and test APIs.”

Added Gino, “Working collaboratively over the last few months with the Paw team, we are taking the product to the next level by making it cross-platform across Linux and Windows in addition to Mac and integrating it with our product suite. We have leveraged our years of collective experience working on developer tooling to build a platform for developers that streamlines their workflow and creates a more connected experience.”

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Advanced Features Enable an Integrated Development Experience

As part of the RapidAPI platform, Paw provides a fully-featured API client that supports complex design and development workflows with intuitive UX, cross-platform collaboration, and integration with RapidAPI Marketplace and RapidAPI Enterprise Hub.

Improve  Developer Experience 

Paw has an intuitive UX and provides superior performance, providing users with a better developer experience. With Paw, users can quickly create, find, and run API requests with an intuitive top-level sidebar navigation and a simple interface for setting up arguments, headers, and parameters. As a result, organizations can

• Build APIs faster with an intuitive visual programming interface that supports complex design and development workflows, generating code snippets, and more

• Work with industry standards to import/export OpenAPI 2.0 and 3.0, RAML, GraphQL and API Blueprint

Accelerate API Delivery 

Paw  eases design and development workflows for ongoing API projects by  offering powerful environment variables and dynamic values that improve productivity for developers. Unlike other design solutions, Paw can be extended through its JavaScript API to allow custom API flows. 

• Create complex design and development flows with advanced environments, dynamic values, and JavaScript-based Extensions

• Ensure security by authenticating against standard schemas such as OAuth 1 and 2

• Enable spec-driven development by seamlessly publish specs to RapidAPI Enterprise Hub/Marketplace

Collaborate Across Teams 

Paw enables multiple development teams to collaborate while keeping all API calls in sync. Increase productivity for all team members involved in designing and consuming APIs including product managers designing the API structure, backend developers implementing the API, QA engineers testing the API, and frontend developers consuming the API.

• Keep projects in sync with automatic push and pull requests to the cloud

• Develop on any platform with choice between native desktop or cross-platform web apps

• Develop simultaneously with versioning and branching for API projects

“Paw has gained traction over the last six years by building an API design tool that was beloved by Mac users for its strong UI and performance,” said Micha Mizaheri, founder and CEO of Paw.. “By joining forces with RapidAPI, we are able to take that developer experience to the next level by demaraticing Paw across multiple platforms and integrating it across RapidAPI’s domain of developer tools. Together, we create a connected experience for developers, providing them with everything they need for building, publishing and managing APIs.”

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