apibeat 0.1.4

Benchmarking tool to compare REST and GraphQL API performance

📦 apibeat

A simple CLI tool to benchmark and compare REST vs GraphQL API performance by measuring average latency.

Features

• Measure average latency of REST and GraphQL endpoints
• Support custom HTTP methods (GET, POST, etc.) for REST
• Accept GraphQL queries via CLI
• Simple, clean CLI interface
• Useful for API optimization and performance comparisons

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Installation

Install from PyPI

pip install apibeat



### Use a different HTTP method (REST)

```bash
apibeat --url https://api.example.com/data --method POST


### Use a different HTTP method (GraphQL Apis)


```bash
apibeat --type graphql --url https://api.example.com/graphql --query "{ users { id name } }"

## CLI Arguments

| Argument  | Description                                   | Required            | Default |
|-----------|-----------------------------------------------|---------------------|---------|
| `--url`   | The API endpoint URL to benchmark              | Yes                 | —       |
| `--type`  | API type: `rest` or `graphql`                  | No                  | `rest`  |
| `--method`| HTTP method for REST requests                   | No (only for REST)  | `GET`   |
| `--query` | GraphQL query string (required if `--type graphql`) | Conditional         | —       |


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