apibeat 0.1.8

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

Benchmark REST API with default GET method

 apibeat --url https://api.example.com/data

Use a different HTTP method (REST)

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

Use a different HTTP method (GraphQL Apis)

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	NA
--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	NA

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