Show HN: OctAPI – Visualize API Routes Directly in VS Code

5 points by sabah_debugs_it a day ago

Started noticing issues while working with friends that I thought only I was encountering: spending too long manually adding routes to postman, getting lost looking for a single route in the sea of files and thought Hey, I can fix that (I think?)

So OctAPI is a VSCode extension that automatically detects and displays API routes from a local project (currently supports Express.js, NestJS, Next.js, Koa, Flask, and FastAPI), it filters and groups them, generates a Postman export JSON file, and adds to favs. It doesn't run your code and it all stays in your machine

A friend literally screamed when they were live testing it for me lol

It's open source (https://github.com/Hasbi-sabah/OctAPI) and here's its landing page (https://hasbi-sabah.github.io/octapi-landing-page)

I'm hoping to add custom tags, more frameworks support and even AI features.