I built a free Burp/Caido alternative but, zero setup

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I built a free Burp/Caido alternative but, zero setup

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apiaxess.dev

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Sept. 30, 2026

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32

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Oct. 2, 2026, 1:01 a.m.

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Oct. 2, 2026, 1:01 a.m.

Description

This is Katriel, the architect of the tool APIaxess.I have been API pentesting for a good time now, and starting with API pentesting was a bit of a rough patch. Specially the setting up and having to know the intricacies of proxies, networking and other stuff. Then once i got through it, the next rough patch was the apk pentesting, where getting the traffic of any apk was more of a task then the pentesting itself. So i started by writing scripts that automates the process and then made sure that any rooted adb just automatically started sending traffic to the burpsuite setup, and then that helped a lot. Then i just thought that this issue needs to be resolved in a more open manner, since its a very known pain point. So i built a GUI around it, made sure that it can handle everything that a normal api traffic tool can and then thought of releasing it, for people to test it out. Before the inital release, i have myself battle tested this tool, in multiple ways, while also sharing it with other professionals in my industry who constantly use Burp/Caido/HTTPToolkit or other similar tools. I know that the tool needs more features and more refinements, but thought of making it public so that i can get to know about the issues much sooner.Do check out the Github and leave a star if it helped you out, and do share it with your colleagues so that they could also waste less time setting it up and more time doing the work that they like. github.com/KatrielMoses/apiaxess

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