> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://apisyouwonthate.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Save Money and use APIs - URL: https://apisyouwonthate.com/newsletter/save-money-and-use-apis/ - Published: 2026-05-15T14:33:25.000Z - Updated: 2026-05-15T14:33:25.000Z - Description: Navigating a website using APIs is many times more efficient than an LLM thrash through tokens - so why isn't it more popular? Also in this newsletter: Fastify + OpenAPI, an HTTPS benchmarking tool, Voiden, and more! - Author: Alexander Karan - Tags: 📰 APIs You Won't Hate (The newsletter) While I still have so many mixed feelings about AI, one of its killer abilities is pulling information from across apps, documents, and internal tools to find what I need. Honestly, this saves me days at work, but is this the most efficient way? A lot of AI Agents don't use API's, they use a web/apps visual interface, which burns significantly more tokens, based on [recent testing](https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/05/07/ai-vision-agents-use-45x-more-tokens-than-apis-in-benchmark/5231346?ref=apisyouwonthate.com). Turns out a good API with good documentation is what you need. Thankfully, everyone is great at building APIs... 🫠 \-- Alexander ## Support APIs You Won't Hate When you become an member, you'll get access to members-only content while directly supporting our work. Your support helps us to keep making resources for the API community. [Become a member today](https://apisyouwonthate.com/#/portal) ## The API Roundup *API News, links, and tools from around the web* ### [Plow: a HTTP(S) benchmarking tool](https://github.com/six-ddc/plow?ref=apisyouwonthate.com) Benchmarking tools are great and even better when written in Go 😉. Plow uses fasthttp under the hood and produces real-time summary statistics, a histogram of execution time and calculates percentiles. Displaying on the web and in your terminal. Seriously, check this out: ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/b4/3e/b43eb8f8-cafd-49ee-ab1f-e4fe989d2890/content/images/2026/05/demo.gif) Gif of Plows real time output in the browser and terminal ### [Find My Way](https://github.com/delvedor/find-my-way?ref=apisyouwonthate.com) A remarkably fast HTTP router that's framework independent. How is it so fast? It uses a highly performant Radix Tree. If you are already using Fastify or Restify, then you may already be using it. Also comes with a nice [benchmark against other routers](https://github.com/delvedor/router-benchmark?ref=apisyouwonthate.com). ### [QUIC and HTTP/3 Come To Node.js (finally)](https://www.jasnell.me/posts/quic-comes-to-node?ref=apisyouwonthate.com) Who wants to use HTTP/2 anymore? We want HTTP/3, right? Well, it's now available in the `node:quic` module behind the flag `--experimental-quic`. James talks us through the module and how to use it. Be warned, it's highly experimental, but try it out today. ### [Testing in Ktor Server ](https://ktor.io/docs/server-testing.html?ref=apisyouwonthate.com) Every time I have to walk in the Java world, I reach for Ktor. Honestly, it's a delightful framework for building server applications in Kotlin. However, what about testing once you have that API set up? Thankfully, Ktor comes with a testing engine that runs the application call directly, without starting the full web server, helping you create fast-running tests. ### [The Indie Web Index API](https://theindex.fyi/api/docs?ref=apisyouwonthate.com) There's a rather cute [web index of indie sites](https://theindex.fyi/?ref=apisyouwonthate.com) covering tech blogs, search engines, RSS aggregators, and more. Recently, they also dropped a nice read-only API for pulling the same data. Not strictly API news, but it's wonderful to see projects like this exist in an increasingly closed-off web. --- ## APIs You Won't Hate Articles written and shared in our free [Slack community](https://slack.apisyouwonthate.com/?ref=apisyouwonthate.com). ### [Which of Fastify's OpenAPI Plugins is Best?](https://apisyouwonthate.com/blog/fastifys-openapi-plugins-which-are-best/) An in-depth test drive of several popular options for using Fastify with OpenAPI - written by Phil and chock full of good information. Fastify is a fantastic, popular, low-overhead Node.js framework, but how does the support for OpenAPI stack up? ### [Happy Birthday Mike](https://mikebifulco.com/?ref=apisyouwonthate.com) API's You Won't Hate was founded by Phil when he wrote his first book on APIs, but he quickly teaming up with Mike. It takes a lot of work to keep API's You Won't Hate running, covering our [website](https://apisyouwonthate.com/), [newsletter](https://apisyouwonthate.com/tag/newsletter/), [OpenAPI.tools](https://openapi.tools/?ref=apisyouwonthate.com) and [our community](https://join.slack.com/t/apisyouwonthate/shared%5Finvite/zt-3yh9f8p28-owgpmyHRX4tMNmNg~TG%5F7Q?ref=apisyouwonthate.com). Thank you for all your hard work, and happy birthday. --- ## From our Community Articles written and shared in our free [Slack community](https://slack.apisyouwonthate.com/?ref=apisyouwonthate.com). ### [Voiden, An Offline First API Client](https://github.com/VoidenHQ/voiden?ref=apisyouwonthate.com) Nikolas Dimitroulakis jumped into our Slack community to share his new open source API Client. Your API specs, tests, documentation and context all in executable markdown. Personally, I like that tagline Nikolas uses: "curl living in Obsidian files". Definitely worth checking out. --- Thanks so much to our members: **Kin L, Juxt, Alex R, Nolan S, Frank, Bill, James D, Rich, Ryan T, Umair, Abdelhadi, and Brandon**. Your support means the world to us! ✌️ Until next time, Alexander, Phil & Mike