SMRTR ProgrammingApr 22, 2025Daily.dev

Reverse Engineering the APIs Behind Everything With Mitmproxy

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Mitmproxy is a powerful open-source tool for reverse engineering APIs behind web and mobile applications. It offers command line and web-based interfaces, community add-ons, and the ability to generate OpenAPI specifications from traffic. By routing all traffic through Mitmproxy on a MacBook, users can quickly map out their API landscape and understand how both their own and third-party applications use APIs. This tool helps reveal how tech companies utilize user data and track technology usage connected to the internet.

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