If you look at the Django REST Framework project you can see this kind of behavior by default. For example: http://rest.ep.io/pygments/ http://rest.ep.io/pygme

If you look at the Django REST Framework project you can see this kind of behavior by default. For example: http://rest.ep.io/pygments/ http://rest.ep.io/pygments/ Notice the OPTIONS button on the top right of the browse-able interface. For example: $ curl -X OPTIONS http://rest.ep.io/pygments/ http://rest.ep.io/pygments/ {"fields": { "lexer": "ChoiceField", "code": "CharField", "style": "ChoiceField", "linenos": "BooleanField", "title": "CharField"}, "parses": ["application/json", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded", "multipart/form-data", "application/xml", "application/yaml"], "renders": ["application/json", "application/json-p", "text/html", "application/xhtml+xml", "text/plain", "application/xml", "application/yaml"], "name": "Pygments Root", "description": "\nThis example demonstrates a simple RESTful Web API around the awesome pygments library.\nThis top level resource is used to create highlighted code snippets, and to list all the existing code snippets.\n" }