drf-spectacular VS apispec

Compare drf-spectacular vs apispec and see what are their differences.

apispec

A pluggable API specification generator. Currently supports the OpenAPI Specification (f.k.a. the Swagger specification).. (by marshmallow-code)
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drf-spectacular apispec
9 1
2,067 1,128
- 1.8%
8.6 8.1
10 days ago 2 days ago
Python Python
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License MIT License
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drf-spectacular

Posts with mentions or reviews of drf-spectacular. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-17.

apispec

Posts with mentions or reviews of apispec. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-03-17.
  • 21 tools to document your Python project
    9 projects | dev.to | 17 Mar 2021
    apispec is not a framework, but a library that provides a Pythonic interface to OpenAPI constructs. It has multiple integrations with different tools and frameworks, including Flask, Pyramid, aiohttp, and Falcon. The list of integrations is available on the ecosystem page.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing drf-spectacular and apispec you can also consider the following projects:

drf-yasg - Automated generation of real Swagger/OpenAPI 2.0 schemas from Django REST Framework code.

flasgger - Easy OpenAPI specs and Swagger UI for your Flask API

django-ninja - 💨 Fast, Async-ready, Openapi, type hints based framework for building APIs

swagger-ui - Swagger UI is a collection of HTML, JavaScript, and CSS assets that dynamically generate beautiful documentation from a Swagger-compliant API.

flask-restx - Fork of Flask-RESTPlus: Fully featured framework for fast, easy and documented API development with Flask

flask-restful - Simple framework for creating REST APIs

Flask RestPlus - Fully featured framework for fast, easy and documented API development with Flask

pyswagger - An OpenAPI (fka Swagger) client & converter in python, which is type-safe, dynamic, spec-compliant.

flask-api - Browsable web APIs for Flask.

connexion - Connexion is a modern Python web framework that makes spec-first and api-first development easy.

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