flask-restful VS apispec

Compare flask-restful 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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flask-restful apispec
5 1
6,769 1,132
0.3% 1.1%
1.5 8.3
28 days ago 1 day ago
Python Python
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License MIT License
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flask-restful

Posts with mentions or reviews of flask-restful. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-25.

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 flask-restful and apispec you can also consider the following projects:

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

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

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

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

flask-restless - NO LONGER MAINTAINED - A Flask extension for creating simple ReSTful JSON APIs from SQLAlchemy models.

drf-spectacular - Sane and flexible OpenAPI 3 schema generation for Django REST framework.

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

eve - REST API framework designed for human beings

flask-api - Browsable web APIs for Flask.