openapi-directory VS http-spec

Use APIs.gurufor exploring well-documented OpenAPI files. For example, imagine you are interested in integrating a weather API. By searching for "weather" on APIs.guru, you find several options.

Furthermore, since we can split the generated code into multiple parts based on tag filtering, we can also create different SDKs from different resources or even publicly available APIs. There is an extensive list of publicly available OpenAPI specifications on SwaggerHub, RapidAPI and APIs.guru.

Maybe you'd like to integrate with APIs.guru?

https://apis.guru

In this specific case, I'm auto-publishing (now fully automatically, once a month) a package that wraps content from elsewhere bundling it with some utilities to make that useful in JS and available via NPM. For cases like this it's useful to have a patch update once a month that just updates the upstream content & republishes.

- Crawl API repositories like apis.guru

This should go without saying, but the types inside your API specification should be specific in order to be useful. The main way I see this appear is that some specification generators seem to default to "string" for everything, even if something else makes sense. In an analysis of 1154 specifications from OpenAPI directory, I found that 60% of the field types were strings. Many of these were instances that made sense, such as IDs or names, but many were misused types: for example, there was a year value encoded with type "string," and a boolean value with type "string" and enum "true" or "false". Using too-broad types such as strings can make it harder to understand the specification, and decrease the effectiveness of certain tools.

I haven’t used it but have skimmed through it, but https://apis.guru has collected information on lots of APIs. You might find something interesting.

Try the integration designer with your OpenAPI documents. If you don’t have any document handy, we prepared a few examples for you, or you can find more OpenAPI documents on APIs.guru.

apis.guru is a nice site with APIs listed for many orgs.

However, we do not need to write the specification by hand, as there are GUI editors to perform that task. We show a couple of examples of Spotlight, which provides an easy-to-use interface:

We use Stoplight Studio https://stoplight.io/ to design APIs, one of the advantages of Stoplight Studio is the Visual interface, it generates OpenAPI specs from the design and supports OpenAPI v3, allowing users to create, edit, and view API designs using the OpenAPI standard.

I'm sorry, but you have completely misunderstood the purpose of Open API.

It is not a specification to define your business logic classes and objects -- either client or server side. Its goal is to define the interface of an API, and to provide a single source of truth that requests and responses can be validated against. It contains everything you need to know to make requests to an API; code generation is nice to have (and I use it myself, but mainly on the server side, for routing and validation), but not something required or expected from OpenAPI

For what it's worth, my personal preferred workflow to build an API is as follows:

1. Build the OpenAPI spec first. A smaller spec could easily be done by hand, but I prefer using a design tool like Stoplight [0]; it has the best Web-based OpenAPI (and JSON Schema) editor I have encountered, and integrates with git nearly flawlessly.

2. Use an automated tool to generate the API code implementation. Again, a static generation tool such as datamodel-code-generator [1] (which generates Pydantic models) would suffice, but for Python I prefer the dynamic request routing and validation provided by pyapi-server [2].

3. Finally, I use automated testing tools such as schemathesis [3] to test the implementation against the specification.

[0] https://stoplight.io/

[1] https://koxudaxi.github.io/datamodel-code-generator/

[2] https://pyapi-server.readthedocs.io

[3] https://schemathesis.readthedocs.io

One of the best tools out there for API design and governance https://stoplight.io/ you can also use the open source tool (also from Stoplight) called Spectral https://stoplight.io/open-source/spectral

Stoplight is a platform for designing, documenting, and testing APIs. Its "Mocks" feature allows you to create mock versions of your API for testing and development purposes. In addition to the mock feature, Stoplight also includes tools for API design, documentation, and testing, making it a comprehensive platform for API development.

Stoplight

JSON visualizer JSON validator YAML validator Collaborative Design & Documentation for APIs