OpenAPI.Tools

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This project was created by Matthew Trask and Phil Sturgeon with contributions from the community. If you need help, hit Matt or Phil up on twitter.

Current OpenAPI Version

3.0.2 - Link to the specification

Security

By poking around your OpenAPI specification, some tools can look out for attack vectors you might not have noticed.

Name	Language	v2	v3	GitHub
oas-tools - NodeJS module to manage RESTful APIs defined with OpenAPI 3.0 Description over express servers, including security validations	Node.js	❌	✅
API Contract Security Audit - Upload OpenAPI file, get detailed report with located vulnerabilities, possible attack scenarios, ways to remediate.	SaaS	✅	❌

Converters

Various tools to convert to and from OpenAPI standards. Useful for working with various API formats.

Name	Language	v2	v3
Apimatic Transformer - Transform API Descriptions to and from RAML, API Blueprint, OAI v2/v3, WSDL, etc.	SaaS	✅	✅
API Flow - Convert from and to multiple formats. Linking to Phil's fork because the original is completely broken	JavaScript	✅	👷
Google Gnostic - Compile OpenAPI descriptions into equivalent Protocol Buffer representations	Go	✅	✅
swagger2openapi - Upgrade specs from OpenAPI v2.0 to v3.0, bundling into one mega file or respecting $refs	Node.js	✅	✅
OAS RAML Converter - Converts between OAS and RAML API specifications	Node.js	✅	✅
OData OpenAPI - OData 4.0 to OpenAPI 3.0.0 converter	XSLT	✅	✅
OpenAPI Filter - Filter internal components from OpenAPI Descriptions	Node.js	✅	✅
OData.OpenAPI - Convert an Edm (Entity Data Model) to OpenAPI 3.0	.NET	❌	✅
pyswagger - Client & converter in Python, which is type-safe, dynamic, spec-compliant.	Python	✅	👷
odata2openapi - OData 4.0 to OpenAPI 2 converter	Node.js	✅	❌
avantation - Generate OpenAPI 3.x specification from HAR.	TypeScript	❌	✅
OpenAPI Generator - A template-driven engine to generate documentation, API clients and server stubs in different languages by parsing your OpenAPI Description (community-driven fork of swagger-codegen)	Java	✅	✅
go-swagger - Everything all in one. Parser, validator, generates spec from code, or code from spec!	Go	✅	👷

Documentation

Generators to help build API documentation based off a variety of formats and standards.

Name	Language	v2	v3
ReadMe - Build beautiful, personalized, interactive developer hubs	SaaS	✅	✅
APIMatic Developer Experience Portal - Customizable developer portals packed with language specific documentation, client libraries, code samples, an API console and much more.	SaaS	✅	✅
Kong Enterprise Edition - Highly customizable developer portal with developer onboarding, integrated with the Kong API Gateway	Lua	✅	✅
LucyBot DocGen - Generate a customizable website, with API documentation, console, and interactive workflows, from an OpenAPI spec	JavaScript	✅	✅
openapi-viewer - Browse and test a REST API described with the OpenAPI 3.0 Specification	Vue.js	❌	✅
openapi-ui - React based OpenAPI 3.0+ documentation generator	React.js	❌	✅
ReDoc - OpenAPI/Swagger-generated API Reference Documentation	React.js	✅	✅
widdershins - Generate Slate/Shins markdown from OpenAPI 2.0/3.0.x	Node.js	✅	✅
openapi3-generator - Use your API OpenAPI 3 Description to generate code, documentation, and literally anything you need.	Node.js	❌	✅
MrinDoc - Open API spec viewer.	Vue.JS	✅	✅
RapiDoc - Custom Element to view OpenAPI spec.	Custom Element	✅	✅
RapiPdf - Custom Element to generate PDF from OpenAPI spec.	Custom Element	✅	✅
Stoplight - Create beautiful, customizable, interactive API documentation generated from your OpenAPI Description, integrated with the Stoplight platform	SaaS	✅	✅
Bump - Bump generates elegant documentations and changelogs from your OpenAPI specifications. Git diff, for your API.	SaaS	✅	✅
oas-tools - NodeJS module to manage RESTful APIs defined with OpenAPI 3.0 Description over express servers, including security validations	Node.js	❌	✅

Text Editors

Text editors to help build API docs.

Name	Language	v2	v3
VSCode/OpenAPI (Swagger) editor - OpenAPI (Swagger) 2.0/3.0.x plugin for Visual Studio Code - new file templates, navigation, intellisense, code snippets	Any	✅	✅
KaiZen-OpenAPI-Editor - Full-featured Eclipse editor for OpenAPI 2.0 and 3.0, also available on Eclipse Marketplace.	Java	✅	✅
Atom/linter-swagger - This plugin for Atom Linter will lint Swagger 2.0 specifications or OpenAPI 3.0, both JSON and YAML using swagger-parser node package.	JavaScript	✅	✅
Swagger Editor - Design, describe, and document your API on the first open source editor fully dedicated to OpenAPI-based APIs.	Node.js	✅	✅
SwaggerHub - API design and documentation platform to improve collaboration, standardize development workflow and centralize their API discovery and consumption.	SaaS/On-Premise NodeJS	✅	✅
Senya Editor - Design API specifications fast and effectively in your favorite JetBrains IDE.	Java	✅	✅
VSCode/openapi-lint - OpenAPI (Swagger) 2.0/3.0.x intellisense, validator and linter for Visual Studio Code	Node.js	✅	✅

GUI Editors

Visual editors to help build API docs.

Name	Language	v2	v3
RepreZen API Studio - RepreZen API Studio is an integrated workbench that brings API-first design into focus for your whole team, harmonizes your API designs, and generates APIs that click into client apps.	Java	✅	✅
Apicurio Studio - A standalone API design studio that can be used to create new or edit existing API designs.	TypeScript	✅	✅
Stoplight - Stoplight is the Complete OpenAPI Specification Toolkit that leverages your OpenAPI Description documents to drive the entire API development process	SaaS	✅	👷
OpenAPI-GUI - OpenAPI-GUI is a GUI for creating and editing OpenAPI version 3.0.x JSON/YAML descriptions.	JavaScript	❌	👷
Hackolade - A schema-centric visual editor for Swagger and OpenAPI, from the pioneer in data modeling for NoSQL databases.	ReactJS	✅	✅

Mock Servers

Services and platforms to speed up the testing and development of your APIs.

Name	Language	v2	v3
Connexion - OpenAPI First framework for Python on top of Flask with automatic endpoint validation & OAuth2 support	Python	✅	✅
Prism - Turn any OAI file into an API server with mocking, transformations, validations, and more.	cli	✅	✅
Sandbox - SaaS, self-hosted, or CLI tool for turning OpenAPI (and other) descriptions into a mock server, where you can modify behaviour, simulate downtime, and any other nonsense you can think of thanks to a built-in code editor!	SaaS / Java	✅	✅
Microcks - Mocking and testing platform for API and microservices. Turn your OAI contract examples into ready to use mocks. Use examples to test and validate implementations according schema elements.	Self-hosted / SaaS	✅	✅
API Sprout - Lightweight, blazing fast, cross-platform OpenAPI 3 mock server with validation	cli / Docker	❌	✅
MockLab - SaaS platform to upload your spec to create a mock server	SaaS	✅	✅
Fakeit - Create mock server from OpenAPI 3 specification with random response generation and request validation.	cli / Docker	❌	✅
yii2-app-api - Generate Server side API code with routing, models, data validation and database schema from an OpenAPI description file. Based on Yii Framework.	PHP	❌	✅

Server implementations

Easily create and implement resources and routes for your APIs.

Name	Language	v2	v3
Vert.x Web Api Contract - Create API endpoints with Vert.x 3 and OpenAPI 3 with automatic requests validation	Java, Kotlin, JavaScript, Groovy, Ruby, Ceylon & Scala	❌	✅
Vert.x Web API Service - Create API service proxies using event bus with request/response validation	Java	❌	✅
BaucisJS + baucis-openapi3 - Create REST resources with persistence on MongoDB and expose OpenAPI v.3 contracts	JavaScript	❌	✅
BaucisJS + baucis-swagger2 - Create REST resources with persistence on MongoDB and expose OpenAPI v.2 contracts	JavaScript	✅	❌
@smartrecruiters/openapi-first - Initializes your API express application with description in OpenAPI 3.0 format using provided middlewares (parsers, validators, controller, defaults setting) or custom ones	Node.js	❌	✅
openapi-backend - Build, Validate, Route, and Mock using OpenAPI specification. Framework-agnostic	Node.js	❌	✅
OpenAPI Enforcer Middleware - An express middleware that makes it easy to write web services that follow an OpenAPI specification by leveraging the tools provided in the openapi-enforcer package.	Node.js	✅	✅
MicroTS - Code generator - from OpenAPI specification generates TypeScript project with Docker.	Node.js	✅	✅
API Platform - REST and GraphQL framework to build modern API-driven projects	PHP	✅	✅
Mojolicious::Plugin::OpenApi - Mojolicious::Plugin::OpenAPI is a plugin for Mojolicious framework that add routes and input/output validation to your Mojolicious application based on a OpenAPI (Swagger) specification. Currently v2 is very well supported, while v3 should be considered EXPERIMENTAL.	Perl	✅	✅
Fusio - Open source API management platform	PHP	❌	✅
yii2-app-api - Generate Server side API code with routing, models, data validation and database schema from an OpenAPI description file. Based on Yii Framework.	PHP	❌	✅
oas-tools - NodeJS module to manage RESTful APIs defined with OpenAPI 3.0 Description over express servers, including security validations	Node.js	❌	✅

Miscellaneous

Tools to load documents and resolve references.

Name	Language	v2	v3
OpenAPI Server Code Generator (oapi-codegen) - Generate a web service using the [Echo](https://github.com/labstack/echo) framework from an Open API v3 specification	Go	❌	✅
Sway - A library that simplifies OpenAPI integrations/tooling.	JavaScript	✅	👷
openapi-diff - Utility for comparing two OpenAPI specifications.	Java	❌	✅
$ oas (CLI) - Generate OAS files from code comments and easily host them ($ npm install oas -g)	JavaScript	✅	✅
openapi-cli-tool - Can list up defined API paths and bundle multi-file into one. Supports multiple file extensions.	Python	❌	✅

Parsers

Serialize and migrate API docs between versions while validating specs and docs.

Name	Language	v2	v3
oas-tools - NodeJS module to manage RESTful APIs defined with OpenAPI 3.0 Description over express servers, including security validations	Node.js	❌	✅
swagger-parser - OpenAPI Description parser which is still using the name "Swagger" because they're stubborn. New versions are v3 only, older versions support v1.x/v2.	Java	✅	✅
BigstickCarpet/swagger-parser - Swagger/OpenAPI 2.0 and 3.0 parser and validator. Can also bundle multiple files into one via `$ref`.	Node.js	✅	✅
KaiZen OpenAPI Parser - High-performance Parser, Validator, and Java Object Model for OpenAPI 3.x	Java	❌	✅
OpenAPI-TS - TS Model & utils for OpenAPI 3.0.x contracts	TypeScript	❌	✅
kin-openapi - A Go library for handling OpenAPI 3.0 specifications	Go	❌	✅
php-openapi - A PHP library for manipulating and validating OpenAPI 3.0 Descriptions	PHP	❌	✅
Object Oriented OpenAPI Specification - An object oriented approach to generating OpenAPI Descriptions, implemented in PHP	PHP	❌	✅
OpenAPI3-Rust - Rust serialization library for OpenAPI v3	Rust	❌	✅
psx-api - Parse and generate API specification formats	PHP	✅	✅
Microsoft/OpenAPI.NET - C# based parser with OpenAPI Description validation and migration support from V2	.NET	✅	✅
oas_parser - A Ruby parser for Open API 3.0+ descriptions.	Ruby	❌	✅
openapi3 - An OpenAPI 3 Specification client, and validator, covering both schema validation and limited data validation for Python 3.	Python	❌	✅
Spot - A concise, developer-friendly way to describe your API contract.	TypeScript	✅	✅

Schema Validators

Validate your API schema quickly and easily with these tools.

Name	Language	v2	v3
Speccy - Lint to enforce quality rules on your OpenAPI specifications	CLI	❌	✅
BigstickCarpet/swagger-cli - A handy cli tool for validating JSON or YAML files schema files that respects $ref	Node.js / CLI	✅	✅
openapi-spec-validator - OpenAPI Description validator	Python	✅	✅
Sway - A library that simplifies OpenAPI integrations/tooling.	JavaScript	✅	👷
oval - CLI for (O)penAPI Specification document (val)idation.	JavaScript	✅	👷
Spectral - A flexible JSON object linter with out of the box support for OpenAPI Descriptions	TypeScript/JavaScript	✅	✅
OpenAPI Enforcer - Tool to 1) Validate your OAS document, 2) serialize, deserialize, and validate incoming requests and outgoing responses, 3) simplify response building, and 4) producing mock data. Exensible via plugins.	Node.js	✅	✅
oas-tools - NodeJS module to manage RESTful APIs defined with OpenAPI 3.0 Description over express servers, including security validations	Node.js	❌	✅
php-openapi - A PHP library for manipulating and validating OpenAPI 3.0 Descriptions	PHP	❌	✅

Data Validators

Tools to help you validate your API data.

Name	Language	v2	v3
Sway - A library that simplifies OpenAPI integrations/tooling.	JavaScript	✅	👷
OpenAPI validator - Library that checks response against OpenAPI schema, based on request path and method	PHP	❌	✅
express-ajv-swagger-validation - Express middleware which validates request body, headers, path parameters and query parameters according to an OpenAPI Description	Node.js	✅	✅
committee - Validation middleware for Rack server. This gem validates request and response using an OpenAPI Description. And convert parameter string to specific Ruby object (e.g. convert datetime string to DateTime class).	Ruby	✅	✅
OpenAPI Enforcer - Tool to 1) Validate your OAS document, 2) serialize, deserialize, and validate incoming requests and outgoing responses, 3) simplify response building, and 4) producing mock data. Exensible via plugins.	Node.js	✅	✅
OpenAPI Validation Middleware - a PSR-7 and PSR-15 middleware to validate requests and responses against your OpenAPI spec	PHP	❌	✅
oas-tools - NodeJS module to manage RESTful APIs defined with OpenAPI 3.0 Description over express servers, including security validations	Node.js	❌	✅
kin-openapi - A Go library for handling OpenAPI 3.0 specifications	Go	❌	✅
openapi-psr7-validator - It validates PSR-7 messages against OpenAPI specifications	PHP	❌	✅

Testing

Quickly execute API request and validate responses on the fly through command line or GUI interfaces.

Name	Language	v2	v3
Dredd - Language-agnostic command-line tool for validating API description document against backend implementation of the API	Javascript	✅	✅
OpenAPI validator - Library that checks response against OpenAPI schema, based on request path and method	PHP	❌	✅
OpenAPI Enforcer - Tool to 1) Validate your OAS document, 2) serialize, deserialize, and validate incoming requests and outgoing responses, 3) simplify response building, and 4) producing mock data. Exensible via plugins.	Node.js	✅	✅
hikaku - A library that tests if the implementation of a REST-API meets its specification.	Kotlin	❌	✅
Swagger Inspector - Swagger Inspector is a free online tool to quickly execute any API request, validate its responses and generate a corresponding OpenAPI Description.	Self-hosted/SaaS	✅	✅
Assertible - Import an OpenAPI specification into Assertible to generate tests that validate JSONSchema responses and status codes on every endpoint.	SaaS	✅	✅

SDK Generators

Quickly generate documentation, descriptions, and clients by creating a SDK.

Name	Language	v2	v3
OpenAPI Generator - A template-driven engine to generate documentation, API clients and server stubs in different languages by parsing your OpenAPI Description (community-driven fork of swagger-codegen)	Java	✅	✅
APIMatic CodeGen - Bring in your API description (OAI v2/v3, RAML, API Blueprint, WSDL, etc.) to generate fully functional SDKs in over 10 languages.	SaaS	✅	✅
janephp/open-api - Generate a PHP Client API (PSR7 compatible) given a OpenAPI specification.	PHP	✅	✅
go-swagger - Everything all in one. Parser, validator, generates spec from code, or code from spec!	Go	✅	👷
guardrail - Principled code generation from OpenAPI Descriptions	Scala, Java, ...	✅	✅