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The world's most widely used API description standard

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What is OpenAPI?

The OpenAPI Specifications provides a formal standard for describing HTTP APIs.

This allows people to understand how an API works, how a sequence of APIs work together, generate client code, create tests, apply design standards, and much, much more.

OpenAPI Simple API Lifecycle

3 Benefits of OpenAPI

As the most widely used API description language:

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Commonality of use and support bytool vendors,meaning flexibility in toolvendor selection.

Commonality of knowledge bydevelopersandengineers,meaning flexibility instaffing.

Abstraction of API description facilitating adoption ofinnovations in API behaviors
whileavoiding total rewrites.

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