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Totally Pythonic, OpenAPI Based customizable documentation pages for SwaggerUI, ReDoc, RapiDoc, Elements, Scalar.

Keep in mind, that this package doesn't generate OpenAPI Spec, it just renders the pages with the given configuration.


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Features

Gimme an OpenAPI Spec, leave the rest to me...

  • Framework agnostic.
  • Zero dependencies, just Python standard library.
  • Fully typed.
  • Highly extensible.

Progress

Documentation Page Config
SwaggerUI ✔️
ReDoc ✔️
RapiDoc ✔️
Elements ✔️
Scalar ✔️

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Installation

pip install openapipages

Usage

I know it looks a bit boilerplate but it's all straight-forward. The .render() method returns the HTML as a string. Thanks to this design, you can extend and configure the pages as you wish (e.g. add extra logic to restrict access to the page).

FastAPI

The include_in_schema parameter is set to False in each endpoint to avoid including these endpoints in the OpenAPI Spec.

from fastapi import FastAPI
from fastapi.responses import HTMLResponse
from openapipages import Elements, RapiDoc, ReDoc, Scalar, SwaggerUI

# Disable the built-in /redoc page so we can make a custom one.
app = FastAPI(redoc_url=None)


@app.get("/")
def root() -> dict[str, str]:
    return {"Hello": "World"}


@app.get("/swaggerui", response_class=HTMLResponse, include_in_schema=False)
def get_swaggerui() -> str:
    return SwaggerUI(title="Swagger UI").render()


@app.get("/redoc", response_class=HTMLResponse, include_in_schema=False)
def get_redoc() -> str:
    return ReDoc(title="ReDoc").render()


@app.get("/scalar", response_class=HTMLResponse, include_in_schema=False)
def get_scalar() -> str:
    return Scalar(title="Scalar").render()


@app.get("/elements", response_class=HTMLResponse, include_in_schema=False)
def get_elements() -> str:
    return Elements(title="Elements").render()


@app.get("/rapidoc", response_class=HTMLResponse, include_in_schema=False)
def get_rapidoc() -> str:
    return RapiDoc(title="RapiDoc").render()

Litestar

The include_in_schema parameter is set to False in each endpoint to avoid including these endpoints in the OpenAPI Spec.

from litestar import Litestar, MediaType, get
from openapipages import Elements, RapiDoc, ReDoc, Scalar, SwaggerUI

openapi_url = "/schema/openapi.json"


@get("/")
def root() -> dict[str, str]:
    return {"Hello": "World"}


@get("/swaggerui", media_type=MediaType.HTML, include_in_schema=False)
def get_swaggerui() -> str:
    return SwaggerUI(title="Swagger UI", openapi_url=openapi_url).render()


@get("/redoc", media_type=MediaType.HTML, include_in_schema=False)
def get_redoc() -> str:
    return ReDoc(title="ReDoc", openapi_url=openapi_url).render()


@get("/scalar", media_type=MediaType.HTML, include_in_schema=False)
def get_scalar() -> str:
    return Scalar(title="Scalar", openapi_url=openapi_url).render()


@get("/elements", media_type=MediaType.HTML, include_in_schema=False)
def get_elements() -> str:
    return Elements(title="Elements", openapi_url=openapi_url).render()


@get("/rapidoc", media_type=MediaType.HTML, include_in_schema=False)
def get_rapidoc() -> str:
    return RapiDoc(title="RapiDoc", openapi_url=openapi_url).render()


app = Litestar([root, get_swaggerui, get_redoc, get_scalar, get_elements, get_rapidoc])

Motivation

TL;DR - I don't want to copy and paste it again...

Developer Experience

Several API Documentation tools are ready to use at your fingertips with a standard interface.

No more copying and pasting the same thing from one project to another. Import the package and use it!

Configuration

Here is a pull request made to the FastAPI repo. This was the point I understood the configuration was limited and it wouldn't change...

Also, the author's answer to this PR shows that we won't be seeing more alternative documentation tools in the future.

Alternatives

Here is another pull request made to the FastAPI repo. It brings Scalar support, but it's not approved/merged yet and I think it will stay that way thanks to the previous PR.

Standardisation

A standard interface for many API Documentation Interfaces with configuration features.

Lately, OpenAPI Spec-based Documentation tools have become popular in the Python community. We see a lot of projects (FastAPI, Litestar, APISpec, flasgger, SpecTree, Connexion, etc) offering support for OpenAPI Specification out of the box.

Litestar has support for SwaggerUI, ReDoc, RapiDoc, and Elements and FastAPI has support for SwaggerUI, and ReDoc but what is next? Will the next one be enough?

They all have one thing in common, some HTML (as Python string or a file) templated with the given configuration.

Do you see where I am going?

I want openapipages to be SQLAlchemy of OpenAPI Spec-based Documentation tools.

One interface for many! And of course Framework agnostic... So you can use it in your FastAPI, Litestar projects, or any other project that generates OpenAPI specifications.

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Projects

Issues, PRs, and Discussions

Author

Disclaimer

FastAPI and Litestar projects and the two pull requests mentioned above inspired me to create this package.

License

openapipages is distributed under the terms of the MIT license.