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7 sourcesMight be a good use-case to use something like this extension to auto-build an API spec whilst browsing a website:
https://github.com/AndrewWalsh/openapi-devtools
In U.S. National Park Service APINot specific to the CPG realm, but I've had some very good luck working with the OpenAPI-devtools Chrome Extension[1] (previous discussion here on hackernews[2]) to discover the underlying APIs of various sites that I want to scrape data from.
[1] https://github.com/AndrewWalsh/openapi-devtools
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38012032
In Ask HN: Working with CPG Retail DataIndeed I have issue here.
Firefox maintain a library for unified extension API https://github.com/mozilla/webextension-polyfill
Their type definition for HAR request isn't exported https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped/blob/mast...
So I can't drop in replace the type on https://github.com/AndrewWalsh/openapi-devtools/blob/main/sr...
In Show HN: OpenAPI DevTools – Chrome extension that generates an API specAs a follow up, the algorithm that powers this makes use of the chrome.devtools.network API. Specifically it passes the Request object that is in the HAR 1.2 archive format.
So if you can pass the equivalent of that in Firefox/other browsers to the insert method and switch things up a bit, it should be relatively straightforward. I will think about pulling out the core logic into its own lib.
https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/devto...
https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/devto...
https://github.com/AndrewWalsh/openapi-devtools/blob/main/sr...
In Show HN: OpenAPI DevTools – Chrome extension that generates an API specThe criteria can be found below. There are no hard and fast rules, but the goal is to only include requests that you might otherwise find in a spec.
https://github.com/AndrewWalsh/openapi-devtools/blob/main/sr...
In Show HN: OpenAPI DevTools – Chrome extension that generates an API specShow HN: OpenAPI DevTools – Chrome extension that generates an API spec
Effortlessly discover API behaviour with a Chrome extension that automatically generates OpenAPI specifications in real time for any app or website.
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