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Turn HTTP Traffic into OpenAPI with Optic
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This article is sponsored by Optic, in that they're paying for our time to review the tool, but they're not paying for what we write. If it's rubbish we'll let you know.Documenting an API with OpenAPI can take a long time when you're starting from scratch. Some API developers use the API Design-first strategy to make their OpenAPI first, then they use that to easily make mocks and docs. API developers who missed that step are now stuck playing catch up, for their OpenAPI-based documentation/dev-portals. Some tool vendors are trying to throw AI at it, but there's a better way: capturing HTTP traffic.I wrote about creating OpenAPI from HTTP traffic with Akita, but a new tool has popped up that's making things even easier: Optic CLI. I used this tool for a client of Green Turtle, to create an OpenAPI of their legacy black box API that nobody understood, then used that OpenAPI to spec out the work for their new API. Super handy, and since then they've made ...
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