openapi-spec-validator

Validates an entire OpenAPI document against the OpenAPI Specification.

Primary use cases

  • Verify that an OpenAPI document conforms to the OpenAPI Specification
  • Lint OpenAPI documents in CI to catch breaking changes early
  • Use as a building block inside higher-level OpenAPI tooling

Spec coverage

  • Swagger 2.0
  • OpenAPI 3.0
  • OpenAPI 3.1
  • OpenAPI 3.2
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openapi-spec-validator

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Validates an entire OpenAPI document against the OpenAPI Specification.

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Related libraries

Related libraries in this workflow

These projects commonly pair with openapi-spec-validator when you move from spec authoring to schema validation to runtime enforcement.

  • openapi-core

    Once your spec passes validation, use openapi-core to enforce it at runtime in your application.

  • openapi-schema-validator

    openapi-spec-validator uses openapi-schema-validator to validate Schema Objects within the document.