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Automated Testing and Documentation for your REST API

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A library for your API that provides:

  • Automated Integration Testing
  • Automated Live Documentation

Given an API specification, written in YAML/JSON format, ScanAPI hits the specified endpoints, runs the test cases, and generates a detailed report of this execution - which can also be used as the API documentation itself.

With almost no Python knowledge, the user can define endpoints to be hit, the expected behavior for each response and will receive a full real-time diagnostic report of the API!

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Quick Start

Requirements

How to install

$ pip install scanapi

Install with pipx (isolated CLI)

If pip install scanapi collides with the dependencies in your project's environment, install it with pipx instead. pipx gives ScanAPI its own virtual environment and still puts the scanapi command on your PATH:

$ pipx install scanapi

This is the recommended path when you want ScanAPI as a standalone CLI rather than a project dependency.

Basic Usage

You will need to write the API's specification and save it as a YAML or JSON file. For example:

endpoints:
  - name: scanapi-demo # The API's name of your API
    path: http://demo.scanapi.dev/api/v1 # The API's base url
    requests:
      - name: list_all_users # The name of the first request
        path: users/ # The path of the first request
        method: get # The HTTP method of the first request
        tests:
          - name: status_code_is_200 # The name of the first test for this request
            assert: ${{ response.status_code == 200 }} # The assertion

And run the scanapi command

$ scanapi run <file_path>

Then, the lib will hit the specified endpoints and generate a scanapi-report.html file with the report results.

An overview screenshot of the report. A screenshot of the report showing the request details.

Documentation

The full documentation is available at scanapi.dev

Tutorial

Get started with ScanAPI by following our step-by-step tutorial.

Examples

You can find complete examples at scanapi/examples!

This tutorial helps you to create integration tests for your REST API using ScanAPI

Watch the video

Contributing

Collaboration is super welcome! Check out our contribution guide to get started. Every little bit of help counts! Feel free to create new GitHub issues and interact here.

Let's build it together 🚀🚀

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