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<img alt="Redoc logo" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Redocly/redoc/main//docs/images/redoc.png" width="400px" />
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# Generate interactive API documentation from OpenAPI definitions
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[](https://www.npmjs.com/package/redoc) [](https://github.com/Redocly/redoc/blob/main/LICENSE)
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[](https://cdn.redoc.ly/redoc/latest/bundles/redoc.standalone.js) [](https://www.npmjs.com/package/redoc) [](https://www.jsdelivr.com/package/npm/redoc)
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## About Redoc
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Redoc is an open source tool for generating documentation from OpenAPI (formerly Swagger) definitions.
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By default Redoc offers a three-panel, responsive layout:
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- The left panel contains a search bar and navigation menu.
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- The central panel contains the documentation.
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- The right panel contains request and response examples.
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## Live demo
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If you want to see how Redoc renders your OpenAPI definition,
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you can try it out online at https://redocly.github.io/redoc/.
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A version of the Swagger Petstore API is displayed by default.
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To test it with your own OpenAPI definition,
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enter the URL for your definition and select **TRY IT**.
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## Redoc features
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- Responsive three-panel design with menu/scrolling synchronization
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- Support for OpenAPI 3.1, OpenAPI 3.0, and Swagger 2.0
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- [Multiple deployment options](https://redocly.com/docs/redoc/)
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- Interactive interface so your users can try the API immediately
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- Ability to integrate your API introduction into the side menu
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- High-level grouping in side menu with the [`x-tagGroups`](https://redocly.com/docs/api-reference-docs/specification-extensions/x-tag-groups/) specification extension
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- [Simple integration with `create-react-app`](https://redocly.com/docs/redoc/quickstart/react/)
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- Code samples support (with vendor extension) <br>
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## Usage
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Redoc is provided as a CLI tool (also distributed as a Docker image), HTML tag, and React component.
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### Generate documentation from the CLI
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If you have Node installed, quickly generate documentation using `npx`:
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```
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npx @redocly/cli build-docs openapi.yaml
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```
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The tool outputs by default to a file named `redoc-static.html` that you can open in your browser.
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> [Redocly CLI](https://github.com/Redocly/redocly-cli/) does more than docs; check it out and add linting, bundling, and more to your API workflow.
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### Add an HTML element to the page
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Create an HTML page, or edit an existing one, and add the following within the body tags:
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```html
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<redoc spec-url="http://petstore.swagger.io/v2/swagger.json"></redoc>
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<script src="https://cdn.redoc.ly/redoc/latest/bundles/redoc.standalone.js"> </script>
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```
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Open the HTML file in your browser, and your API documentation is shown on the page.
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Add your own `spec-url` to the `<redoc>` tag; this attribute can also be a local file. The JavaScript library can also be installed locally using `npm` and served from your own server, see the [HTML deployment documentation](https://redocly.com/docs/redoc/deployment/html/) for more details.
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### More usage options
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Check out the [deployment documentation](./deploment/index/md) for more options, and detailed documentation for each.
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## Redoc vs. Reference
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Redoc is Redocly's community-edition product. Looking for something more?
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We also offer [hosted API reference documentation](https://redocly.com/docs/api-registry/guides/api-registry-quickstart/)
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with additional features including:
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* Try-it console
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* Automated code samples
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* Pagination
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* Extra theme options
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### Documentation and resources
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- [Reference docs](https://redocly.com/docs/api-reference-docs/getting-started/) - we take care of the hosting
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- [Redoc](https://redocly.com/docs/redoc/) - detailed documentation for this open source project (also in the `docs/` folder)
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- [Command-line interface to bundle your docs into a web-ready HTML file](https://redocly.com/docs/cli/commands/build-docs/)
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- API linting, bundling, and much more with open source [Redocly CLI](https://redocly.com/docs/cli)
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## Showcase
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A sample of the organizations using Redocly tools in the wild:
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- [Rebilly](https://api-reference.rebilly.com/)
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- [Docker Engine](https://docs.docker.com/engine/api/v1.25/)
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- [Zuora](https://www.zuora.com/developer/api-reference/)
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- [Discourse](http://docs.discourse.org)
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- [Commbox](https://www.commbox.io/api/)
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- [APIs.guru](https://apis.guru/api-doc/)
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- [BoxKnight](https://www.docs.boxknight.com/)
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_Pull requests to add your own API page to the list are welcome_
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## Configuration
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Redoc is highly configurable, see the [configuration documentation](docs/config.md) for details.
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### OpenAPI specification extensions
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Redoc uses the following [specification extensions](https://redocly.com/docs/api-reference-docs/spec-extensions/):
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* [`x-logo`](docs/redoc-vendor-extensions.md#x-logo) - is used to specify API logo
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* [`x-traitTag`](docs/redoc-vendor-extensions.md#x-traitTag) - useful for tags that refer to non-navigation properties like Pagination, Rate-Limits, etc
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* [`x-codeSamples`](docs/redoc-vendor-extensions.md#x-codeSamples) - specify operation code samples
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* [`x-examples`](docs/redoc-vendor-extensions.md#x-examples) - specify JSON example for requests
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* [`x-nullable`](docs/redoc-vendor-extensions.md#x-nullable) - mark schema param as a nullable
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* [`x-displayName`](docs/redoc-vendor-extensions.md#x-displayname) - specify human-friendly names for the menu categories
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* [`x-tagGroups`](docs/redoc-vendor-extensions.md#x-tagGroups) - group tags by categories in the side menu
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* [`x-servers`](docs/redoc-vendor-extensions.md#x-servers) - ability to specify different servers for API (backported from OpenAPI 3.0)
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* [`x-ignoredHeaderParameters`](docs/redoc-vendor-extensions.md#x-ignoredHeaderParameters) - ability to specify header parameter names to ignore
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* [`x-additionalPropertiesName`](docs/redoc-vendor-extensions.md#x-additionalPropertiesName) - ability to supply a descriptive name for the additional property keys
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* [`x-summary`](docs/redoc-vendor-extensions.md#x-summary) - for Response object, use as the response button text, with description rendered under the button
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* [`x-extendedDiscriminator`](docs/redoc-vendor-extensions.md#x-extendedDiscriminator) - in Schemas, uses this to solve name-clash issues with the standard discriminator
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* [`x-explicitMappingOnly`](docs/redoc-vendor-extensions.md#x-explicitMappingOnly) - in Schemas, display a more descriptive property name in objects with additionalProperties when viewing the property list with an object
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## Releases
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**The README for the `1.x` version is on the [v1.x](https://github.com/Redocly/redoc/tree/v1.x) branch.**
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All the 2.x releases are deployed to npm and can be used with Redocly-cdn:
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- particular release, for example, `v2.0.0`: https://cdn.redoc.ly/redoc/v2.0.0/bundles/redoc.standalone.js
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- `latest` release: https://cdn.redoc.ly/redoc/latest/bundles/redoc.standalone.js
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Additionally, all the 1.x releases are hosted on our GitHub Pages-based CDN **(deprecated)**:
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- particular release, for example `v1.2.0`: https://rebilly.github.io/ReDoc/releases/v1.2.0/redoc.min.js
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- `v1.x.x` release: https://rebilly.github.io/ReDoc/releases/v1.x.x/redoc.min.js
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- `latest` release: https://rebilly.github.io/ReDoc/releases/latest/redoc.min.js - points to latest 1.x.x release since 2.x releases are not hosted on this CDN but on unpkg.
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## Development
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see [CONTRIBUTING.md](.github/CONTRIBUTING.md)
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