openapi-tui

Terminal UI to list, browse and run APIs defined with OpenAPI v3.0 and v3.1 spec.

Usage

❯ openapi-tui --help
This TUI allows you to list and browse APIs described by the openapi specification.

Usage: openapi-tui --input <PATH>

Options:
  -i, --input <PATH>  Input file or url, in json or yaml format with openapi specification
  -h, --help          Print help
  -V, --version       Print version

Examples

# open local yaml file
❯ openapi-tui -i examples/stripe/spec.yml

# open local json file
❯ openapi-tui -i examples/petstore.json

# open remote file
❯ openapi-tui -i https://raw.githubusercontent.com/github/rest-api-description/main/descriptions-next/api.github.com/api.github.com.yaml

Demo

demo

Other Feature Animations

## Nested Components ![nested-refrences](static/nested-refs.gif) ## Fullscreen ![fullscreen](static/fullscreen.gif) ## Webhooks ![webhooks](static/webhooks.gif) ## Filter ![filter](static/filter.gif) ## Call Endpoints ![call](static/call.gif)

Installation

Install from source:

❯ cargo install openapi-tui

Or download pre-built artifact from release page.

Docker

Just run the application with docker.

# open local file
❯ docker run --rm -ti -v$(pwd)/examples:/opt zaghaghi/openapi-tui -i /opt/petstore.json

# open remote file
❯ docker run --rm -it zaghaghi/openapi-tui -i https://raw.githubusercontent.com/github/rest-api-description/main/descriptions-next/api.github.com/api.github.com.yaml

Distro Packages

Packaging status

[![Packaging status](https://repology.org/badge/vertical-allrepos/openapi-tui.svg)](https://repology.org/project/openapi-tui/versions)

Arch Linux

You can install using pacman as follows:

❯ pacman -S openapi-tui

NixOS

You can install the openapi-tui package directly with the following command:

nix profile install github:zaghaghi/openapi-tui

You can also install openapi-tui by adding it to your configuration.nix file.

# flake.nix

{
  inputs.openapi-tui.url = "github:zaghaghi/openapi-tui";
  # ...

  outputs = {nixpkgs, ...} @ inputs: {
    nixosConfigurations.<your-hostname> = nixpkgs.lib.nixosSystem {
      specialArgs = { inherit inputs; }; # this is the important part
      modules = [
        ./configuration.nix
      ];
    };
  }
}

Then, add openapi-tui to your configuration.nix

# configuration.nix

{inputs, pkgs, ...}: {
  environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
    inputs.openapi-tui.packages.${pkgs.system}.openapi-tui
  ];
}

Keybindings

Key	Action
`→`, `l`	Move to next pane
`←`, `h`	Move to previous pane
`↓`, `j`	Move down in lists
`↑`, `k`	Move up in lists
`1...9`	Move between tabs
`]`	Move to next tab
`[`	Move to previous tab
`f`	Toggle fullscreen pane
`g`	Go in nested items in lists
`q`	Quit
`/`	Filter apis
`:`	Run commands
`Backspace`, `b`	Get out of nested items in lists

Commands Main Page

Command	Description
`q`	Quit
`request`, `r`	Go to request page
`history`	Request history

Commands Request Page

Command	Description
`q`	Quit
`send`, `s`	Send request
`query`, `q`	Add or remove query strings. sub-commands are `add` or `rm`. e.g. `query add page`
`header`, `h`	Add or remove headers. sub-commands are `add` or `rm`. e.g. `header add x-api-key`
`request`, `r`	Load request payload. e.g. `request open /home/hamed/payload.json`
`response`, `s`	Save response payload e.g/ `response save /home/hamed/result.json`

Implemented Features

[X] Viewer
[X] OpenAPI v3.1
[X] Display Webhooks
[X] Display Info and Version
[X] Filter APIs
[X] Remote API specification
[X] Merge Parameters Based on in
[X] Pane Fullscreen Mode
[X] Nested Components
[X] Status Line
[X] Phone Page
[X] Call History
[X] Request Plain Editor
[X] Header Input (No Validation)
[X] Path Input (No Validation)
[X] Calling
[X] Plain Response Viewer (Status + Headers + Body)
[X] History viewer
[X] Refactor footer, add flash footer messages
[X] Import request body file
[X] Save response body and header
[X] Command history with ↑/↓
[X] Support array query strings
[X] Suppert extra headers

Backlog

[ ] Schema Types (openapi-31)
[ ] Display Key Mappings in Popup
[ ] Read Spec from STDIN
[ ] Request progress bar

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