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API Blueprint

A powerful high-level API design language for web APIs
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What is API Blueprint?

API Blueprint is simple and accessible to everybody involved in the API lifecycle. Its syntax is concise yet expressive. With API Blueprint you can quickly design and prototype APIs to be created or document and test already deployed mission-critical APIs.
API Blueprint is a tool in the API Tools category of a tech stack.
API Blueprint is an open source tool with 8.6K GitHub stars and 2.1K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to API Blueprint's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses API Blueprint?

Companies
35 companies reportedly use API Blueprint in their tech stacks, including SparkPost, Labs, and ADEXT.

Developers
46 developers on StackShare have stated that they use API Blueprint.
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