OpenAPI/Swagger Specification Validator

Validate an OpenAPI/Swagger API specification against the OpenAPI Specification using the swagger.io online validator.

The validation performed by this module differs from the validation performed by swagger-cli. swagger-cli uses swagger-parser for validation, which is a pure JavaScript implementation that can be used offline. This module relies on the validator hosted at swagger.io which uses Java-based parser and validator implementations. Therefore, it requires Internet access to use and requires significantly less code to be installed as a result.

Introductory Example

To use swagger-spec-validator from the command line, simply invoke it with the specification files to validate as arguments:

$ swagger-spec-validator swagger.yaml

If no arguments are given, the specification will be read from stdin.

swagger-spec-validator can be used as a library as follows:

const swaggerSpecValidator = require('swagger-spec-validator');
swaggerSpecValidator.validateFile('swagger.yaml')
  .then((result) => {
    if (Object.keys(result).length > 0) {
      console.log('Invalid.');
    } else {
      console.log('Valid!');
    }
  })
  .catch(err => console.error('Unable to validate: ' + err));

Installation

This package can be installed using npm, either globally or locally, by running:

npm install swagger-spec-validator

Recipes

More examples can be found in the test specifications.

API Docs

To use this module as a library, see the API Documentation.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome and very much appreciated! Please add tests to cover any changes and ensure npm test passes.

If the desired change is large, complex, backwards-incompatible, can have significantly differing implementations, or may not be in scope for this project, opening an issue before writing the code can avoid frustration and save a lot of time and effort.

License

This package is available under the terms of the MIT License.