OpenAPI-Search combines multiple OpenAPIs in a fast, organized, and searchable interface.

OpenAPIs are effectively closed if there isn't an accessible way to find and use them. Big commercial API directories such as https://rapidapi.com are currently dominating the search results and the # of APIs indexed, leading many developers to a non-open API gateway. Open Source is far behind.

The best OpenAPI directory as of yet is https://apis.guru but this doesn't even reach 10% of the amount of listed APIs and there is many room for improvement.

The vision of https://openapisearch.com is to make OpenAPIs truly open by making it accessible (easy to find what you're looking for) and improving listing quality.

Goals

Targeted improvements compared to https://apis.guru:

• Semantic search
• Related APIs
• Programmatic Registry
• Improved Website

Wishlist:

• E2E Testing of OpenAPIs
• AI Crawler for API Discovery
• AI Crawler to augment OpenAPI Metadata
  • Adds authentication + scope info
  • Adds useful links
  • Adds reviews
  • Adds pricing info, ratelimit info, etc

Non-goals

• Create a docs reference website like readme.com (there are many) - for this we're using stoplight now.
• Add weird custom logic that is non-standard to the OpenAPI. Instead, I aim to create a layer on top of openapis to improve the implementation of the standard. I'll use actionschema for this.

Sync process

This is the intended daily synchronisation process which ensures search results are up-to-date and of high quality. Besides filtering out invalid OpenAPIs, OpenAPISearch also generates useful metadata so enhance listing quality.

TODO

Calculated data

• Bring back openapiSummary without dependency
• Create info.x-generated-description for all items based on summary and other metadata.
• Create categories using LLM too (using x-generated-description and hardcoded categories)
• 10 related providers out of 50 using search + LLM
• Reindex all with generated description in data

MAKING ACTIONSCHEMA STABLE:

1. At semantic-operation-search, sync with metadata
2. ActionSchema Lucky search should work and be fast

For more ideas and wishes, see backlog