ApiCat

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ApiCat is an AI-powered API development tool that aims to assist developers in building APIs more quickly and efficiently through automation and intelligence. By utilizing ApiCat, developers can save a significant amount of time in the development and management of APIs.

You can visit our Online Demo to try it out.

Features

• API documentation: You can easily create and manage your API documentation
• AI support: You can use AI to help you quickly generate API documentation, models, responses, and other content
• Mock: The user-friendly Mock feature makes API development faster and more efficient
• Iteration: Having a clear iteration plan enables the team to define the scope of API changes, ensuring efficiency and quality in each development task.
• Data import and export: API data can be imported in its entirety into any software that supports OpenAPI or Swagger, and can also be reverse imported into ApiCat.

Installation and deployment

Five installation and deployment methods

1. Download the executable file for deployment

Step 1: Download the pre-packaged executable file

Download the pre-packaged executable file release address

Step 2: Start the service

# Start the service with default configuration or load environment variable configuration
./apicat
# Start the service by using a configuration file
./apicat -c setting.example.yaml

2. DockerHub install

Step 1: Pull image

docker pull natuo/apicat:latest

Step 2: Start the service

docker run --name apicat-server -p 8000:8000 -d --link mysql natuo/apicat:latest -c /app/setting.default.yaml

3. Install on Zeabur

Sign up for a Zeabur account Zeabur, find ApiCat one-click deployment on the Marketplace.

4. Compile the Docker image locally

Step 1: Pull code from github

git clone https://github.com/apicat/apicat.git

Step 2: Build a local image

docker build -t apicat:latest .

Step 3: Start the service

docker run --name apicat-server -p 8000:8000 -d --link mysql natuo/apicat:latest -c /app/setting.default.yaml

5. Install and deploy from source code

Step 1: Pull code from github

git clone https://github.com/apicat/apicat.git

Step 2: Compile the front-end code

cd frontend
pnpm i
pnpm build

Step 3: Compile the backend code

go mod tidy
go build

Step 4: Start the service

# Start the service with default configuration or load environment variable configuration
./apicat
# Start the service by using a configuration file
./apicat -c setting.example.yaml

Configuration options explanation

You can start ApiCat and configure it with custom settings in two ways:

1. Read the configuration file

See the backend/config/setting.example.yaml

2. Load environment variable

Variable name	Description	Example
APICAT_APP_NAME	APP name	ApiCat
APICAT_APP_HOST	Bound IP address, Default: 0.0.0.0	0.0.0.0
APICAT_APP_PORT	Bound port, Default: 8000	8000
APICAT_LOG_PATH	Log file path, Output to stdout is empty	logs/
APICAT_LOG_LEVEL	Log level	debug
APICAT_DB_HOST	MySQL IP address, required	127.0.0.1
APICAT_DB_PORT	MySQL Port, required	3306
APICAT_DB_USER	MySQL username, required	root
APICAT_DB_PASSWORD	MySQL password, required	123456
APICAT_DB_NAME	MySQL database name, required	apicat
APICAT_OPENAI_SOURCE	OpenAI API source(openai, azure)	openai
APICAT_OPENAI_KEY	OpenAI Key	sk-xxxxxx
APICAT_OPENAI_ENDPOINT	OpenAI API url, Valid when APICAT_OPENAI_SOURCE is set to "azure"	https://xxxxxx.openai.azure.com/

Contact

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Screenshot

License

MIT