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API General Info

It is considered to be a good practice to include general information about your API into the specification: version number, license notes, contact data, links to documentation, and more. We particularly recommend doing this for publicly available APIs; as this will can increase user confidence in the services, your company provides. To specify the API metadata, you use properties of the top-level info object:

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openapi: 3.0.0
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info:
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# You application title. Required.
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title: Sample Pet Store App
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# API version. You can use semantic versioning like 1.0.0,
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# or an arbitrary string like 0.99-beta. Required.
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version: 1.0.0
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# API description. Arbitrary text in CommonMark or HTML.
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description: This is a sample server for a pet store.
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# Link to the page that describes the terms of service.
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# Must be in the URL format.
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termsOfService: http://example.com/terms/
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# Contact information: name, email, URL.
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contact:
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name: API Support
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email: support@example.com
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url: http://example.com/support
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# Name of the license and a URL to the license description.
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license:
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name: Apache 2.0
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url: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html
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# Link to the external documentation (if any).
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# Code or documentation generation tools can use description as the text of the link.
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externalDocs:
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description: Find out more
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url: http://example.com

The title and version properties are required, others are optional.

Reference

Info Object

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