marshmallow-code/apispec
A pluggable API specification generator. Currently supports the OpenAPI Specification (f.k.a. the Swagger specification).. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
75/100
- Activity 95
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 4337
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 30
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
1219 stars · 201 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
A pluggable Python library that generates OpenAPI (Swagger) specifications, supporting OpenAPI versions 2 and 3. It is framework-agnostic with built-in marshmallow schema support and utilities for parsing docstrings.
Use cases
- generate an OpenAPI spec from a Flask app
- document REST APIs with OpenAPI 3
- generate swagger documentation from marshmallow schemas
- extract API specs from docstrings
- build OpenAPI definitions for a Python web framework
When to choose
- you use marshmallow schemas and want OpenAPI docs generated from them
- you need a framework-agnostic OpenAPI spec generator in Python
- you want to document Flask or similar REST APIs
When to avoid
- you need a full interactive documentation UI rather than spec generation
- your API is not Python-based
- you want automatic spec generation without any schema or docstring annotations
Facets
library · maturity active
api-documentation documentation serialization apis documentation web-development backend python cross-platform openapi swagger marshmallow flask -schema spec-generation
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/marshmallow-code/apispec · fetched 2026-08-28 · d330697441a8
- registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/apispec/json · fetched 2026-08-29 · 6072443b7246
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| marshmallow-code/apispec | main | 75 |
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