getkin/kin-openapi

Health v2 · maintenance only

Adoption not part of the score

3284 stars · 507 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

A Go library implementing the OpenAPI 2.0, 3.0, 3.1, and (partially) 3.2 specifications. It provides parsing, conversion, and validation of OpenAPI documents and is widely used by Go API tooling.

Use cases

• parse openapi 3 spec files in go
• validate requests against an openapi schema
• convert swagger 2.0 to openapi 3
• load and validate openapi yaml or documents
• build go tools that read openapi specs
• validate openapi documents for correctness

When to choose

• you need a mature, widely-adopted OpenAPI implementation in Go
• you must support multiple OpenAPI versions including 3.1 and 3.2
• you are building code generators, mock servers, or validators on top of OpenAPI

When to avoid

• you need full OpenAPI 3.2 support, which is only partial
• you work outside the Go ecosystem
• you only need simple JSON Schema validation without OpenAPI semantics

Facets

library · maturity active

parser serialization form-handling api-framework developer-tools apis developer-tools documentation web-development go cross-platform openapi openapi3 swagger spec-validation api-documentation

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