Swagger UI Reviews & Product Details

Swagger UI is an open-source tool that provides a user-friendly interface for visualizing and interacting with APIs. It automatically generates interactive API documentation from OpenAPI specifications, allowing developers and users to explore API endpoints, parameters, and responses directly within a web browser. This facilitates a better understanding of the API's functionality and streamlines the development and integration processes. Key Features and Functionality: - Interactive Documentation: Automatically generates and displays API documentation in an interactive format, enabling users to test API endpoints directly from the browser. - Real-Time API Exploration: Allows users to send requests and view responses in real-time, aiding in the validation and debugging of APIs. - Support for OpenAPI Specification: Fully supports OpenAPI Specification, ensuring compatibility and standardization across API documentation. - Customization Options: Offers various customization options to tailor the look and feel of the documentation to match branding requirements. - Client SDK Generation: Facilitates the generation of client libraries in multiple programming languages, simplifying the process of building API clients. Primary Value and Problem Solved: Swagger UI addresses the challenge of creating and maintaining up-to-date API documentation by automating the process and providing an interactive platform for API exploration. This enhances developer productivity, improves API consumer experience, and ensures that documentation remains synchronized with the API's implementation. By offering a standardized and user-friendly interface, Swagger UI simplifies the complexities associated with API integration and fosters better collaboration between development teams and API consumers.

Seller

SmartBear

Discussions

Swagger UI Community

Languages Supported

English

Solution Type

Best-of-Breed

Overview by

Emily Duquette

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Perceived Cost

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Verified User in Insurance

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

3/5/2022

"UI based tool to test and verify the API's and alternative to other API tools"

5/5

What do you like best about Swagger UI?

Built with an excellent user-friendly user interface and fulfills the jobs of the API testing, an alternative to the other tools like postman and soap-UI, which are a bit tricky to handle and need some technical background. It has pre-defined user-friendly attributes displayed on the UI for the users to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Swagger UI?

The feature I dislike the most is the logging off or disconnection from the swagger tool every 5 mins due to the authentication of the tool. Need to authenticate the device for every idle time of not more than 5 mins. Unnecessary attributes are displayed on the screen, which makes the UI bit clumsy to use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nuno A.

Frontend Developer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/18/2022

"Swagger is very nice, and in my opinion, is the best and most simple way to analyze API's."

5/5

What do you like best about Swagger UI?

A simple and intuitive interface that makes it very easy to understand the APIs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Swagger UI?

I think it's missing some button to copy the request or download it, but no big deal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mohit p.

Software Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/23/2022

"Good tool for your API purpose"

4/5

What do you like best about Swagger UI?

Swagger UI is a good tool to document all your APIs. And it also helps in sharing the APIs with other developers across the organization. It has a few good features like sharing the link which has all the APIs and you can also run the API in the link itself and check the response. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Swagger UI?

Unlike its competitors, it doesn't have an environment set up to declare variables. And also if we compare the UI with its competitors, UI could have been much better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Neha U.

Project Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/15/2021

"All time best project integrated tool to test APIs"

5/5

What do you like best about Swagger UI?

On a simple note this tool got all the necessary services to be provided to test the self developed APIs and I particularly test REST APIs which is developed using Java. Its unique feature which can be integrated directly with the project service to test the developed APIs on the go and it's well organised structure where we can differentiate based on the various controllers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Swagger UI?

Apart from its advantages it has got lot of limitations. Like other api testing tools which provides features like bulk upload testing, parallel execution and editing the headers on the go. These features are lack in this swagger Ui. It is very poor with its documentation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rushabh M.

Web Developer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

Originally submitted 4/28/2021

"Gives good insight on API and documentation"

5/5

What do you like best about Swagger UI?

Calling API straight away. No need to install a postman Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Swagger UI?

Can't add some specific descriptions of some of the fields Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Laxman T.

Technology Lead

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

2/13/2022

"Swagger UI Review"

5/5

What do you like best about Swagger UI?

Swagger Can be easy to learn, test APIs and it is Open source . It can be easily integrated with Java and nodeJS backend technologies . We can deploy to AWS Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Swagger UI?

It does not have environment configuration and the user interface Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Swagger UI:

I highly recommend using of swagger UI for test APIs. We use it for applications built on Java and Nodejs applications Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Swagger UI solving and how is that benefiting you?

Documentation and testing apis is relatively easier. It is free, and it has a large user community to provide solutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/29/2021

"Extremely helpful for developers with a pretty UI"

5/5

What do you like best about Swagger UI?

I love how easy it is to integrate Swagger UI in any application base. Also it provides a very good UI which looks amazing and with so little effort. It is very seamless. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Swagger UI?

I think there should be more example-based documentation of it- sometimes for a new user understanding a few things can be difficult only because of less examples Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

2/25/2022

"Swagger in a etl pipeline"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Swagger UI?

Interface is pretty dynamic and platform agnostic making it easier to use on any operating system Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Swagger UI?

It doesn't have options to configure different environments at once like,if want to test something QA environment and then in production environment then u have to change the URL so ability to select environment as variable is not an option Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Swagger UI:

Well a pretty great interactive API documentation if your environment integrates a lot of APIs so it's not that much configurable Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Swagger UI solving and how is that benefiting you?

Creating an ETL data pipeline with SSIS and Camunda and to integrate real-time data integration with CRM Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

Originally submitted 11/10/2020

"Swagger UI - Solution to interact and visualize API's"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Swagger UI?

I like the flexibility that anyone be it your end consumers or your development team anyone can easily use it. We can easily navigate through UI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Swagger UI?

I cant think of any dislike as you learn it becomes easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Swagger UI:

I would recommend Swagger UI to the people who are more involved with API design and development as it will ease you life. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Swagger UI solving and how is that benefiting you?

I have used Swagger UI for API design and development. It helped me with code modularity and error handling while API development. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

ercument y.

ERP Software Development Specialist

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/18/2021

"web api documentation tool"

5/5

What do you like best about Swagger UI?

It's really nice that swagger provides me with an interface where I can easily present my webservices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Swagger UI?

it really gets a bit difficult to document in complex projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Swagger UI:

I suggest you to use it for your source security. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Swagger UI solving and how is that benefiting you?

I can easily share the contents of my web services with user interfaces without going into too much detail. In this way, they can meet their needs without getting detailed information about my project. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.