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Building an API

Fast-track your API Design

Write an API in 30 minutes. Share it with your teammates or customers. Let them use the API mock to take your API for a spin--without writing any code. Iterate, rinse & repeat. Coding can wait until you know what your developers really need.

Design, Use, Implement—Schematics

API Blueprint

DNA for your API—powerful, open sourced and developer-friendly. The ease of Markdown combined with the power of automated mock servers, tests, validations, proxies, and code samples in your language bindings.

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# Message of the Day API
A simple [MOTD](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/motd) API. 

# Message [/messages/{id}]
This resource represents one particular message identified by its *id*.

## Retrieve Message [GET]
Retrieve a message by its *id*.

+ Response 200 (text/plain)

        Hello World!

## Delete Message [DELETE]
Delete a message.
**Warning:** This action **permanently** removes the message from the database.

+ Response 204

Server Mock

It's often hard to see how an API will be used until you have the chance to code against it. What wireframes are for UI design, a server mock is for API design. A quick way to prototype an API - even before you start writing code.

GitHub Sync

Two clicks will link Apiary to a repository of your choice. It’s up to you whether you make the API Blueprint private or public and let community contribute. We update API docs every time you commit, and we push commits to the repo whenever you update your documentation at Apiary. It's a virtuous cycle. We even support on-premise GitHub Enterprise!

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Command Line Tools

As nice as our online editor is, we know the command-line is what really counts. The Apiary CLI Gem lets you validate your API Blueprint, preview the documentation, publish it to Apiary—-or seamlessly automate Apiary goodness in your own workflow.

Sharing an API

An API Is Only As Good As Its Documentation

Time and time again, developers list quality documentation as the most important API feature. Good news! While you were building your API in Apiary, we've been building the documentation all along. Interactive, rich documentation your developers will love.

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Traffic Inspector

If things go wrong with your developers' API calls, helping them debug can be a royal pain—TCP dumps, Wireshark, installing local HTTP proxies… Not fun. But now your developers can just opt to send their API calls through Apiary's debugging proxy. We'll show them the exact data, down to HTTP level, and outline differences from API documentation, or even perform validations against your schema. If that doesn't help, they can always send you a bug report with all the detailed data attached.

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