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ScanAPI

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Why This Project Is Awesome

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• Industry Standard - The go-to tool for a specific use case
• Rising Star - 5000+ stars in < 2 years, significant adoption
• Hidden Gem - Exceptional quality, solves niche problems elegantly

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ScanAPI is a focused and opinionated tool for automated API validation, designed to cover a gap that is not well addressed by traditional API testing tools: validating APIs continuously in real-world scenarios (production, staging, monitoring, CI/CD).

Instead of being a generic testing framework, ScanAPI provides a declarative and versioned approach to define API checks, enabling teams to treat API validations as code and configuration, with full support for version control, reviews and collaboration.

ScanAPI has been consistently adopted by teams to solve problems such as:

• Continuous API monitoring
• Contract and schema validation
• Regression detection
• Third-party API reliability
• Data quality checks in pipelines

All with a simple, lightweight and extensible design.

✨ ScanAPI was selected as one of only 71 projects worldwide to receive funding from the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund, recognizing its technical quality, security relevance, and impact on the open source ecosystem.

The project was also featured on the official GitHub Podcast episode “Inside the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund – Episode 10”, where ScanAPI is discussed as part of the program: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmCSHr12CO0 ✨

How It Differs

While most API testing tools focus on test suites for development, ScanAPI is designed around runtime API validation and governance:

• It is declarative, not code-heavy.
• It supports version control of API checks, making validations auditable and reviewable.
• It is built for continuous execution (cron, CI/CD, monitoring).
• It targets real-world API reliability, not just unit/integration tests.
• It fits naturally into observability and data validation pipelines, not only QA workflows.

This makes ScanAPI closer to a validation and monitoring layer for APIs than a traditional testing framework, filling a niche between testing, observability, configuration management and data quality tools.

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