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How does it compare to mitmmitmproxy2swagger?

https://github.com/alufers/mitmproxy2swagger

This might be more useful than the OP. This thing lets you translate HAR to Swagger…

My usual process is Dev tools -> Copy as CURL -> delete unnecessary headers -> translates to requests in python (these days I just use ChatGPT) -> wrap in python sdk for managing auth etc.

The OP’s correlation features are really nice though.

The first and immediate difference for me is the ability to recall the name. I can recall Postman/Insomina fine, and now for API Parrot. I'm never going to be able to recall mitmproxy2swagger.

Unfortunately, names matter.

Thanks 1a527dd5.

Ha! Nicely played. That was out of purely laziness. I don't like using one handle across sites, so I take the first 8 chars of (New-Guid).ToString() and then dump it in my password manager.

https://xkcd.com/1105/

a real pitty that this was not xkcd 1111

I often forget the name of things, sometimes even the big ones. GitHub search is one of the primary ways I rediscover them. "reverse-engineer API" returns mitmproxy2swagger as the third result, and this is how I found it last time I needed it.

It is a bit frustrating when a project on GitHub doesn't have good tags or searchable keywords, making it harder to find.

As someone who uses mitmproxy and swagger quite often, I actually think the name isn't so bad. I haven't even looked at the readme but I already know what it does, how to run it and what output to expect.

Probably a dumb question but if my web app uses graphql, how would I go about with the swagger generation?(since its just one endpoint)

Thank you for sharing this though, I was looking for a tool like this :)

Have you tried something like GraphQL playground before? https://github.com/graphql/graphql-playground

There's other tools out there that can generate similar docs or playgrounds, given you have a schema/spec of some type.

Why would you use swagger/openapi? My understanding is that graphql has its own schema system that's supposed to be returned by the server when the client requests it.

https://graphql.org/learn/schema/

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