USPS Web Tools Opensource Documentation
Community driven project to improve the developer experience
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Sidney Maestre

USPS Web Tools Opensource Documentation - Community driven project to improve the developer experience

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We crafted a USPS Web Tools OpenAPI 3.0 specification from existing PDF docs, then used the spec to generate modern documentation and a Postman public workspace to explore the APIs

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We looked at the USPS Web Tools site and started thinking of ways to improve the experience. Now, we can’t change the APIs themselves, but thought perhaps an open-source project that leverages new tools could make a difference. API documentation often ranks number one for how developers evaluate a technology and the USPS Web Tools APIs reference docs are only available as PDFs, so we decided to start there. You can read about the challenges we faced creating an OpenAPI spec for an API that was released over a decade ago. https://www.lob.com/blog/usps-we... This is my first Product Hunt Launch ... so be gentle with me ;-)