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Overview

🧰 Installation

The easiest way to install spectral is to use either npm:

npm install -g @stoplight/spectral-cli

Or yarn:

yarn global add @stoplight/spectral-cli

There are also additional installation options.

đŸ’ģ Usage

1. Create a local ruleset

Spectral, being a generic YAML/JSON linter, needs a ruleset to lint files. A ruleset is a JSON, YAML, or JavaScript/TypeScript file (often the file is called .spectral.yaml for a YAML ruleset) that contains a collection of rules, which can be used to lint other JSON or YAML files such as an API description.

To get started, run this command in your terminal to create a .spectral.yaml file that uses the Spectral predefined rulesets based on OpenAPI, Arazzo or AsyncAPI:

echo 'extends: ["spectral:oas", "spectral:asyncapi", "spectral:arazzo"]' > .spectral.yaml

If you would like to create your own rules, check out the Custom Rulesets page.

2. Lint

Use this command if you have a ruleset file in the same directory as the documents you are linting:

spectral lint myapifile.yaml

Use this command to lint with a custom ruleset, or one that's located in a different directory than the documents being linted:

spectral lint myapifile.yaml --ruleset myruleset.yaml

📖 Documentation

Once you've had a look through the getting started material, some of these guides can help you become a power user.

ℹī¸ Support

If you need help using Spectral or have any questions, you can use GitHub Discussions, or visit the Stoplight Community Discord. These communities are a great place to share your rulesets, or show off tools that use Spectral.

If you have a bug or feature request, create an issue for it.

🌎 Real-World Rulesets

Stoplight has a set of Spectral rulesets that were created to help users get started with Stoplight's Style Guides. You can find them on API Stylebook, and you can download the source Spectral file by selecting a style guide on the project sidebar and selecting Export -> Spectral File(s) on the top-right. A few noteworthy style guides are:

There are also rulesets created by many companies to improve their APIs. You can use these as is to lint your OpenAPI descriptions, or use these as a reference to learn more about what rules you would want in your own ruleset:

Check out some additional style guides here:

⚙ī¸ Integrations

🏁 Help Others Utilize Spectral

If you're using Spectral for an interesting use case, create an issue with details on how you're using it. We'll add it to a list here. Spread the goodness 🎉

👏 Contributing

If you are interested in contributing to Spectral, check out CONTRIBUTING.md.

🎉 Thanks

📜 License

Spectral is 100% free and open-source, under Apache License 2.0.

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