
- Open Api Description Markdown Example
- Swagger Multiline Description
- Openapi Description Markdown Tool
These options may be applied as additional-properties (cli) or configOptions (plugins). Refer to configuration docs for more details.
Installation pip install open-api-schemas-to-markdown Usage. The package provides a command line tool. $ oa-to-md -h usage: oa-to-md -h inputfilepath outputfilepath locale positional arguments: inputfilepath The OpenAPI 3 YAML filepath outputfilepath The desired output filepath of the Markdown file locale Locale to use when generating the Markdown file. Parsing OpenAPI to Markdown. Once widdershins is installed, run the following command in the console prompt. Replace openapi.yaml with the path to your OpenAPI definition in YAML or JSON. Widdershins openapi.yaml -o openapi.md. The command stores the resulting MarkDown file as openapi.md. Customizing the output with flags.

Option | Description | Values | Default |
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allowUnicodeIdentifiers | boolean, toggles whether unicode identifiers are allowed in names or not, default is false | false |
disallowAdditionalPropertiesIfNotPresent | If false, the 'additionalProperties' implementation (set to true by default) is compliant with the OAS and JSON schema specifications. If true (default), keep the old (incorrect) behaviour that 'additionalProperties' is set to false by default. | - false
- The 'additionalProperties' implementation is compliant with the OAS and JSON schema specifications.
- true
- Keep the old (incorrect) behaviour that 'additionalProperties' is set to false by default.
| true |
ensureUniqueParams | Whether to ensure parameter names are unique in an operation (rename parameters that are not). | true |
legacyDiscriminatorBehavior | Set to false for generators with better support for discriminators. (Python, Java, Go, PowerShell, C#have this enabled by default). | - true
- The mapping in the discriminator includes descendent schemas that allOf inherit from self and the discriminator mapping schemas in the OAS document.
- false
- The mapping in the discriminator includes any descendent schemas that allOf inherit from self, any oneOf schemas, any anyOf schemas, any x-discriminator-values, and the discriminator mapping schemas in the OAS document AND Codegen validates that oneOf and anyOf schemas contain the required discriminator and throws an error if the discriminator is missing.
| true |
prependFormOrBodyParameters | Add form or body parameters to the beginning of the parameter list. | false |
sortModelPropertiesByRequiredFlag | Sort model properties to place required parameters before optional parameters. | true |
sortParamsByRequiredFlag | Sort method arguments to place required parameters before optional parameters. | true |
#IMPORT MAPPING
#INSTANTIATION TYPES
Type/Alias | Instantiated By |
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#LANGUAGE PRIMITIVES
#RESERVED WORDS
#FEATURE SET
#Client Modification Feature
Name | Supported | Defined By |
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BasePath | ✗ | ToolingExtension |
Authorizations | ✗ | ToolingExtension |
UserAgent | ✗ | ToolingExtension |
MockServer | ✗ | ToolingExtension |
#Data Type Feature

Name | Supported | Defined By |
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Custom | ✗ | OAS2,OAS3 |
Int32 | ✓ | OAS2,OAS3 |
Int64 | ✓ | OAS2,OAS3 |
Float | ✓ | OAS2,OAS3 |
Double | ✓ | OAS2,OAS3 |
Decimal | ✓ | ToolingExtension |
String | ✓ | OAS2,OAS3 |
Byte | ✓ | OAS2,OAS3 |
Binary | ✓ | OAS2,OAS3 |
Boolean | ✓ | OAS2,OAS3 |
Date | ✓ | OAS2,OAS3 |
DateTime | ✓ | OAS2,OAS3 |
Password | ✓ | OAS2,OAS3 |
File | ✓ | OAS2 |
Array | ✓ | OAS2,OAS3 |
Maps | ✓ | ToolingExtension |
CollectionFormat | ✓ | OAS2 |
CollectionFormatMulti | ✓ | OAS2 |
Enum | ✓ | OAS2,OAS3 |
ArrayOfEnum | ✓ | ToolingExtension |
ArrayOfModel | ✓ | ToolingExtension |
ArrayOfCollectionOfPrimitives | ✓ | ToolingExtension |
ArrayOfCollectionOfModel | ✓ | ToolingExtension |
ArrayOfCollectionOfEnum | ✓ | ToolingExtension |
MapOfEnum | ✓ | ToolingExtension |
MapOfModel | ✓ | ToolingExtension |
MapOfCollectionOfPrimitives | ✓ | ToolingExtension |
MapOfCollectionOfModel | ✓ | ToolingExtension |
MapOfCollectionOfEnum | ✓ | ToolingExtension |
#Documentation Feature
Name | Supported | Defined By |
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Readme | ✗ | ToolingExtension |
Model | ✓ | ToolingExtension |
Api | ✓ | ToolingExtension |
#Global Feature
Open Api Description Markdown Example
Name | Supported | Defined By |
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Host | ✓ | OAS2,OAS3 |
BasePath | ✓ | OAS2,OAS3 |
Info | ✓ | OAS2,OAS3 |
Schemes | ✗ | OAS2,OAS3 |
PartialSchemes | ✓ | OAS2,OAS3 |
Consumes | ✓ | OAS2 |
Produces | ✓ | OAS2 |
ExternalDocumentation | ✓ | OAS2,OAS3 |
Examples | ✓ | OAS2,OAS3 |
XMLStructureDefinitions | ✗ | OAS2,OAS3 |
MultiServer | ✗ | OAS3 |
ParameterizedServer | ✗ | OAS3 |
ParameterStyling | ✗ | OAS3 |
Callbacks | ✓ | OAS3 |
LinkObjects | ✗ | OAS3 |
#Parameter Feature
Name | Supported | Defined By |
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Path | ✓ | OAS2,OAS3 |
Query | ✓ | OAS2,OAS3 |
Header | ✓ | OAS2,OAS3 |
Body | ✓ | OAS2 |
FormUnencoded | ✓ | OAS2 |
FormMultipart | ✓ | OAS2 |
Cookie | ✓ | OAS3 |
#Schema Support Feature
Name | Supported | Defined By |
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Simple | ✓ | OAS2,OAS3 |
Composite | ✓ | OAS2,OAS3 |
Polymorphism | ✓ | OAS2,OAS3 |
Union | ✗ | OAS3 |
#Security Feature
Name | Supported | Defined By |
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BasicAuth | ✓ | OAS2,OAS3 |
ApiKey | ✓ | OAS2,OAS3 |
OpenIDConnect | ✗ | OAS3 |
BearerToken | ✓ | OAS3 |
OAuth2_Implicit | ✓ | OAS2,OAS3 |
OAuth2_Password | ✓ | OAS2,OAS3 |
OAuth2_ClientCredentials | ✓ | OAS2,OAS3 |
OAuth2_AuthorizationCode | ✓ | OAS2,OAS3 |
Swagger Multiline Description
#Wire Format Feature
Name | Supported | Defined By |
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JSON | ✓ | OAS2,OAS3 |
XML | ✓ | OAS2,OAS3 |
PROTOBUF | ✗ | ToolingExtension |
Custom | ✗ | OAS2,OAS3 |