Scribe

v2 is now out! See the migration guide.

Generate API documentation for humans from your Laravel codebase. Here's what the output looks like.

Looking to document your Node.js APIs? Check out Scribe for JS.

Features

Pretty HTML documentation page, with included code samples and friendly text
Markdown source files that can be edited to modify docs
Extracts body parameters information from Laravel FormRequests
Safely calls API endpoints to generate sample responses, with authentication and other custom configuration supported
Supports generating responses from Eloquent API Resources or Fractal Transformers
Supports Postman collection and OpenAPI (Swagger) spec generation
Included UI components for additional styling
Easily customisable with custom views
Easily extensible with custom strategies

Scribe is a fork of mpociot/laravel-apidoc-generator, so see the migration guide if you're coming from there.

Check out the documentation at ReadTheDocs.

PHP 7.2.5 and Laravel/Lumen 5.8 or higher are required.

composer require --dev knuckleswtf/scribe

Publish the config file by running:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Knuckles\Scribe\ScribeServiceProvider" --tag=scribe-config

This will create a scribe.php file in your config folder.

When using Lumen, you will need to run composer require knuckleswtf/scribe instead (no --dev.
Register the service provider in your bootstrap/app.php:

$app->register(\Knuckles\Scribe\ScribeServiceProvider::class);

Copy the config file from vendor/knuckleswtf/scribe/config/scribe.php to your project as config/scribe.php. Then add to your bootstrap/app.php:

$app->configure('scribe');

Contributing is easy! See our contribution guide.