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API documentation is a collection of references, tutorials, documents, or videos that help developers use your API governed by the Open API Specification(OAS). An API(Application programming interface) is a data-sharing technique that helps applications communicate with each other. Not the best definition in the world but I like to think of an API as a dynamic messenger. They can store your message, process it, and also deliver it to multiple people. They are also responsible for the security of your message until it reaches you.
There are a lot of tools in the market used to produce great documentation; Swagger, Postman, Doxygen, ApiDoc, and Document360 just to name a few. However, most developers remain oblivious to the tools developed for reconnaissance which when you interact with them are useful to developers as well.
mitmweb is a component of the mitmproxy project and it will serve to intercept the requests that will be channeled to the listener port opened at 8080
Next, we'll need to configure the requests source for which we'll use Postman
Next, click on the gear icon at the top right corner of the postman interface to access the settings
On the settings pop up select proxy and then toggle use custom proxy configuration Here we'll add the proxy listener port so that Postman can channel all request through out custom proxy from mitmproxy
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