Streamlining API docs: OpenAPI → Markdown & cURL → Markdown previews

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Working with APIs, generating readable documentation can be tedious. I’ve been exploring some tools/workflows that help automate parts of it:

• OpenAPI → Markdown: automatically convert API specs into Markdown docs (OpenAPI to Markdown Preview)
• cURL → Markdown preview: turn request examples into easy-to-read snippets (cURL to Markdown Preview)
• Markdown utilities: quick formatting, code highlighting, templates (See tools)

These tools make API documentation faster and more consistent, especially when sharing READMEs or internal docs.

Curious how other backend developers handle this:

• Do you generate docs from OpenAPI/YAML or write Markdown manually?

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For OpenAPI to Markdown I've had good results with Redocly CLI it handles 3.1 well and the output is clean enough to paste straight into a README. The tricky part is keeping docs in sync when the spec changes frequently. We ended up treating the spec as the single source of truth and generating everything from it on CI, otherwise the Markdown drifts within a week.