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Version: Laravel: 4.x

Customising features

Try It Out​

By default, your generated docs will include an API tester that lets users test your endpoints in their browser. You can set the URL that requests will be sent to with the try_it_out.base_url config item, or turn it off with try_it_out.enabled.

config/scribe.php
'try_it_out' => [
    'enabled' => true,
    'base_url' => 'http://my.staging.url',
],
important

For Try It Out to work, you'll need to make sure CORS is enabled on your endpoints.

note

If you're using Laravel Sanctum, or another token-based SPA authentication system on your API, you'll need to set try_it_out.use_csrf to true. Scribe will then visit the try_it_out.csrf_url before each request, retrieve the CSRF token from the XSRF-TOKEN cookie, and add it as an X-XSRF-TOKEN header to the request.

Postman collection and OpenAPI specification​

By default, Scribe will also generate a Postman collection and OpenAPI spec which you can import into API clients like Postman or Insomnia. Scribe will include the links to them in the menu of your docs.

You can configure these in the postman and openapi sections of your scribe.php file.

config/scribe.php
'postman' => [
    'enabled' => true,
    'overrides' => [
        // 'info.version' => '2.0.0',
    ],
],
'openapi' => [
    'enabled' => true,
    'overrides' => [
        // 'info.version' => '2.0.0',
    ],
],

Each section has two options:

  • enabled: Set it to false to if you don't want the collection/spec to be generated.

  • overrides: Fields to merge with the collection/spec after generating. For instance, if you set postman.overrides to ['info.version' => '2.0.0'], then the version key in the info object of your Postman collection will always be set to "2.0.0".