Getting started
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Getting Started
Guides are part of our Scalar Pro plan (read below, or visit our pricing page for more info).
In the top left corner of https://docs.scalar.com, you'll see a “Guide” tab. This is where you land by default.
Guides are basically a blank sheet of paper. These pages are where you will publish your non-reference content (API reference pages are discussed below). You can start writing your documentation, your guidelines, your knowledge base — whatever you want to write — using our editor. You can alternatively manage your guides using a Git repository, covered in the GitHub Sync guide.
If you're serious about this, you can create an account here to make sure your changes are saved.
API References
This is a free feature. You'll even get a nice ${whatever-you-like}.apidocumentation.com subdomain.
Every project can have one, or even multiple API references: In the top left corner, you'll see a “Reference” tab. Try to click on it to switch to our OpenAPI editor.
OpenAPI is the most popular standard to describe your API in a machine readable format. No matter which languages, libraries or frameworks you're using to build your API, it's very, very likely there's a tool, plugin or package to generate an OpenAPI document for you. If you don't find something which says “OpenAPI”, look for “Swagger”. It's what it used be called a few years ago, before it was an open standard.
Those OpenAPI documents are what we base all our tools on. So once you've got one, it should be straight-forward to use our tools.
Scalar Docs offers multiple ways to connect your OpenAPI document. Pick whatever fits your workflow:
- Paste your OpenAPI document in the editor
- Upload an OpenAPI document to the editor
- Import an URL (you can even create a “Live Link”, which means it'll fetch updates from the URL vs. just fetching it once)
- Sync your OpenAPI document from GitHub
Scalar Pro
Most of our stuff is actually freely available. Upgrading to Scalar Pro unlocks a set of additional features, including:
- Custom domains,
- GitHub sync,
- Guides (and versioning of your guides),
- TypeSense search and
- priority support (including a private Discord channel or a dedicated Slack connect channel if you like).
Pricing information can be found here.
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with offerings at every price point. They are open source. So I can get in on free features and stay with Scalar no matter how big my API needs blow up."
"After years of helping enterprises implemeain points I watched customers struggle with daily. This is the modern API platform developers deserve."
"One of my most recent favorites is a in-browser ad hoc testing UI called Scalar. One of the things that I really love about Scalar, it's got this modern UI experience, and it
with offerings at every price point. They are open source. So I can get in on free features and stay with Scalar no matter how big my API needs blow up."
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