# Install api with npm

Magical SDK generation from an OpenAPI definition 🪄. Version 6.1.3 via npm; verified 2025-02-24.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install npm:api
```

Additional install commands:

### Portable and language managers

- npm (100%):

```sh
npm install -g api
```

  Evidence: local npm package metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** npm:api
- **Package manager:** npm
- **Package manager page:** <https://www.npmjs.com/package/api>
- **Version:** 6.1.3
- **Source summary:** Magical SDK generation from an OpenAPI definition 🪄
- **Homepage:** <https://api.readme.dev>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/readmeio/api>
- **Upstream docs:** <https://api.readme.dev>
- **License:** MIT
- **Source archive:** <https://registry.npmjs.org/api/-/api-6.1.3.tgz>
- **Issue tracker:** <https://github.com/readmeio/api/issues>
- **Published:** 2025-02-24T19:07:01.964Z
- **Last updated:** 2025-02-24T19:07:01.964Z
- **Generated:** 2026-07-26T07:20:29+00:00

## Executables

- api (cli)
- api (alias)

## Dependencies

- @readme/oas-to-har
- @readme/openapi-parser
- caseless
- chalk
- commander
- datauri
- execa
- fetch-har
- figures
- find-cache-dir
- form-data-encoder
- formdata-node
- get-stream
- isomorphic-fetch
- js-yaml
- json-schema-to-ts
- json-schema-traverse
- lodash
- make-dir
- node-abort-controller
- oas
- ora
- prompts
- remove-undefined-objects
- semver
- ssri
- ts-morph
- validate-npm-package-name

## Build dependencies

- @readme/oas-examples
- @types/caseless
- @types/find-cache-dir
- @types/js-yaml
- @types/lodash
- @types/prettier
- @types/prompts
- @types/semver
- @types/ssri
- @types/validate-npm-package-name
- @vitest/coverage-v8
- fetch-mock
- oas-normalize
- type-fest
- typescript
- unique-temp-dir
- vitest

## Install behavior

- Post-install hook: not defined
- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-07-26
- Package-manager version: 6.1.3
- Package-manager updated: 2025-02-24
- Local data: ok
- Upstream repository: https://github.com/readmeio/api
- warning: The package-manager record has not been updated in over a year.
- info: No cached GitHub release or tag data was available.

## Security Notes

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for api. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.


## Source Database Details

- **Source Database:** npm registry
- **Dist Tags:** Latest: 6.1.3, Next: 7.0.0-beta.16
- **Version Count:** 144
- **Maintainers:** gkoberger, domharrington, mjcuva, jonursenbach, rafegoldberg, dannobytes, darrenyong, owlbert
- **Author:** Jon Ursenbach
- **Publisher:** jonursenbach
- **Engines:** Node: >=16
- **Integrity:** sha512-a9Bk/CVzQUvGIDG8HR1sVyQdPd5gxzygoQEnzBhYWvSJOW5fIMGkGq+lXItM2vWAneJqWgFMqbBklYw9qMsz6A==
- **Shasum:** 2b10836d386b4bf60ca9a22611c9da7895b9a44a
- **Unpacked Size:** 306,596
- **File Count:** 0
- **Created At:** 2011-09-27T16:59:57.135Z
- **Latest Published At:** 2025-02-24T19:07:01.964Z
- **Modified At:** 2026-01-21T16:54:19.144Z


## Related links

- [Text processing packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/text-processing-tools/) - Matched curated package taxonomy and local package facts.
- [apib2swagger](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/npm/apib2swagger/) - Both packages work with overlapping file formats or content types. Shared terms: api, api-tools, cli, developer, developer-tools.
- [swagger-tools](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/npm/swagger-tools/) - Both packages work with overlapping file formats or content types. Shared terms: api, api-tools, cli, commander, developer.
- [chanfana](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/npm/chanfana/) - Both packages work with overlapping file formats or content types. Shared terms: api, api-tools, cli, developer, developer-tools.

## Sources

- Nucleus package database
- package-page enrichment
- package version freshness
- av.db category and tag curation
- package relationship graph
- cross-ecosystem install command graph