[PR #2889] [MERGED] Add ScanAPI #15888

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GiteaMirror · 2026-05-02T08:05:36-05:00

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📋 Pull Request Information

Original PR: https://github.com/vinta/awesome-python/pull/2889
Author: @camilamaia
Created: 1/30/2026
Status: ✅ Merged
Merged: 1/31/2026
Merged by: @JinyangWang27

Base: master ← Head: master

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1fd050e Add ScanAPI to Testing

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📄 Description

Project

ScanAPI

Checklist

One project per PR
PR title format: Add project-name
Entry format: * [project-name](url) - Description ending with period.
Description is concise and short

Why This Project Is Awesome

Which criterion does it meet? (pick one)

Industry Standard - The go-to tool for a specific use case
Rising Star - 5000+ stars in < 2 years, significant adoption
Hidden Gem - Exceptional quality, solves niche problems elegantly

Explain:

ScanAPI is a focused and opinionated tool for automated API validation, designed to cover a gap that is not well addressed by traditional API testing tools: validating APIs continuously in real-world scenarios (production, staging, monitoring, CI/CD).

Instead of being a generic testing framework, ScanAPI provides a declarative and versioned approach to define API checks, enabling teams to treat API validations as code and configuration, with full support for version control, reviews and collaboration.

ScanAPI has been consistently adopted by teams to solve problems such as:

Continuous API monitoring
Contract and schema validation
Regression detection
Third-party API reliability
Data quality checks in pipelines

All with a simple, lightweight and extensible design.

✨ ScanAPI was selected as one of only 71 projects worldwide to receive funding from the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund, recognizing its technical quality, security relevance, and impact on the open source ecosystem.

The project was also featured on the official GitHub Podcast episode “Inside the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund – Episode 10”, where ScanAPI is discussed as part of the program: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmCSHr12CO0 ✨

How It Differs

While most API testing tools focus on test suites for development, ScanAPI is designed around runtime API validation and governance:

It is declarative, not code-heavy.
It supports version control of API checks, making validations auditable and reviewable.
It is built for continuous execution (cron, CI/CD, monitoring).
It targets real-world API reliability, not just unit/integration tests.
It fits naturally into observability and data validation pipelines, not only QA workflows.

This makes ScanAPI closer to a validation and monitoring layer for APIs than a traditional testing framework, filling a niche between testing, observability, configuration management and data quality tools.

_{🔄 This issue represents a GitHub Pull Request. It cannot be merged through Gitea due to API limitations.}

## 📋 Pull Request Information **Original PR:** https://github.com/vinta/awesome-python/pull/2889 **Author:** [@camilamaia](https://github.com/camilamaia) **Created:** 1/30/2026 **Status:** ✅ Merged **Merged:** 1/31/2026 **Merged by:** [@JinyangWang27](https://github.com/JinyangWang27) **Base:** `master` ← **Head:** `master` --- ### 📝 Commits (1) - [`1fd050e`](https://github.com/vinta/awesome-python/commit/1fd050e33e6744821d35420526ddb8a9439ea382) Add ScanAPI to Testing ### 📊 Changes **1 file changed** (+1 additions, -0 deletions) <details> <summary>View changed files</summary> 📝 `README.md` (+1 -0) </details> ### 📄 Description ## Project [ScanAPI](https://github.com/scanapi/scanapi) ## Checklist - [x] One project per PR - [x] PR title format: `Add project-name` - [x] Entry format: `* [project-name](url) - Description ending with period.` - [x] Description is concise and short ## Why This Project Is Awesome Which criterion does it meet? (pick one) - [ ] **Industry Standard** - The go-to tool for a specific use case - [ ] **Rising Star** - 5000+ stars in < 2 years, significant adoption - [x] **Hidden Gem** - Exceptional quality, solves niche problems elegantly Explain: ScanAPI is a focused and opinionated tool for **automated API validation**, designed to cover a gap that is not well addressed by traditional API testing tools: validating APIs continuously in real-world scenarios (production, staging, monitoring, CI/CD). Instead of being a generic testing framework, ScanAPI provides a **declarative and versioned approach** to define API checks, enabling teams to treat API validations as **code and configuration**, with full support for **version control, reviews and collaboration**. ScanAPI has been consistently adopted by teams to solve problems such as: * Continuous API monitoring * Contract and schema validation * Regression detection * Third-party API reliability * Data quality checks in pipelines All with a simple, lightweight and extensible design. ✨ **ScanAPI was selected as one of only 71 projects worldwide to receive funding from the [GitHub Secure Open Source Fund](https://github.blog/open-source/maintainers/securing-the-supply-chain-at-scale-starting-with-71-important-open-source-projects/), recognizing its technical quality, security relevance, and impact on the open source ecosystem.** **The project was also featured on the official GitHub Podcast episode “Inside the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund – Episode 10”, where ScanAPI is discussed as part of the program: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmCSHr12CO0** ✨ ## How It Differs While most API testing tools focus on **test suites for development**, ScanAPI is designed around **runtime API validation and governance**: * It is **declarative**, not code-heavy. * It supports **version control of API checks**, making validations auditable and reviewable. * It is built for **continuous execution** (cron, CI/CD, monitoring). * It targets **real-world API reliability**, not just unit/integration tests. * It fits naturally into **observability and data validation pipelines**, not only QA workflows. This makes ScanAPI closer to a **validation and monitoring layer for APIs** than a traditional testing framework, filling a niche between testing, observability, configuration management and data quality tools. --- <sub>🔄 This issue represents a GitHub Pull Request. It cannot be merged through Gitea due to API limitations.</sub>

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