Company
Date Published
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DigitalOcean
Word count
386
Language
English
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None

Summary

The DigitalOcean Product Documentation team has introduced a new feature called "Try it out" that allows customers to test API calls directly from the product documentation website without setting up test environments or third-party API platforms. This feature uses the popular Swagger protocol to render DigitalOcean's OpenAPI spec into a documentation reference, enabling customers to securely explore what the API has to offer them. The "Try it out" functionality requires a DigitalOcean API key and stores it in local state for security purposes. Once entered, customers can select an API call, configure parameters or requests bodies as necessary, and execute the request to see the response.