# Gherkin

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/cucumber/gherkin/  
**Provider:** Cucumber — https://apis.io/providers/cucumber/  
**Documentation:** https://github.com/cucumber/gherkin

Gherkin is one of 5 APIs that [Cucumber](https://apis.io/providers/cucumber/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include DSL, Gherkin, and Parser. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes a GitHub repository and an API reference.

Gherkin is the language used to write Cucumber feature files. Parsers are published per language and emit Cucumber Messages that downstream tools consume.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **GitHubRepository** — https://github.com/cucumber/gherkin
- **Reference** — https://cucumber.io/docs/gherkin/reference/

## Other Cucumber APIs (4)

- [Cucumber JVM](https://apis.io/apis/cucumber/cucumber-jvm/)
- [Cucumber.js](https://apis.io/apis/cucumber/cucumber-js/)
- [Cucumber Ruby](https://apis.io/apis/cucumber/cucumber-ruby/)
- [Cucumber Messages](https://apis.io/apis/cucumber/cucumber-messages/)

## Tags

DSL, Gherkin, Parser

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