# Zalando RESTful API and Event Guidelines

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/style-guides/zalando/  
**Provider:** API Style Guides — https://apis.io/providers/style-guides/  
**Base URL:** https://opensource.zalando.com/restful-api-guidelines/  
**Documentation:** https://opensource.zalando.com/restful-api-guidelines/

Zalando RESTful API and Event Guidelines is one of 11 APIs that [API Style Guides](https://apis.io/providers/style-guides/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include REST, Event, API-First, OpenAPI, and Zalando. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes a GitHub repository.

The canonical open community style guide. Maintained by Zalando's API Guild and widely cited as the reference implementation for an API-First, OpenAPI-based REST and event-driven API program. Roughly 150+ numbered MUST/SHOULD/MAY rules covering REST basics, design, operation, and AsyncAPI-style event types.

## Machine-readable artifacts (4)

- **StyleGuide** — https://opensource.zalando.com/restful-api-guidelines/
- **GitHubRepository** — https://github.com/zalando/restful-api-guidelines
- **SpectralRuleset** — https://github.com/zalando/zally
- **Scope**

## Other API Style Guides APIs (10)

- [Microsoft REST API Guidelines](https://apis.io/apis/style-guides/microsoft/)
- [Google API Improvement Proposals (AIPs)](https://apis.io/apis/style-guides/google-aip/)
- [PayPal API Design Guidelines](https://apis.io/apis/style-guides/paypal/)
- [adidas API Guidelines](https://apis.io/apis/style-guides/adidas/)
- [Cisco REST API Design Guide](https://apis.io/apis/style-guides/cisco/)
- [Atlassian REST API Design Guidelines](https://apis.io/apis/style-guides/atlassian/)
- [Heroku Platform API Design Conventions](https://apis.io/apis/style-guides/heroku/)
- [GitLab API Style Guide](https://apis.io/apis/style-guides/gitlab/)
- [Kubernetes API Conventions](https://apis.io/apis/style-guides/kubernetes/)
- [IETF HTTPAPI Working Group Drafts and RFCs](https://apis.io/apis/style-guides/ietf-httpapi/)

## Tags

REST, Event, API-First, OpenAPI, Zalando

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