SWAPI - Star Wars API Films API

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: SWAPI - Star Wars Films API
  description: "SWAPI (Star Wars API) is a free, open Star Wars REST API. It exposes canonical\nStar Wars data — films, people, planets, species, starships, and vehicles — across\nthe original and prequel trilogies and the Clone Wars era. SWAPI is widely used\nas a teaching API for REST clients, framework demos, MCP server tutorials, and\nJSON parser benchmarks.\n\nTwo community mirrors are commonly used:\n  - swapi.dev   (Python/Django port maintained by @juriy)\n  - www.swapi.tech (Node/MongoDB port maintained by @semperry)\n\nThe original swapi.co project (by Paul Hallett / @phalt) is no longer maintained.\nThis OpenAPI describes the swapi.dev surface, which preserves the canonical SWAPI\nresponse shape (count / next / previous / results paginators and the flat resource\nschemas). The swapi.tech mirror wraps the same payloads inside `result.properties`.\n"
  version: '1.0'
  termsOfService: https://swapi.dev/
  contact:
    name: SWAPI Community
    url: https://github.com/Juriy/swapi
  license:
    name: BSD-3-Clause
    url: https://github.com/Juriy/swapi/blob/master/LICENSE
  x-generated-from: documentation
  x-last-validated: '2026-05-29'
servers:
- url: https://swapi.dev/api
  description: swapi.dev — Python/Django mirror (primary)
- url: https://www.swapi.tech/api
  description: swapi.tech — Node/MongoDB mirror (alternate)
tags:
- name: Films
  description: The Star Wars films (theatrical episodes I-VII supported by the canonical dataset).
paths:
  /films/:
    get:
      tags:
      - Films
      operationId: listFilms
      summary: List All Films
      description: Returns a paginated list of all Star Wars films known to SWAPI.
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/SearchParam'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/PageParam'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: A page of films.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/FilmList'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound'
      x-microcks-operation:
        delay: 0
        dispatcher: FALLBACK
  /films/{id}/:
    get:
      tags:
      - Films
      operationId: getFilm
      summary: Get Film By Id
      description: Returns a single film by its numeric SWAPI id.
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/IdParam'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: A single film resource.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Film'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound'
      x-microcks-operation:
        delay: 0
        dispatcher: FALLBACK
components:
  schemas:
    Error:
      type: object
      properties:
        detail:
          type: string
          example: Not found.
    Film:
      type: object
      description: A canonical Star Wars film.
      required:
      - title
      - episode_id
      - url
      properties:
        title:
          type: string
          description: Title of the film.
          example: A New Hope
        episode_id:
          type: integer
          description: Episode number.
          example: 4
        opening_crawl:
          type: string
          description: Opening crawl text shown at the start of the film.
        director:
          type: string
          description: Name of the film's director.
          example: George Lucas
        producer:
          type: string
          description: Comma-separated list of producer names.
          example: Gary Kurtz, Rick McCallum
        release_date:
          type: string
          format: date
          description: Theatrical release date.
          example: '1977-05-25'
        characters:
          type: array
          description: URLs of characters appearing in this film.
          items:
            type: string
            format: uri
        planets:
          type: array
          description: URLs of planets featured in this film.
          items:
            type: string
            format: uri
        starships:
          type: array
          description: URLs of starships appearing in this film.
          items:
            type: string
            format: uri
        vehicles:
          type: array
          description: URLs of vehicles appearing in this film.
          items:
            type: string
            format: uri
        species:
          type: array
          description: URLs of species appearing in this film.
          items:
            type: string
            format: uri
        created:
          type: string
          format: date-time
          description: ISO 8601 timestamp of when this resource was created in the SWAPI database.
        edited:
          type: string
          format: date-time
          description: ISO 8601 timestamp of when this resource was last edited.
        url:
          type: string
          format: uri
          description: Canonical URL of this resource.
    Pagination:
      type: object
      required:
      - count
      - results
      properties:
        count:
          type: integer
          description: Total number of resources in the collection.
          example: 82
        next:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
          format: uri
          description: URL of the next page, or null if this is the last page.
          example: https://swapi.dev/api/people/?page=2
        previous:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
          format: uri
          description: URL of the previous page, or null if this is the first page.
          example: null
    FilmList:
      allOf:
      - $ref: '#/components/schemas/Pagination'
      - type: object
        properties:
          results:
            type: array
            items:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/Film'
  parameters:
    SearchParam:
      name: search
      in: query
      required: false
      description: Case-insensitive partial match against the resource's main name/title field.
      schema:
        type: string
        example: luke
    PageParam:
      name: page
      in: query
      required: false
      description: One-based page number for paginated list responses (10 items per page).
      schema:
        type: integer
        minimum: 1
        example: 1
    IdParam:
      name: id
      in: path
      required: true
      description: Numeric SWAPI identifier for the resource.
      schema:
        type: integer
        minimum: 1
        example: 1
  responses:
    NotFound:
      description: Resource not found.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
externalDocs:
  description: SWAPI Documentation (swapi.dev)
  url: https://swapi.dev/documentation