Crawl4AI · OpenAPI Overlay 1.0.0

API Evangelist enrichment overlay for the Crawl4AI Platform Gateway spec

6 actions 6 updates update extends ../openapi/crawl4ai-platform-gateway-openapi.json
Generated by API Evangelist Written by API Evangelist tooling for Crawl4AI's API. It is a proposal applied on top of the contract, not a document Crawl4AI publishes.
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What the actions change

x-statusx-replaced-byx-replacement-notex-providerx-provider-idx-legal-entityx-source-repositoryx-source-file

Targets 6

$.info
$
$.paths['/crawl/job'].post
$.paths['/crawl/job/{jobId}'].get
$.paths['/crawl/job'].post.responses['429']
$.paths['/crawl/job'].post.responses['401']

OpenAPI Overlay

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overlay: 1.0.0
info:
  title: API Evangelist enrichment overlay for the Crawl4AI Platform Gateway spec
  version: 1.0.0
extends: ../openapi/crawl4ai-platform-gateway-openapi.json
x-provenance:
  generated: '2026-08-29'
  method: generated
  source: >-
    Enhancements derived from live probes of gate.crawl4ai.com and from
    https://github.com/unclecode/crawl4ai-platform-production (config/routes.oas.json)
  note: >-
    THIS OVERLAY EXISTS MAINLY TO CARRY A WARNING. The document it extends is the
    only OpenAPI Crawl4AI has ever published, and it does not describe any live
    Crawl4AI API. It is the route config of a Zuplo gateway in the first-party
    repo unclecode/crawl4ai-platform-production, last pushed 2025-11-02. Both of
    its operations return 404 on the live host (POST https://gate.crawl4ai.com/crawl/job
    -> 404, probed 2026-08-29), and neither appears in the current documentation.
    The original file is never mutated; everything below is additive.
actions:
  - target: $.info
    description: Record provenance, ownership and retirement status on the document itself.
    update:
      x-provider: Crawl4AI
      x-provider-id: crawl4ai
      x-legal-entity: CONTEXT4AI PTE LTD
      x-source-repository: https://github.com/unclecode/crawl4ai-platform-production
      x-source-file: config/routes.oas.json
      x-ownership-check: >-
        info.title is "Crawl4AI API" and the description is "AI-powered web
        scraping and crawling API"; the repository owner @unclecode is the author
        of the crawl4ai project and the named contact on the first-party Cloud
        SDK. Ownership is not in doubt. Currency is.
      x-status: retired
      x-status-evidence: 'POST https://gate.crawl4ai.com/crawl/job -> 404 (2026-08-29)'
      x-live-surfaces:
        - https://gate.crawl4ai.com
        - https://api.crawl4ai.com
      x-live-contract: >-
        None published. The live surfaces are documented in prose at
        gate.crawl4ai.com/docs and in the provider's own skill reference; the only
        machine-readable live contract is the MCP tools/list at
        https://gate.crawl4ai.com/mcp.
  - target: $
    description: >-
      Add the servers block the source document omits entirely, marked as
      historical rather than callable.
    update:
      x-servers-note: >-
        The source spec declares NO servers[]. It was a Zuplo route config, where
        the host is supplied by the gateway deployment, so no host can be
        recovered from the document. None is invented here.
  - target: $.paths['/crawl/job'].post
    description: Mark the operation retired and point at its live replacement.
    update:
      x-status: retired
      x-probe: {url: 'https://gate.crawl4ai.com/crawl/job', method: POST, status: 404, date: '2026-08-29'}
      x-replaced-by: 'POST https://gate.crawl4ai.com/scrape/jobs'
      x-replacement-note: >-
        The live equivalent takes {"urls":[...]} plus any /scrape field and returns
        {"job_id":"j_...","status":"pending"}; it accepts up to 10,000 URLs.
      x-gateway-policies:
        inbound: [api-key-auth, quota-enforcement, rate-limit]
        outbound: [add-rate-limit-headers, quota-headers, billing-track]
  - target: $.paths['/crawl/job/{jobId}'].get
    description: Mark the operation retired and point at its live replacement.
    update:
      x-status: retired
      x-replaced-by: 'GET https://gate.crawl4ai.com/scrape/jobs/{id}'
      x-replacement-note: >-
        The live equivalent returns status and counts; ?full=1 adds per-URL detail,
        and results are fetched separately from /scrape/jobs/{id}/results as NDJSON.
  - target: $.paths['/crawl/job'].post.responses['429']
    description: Attach the rate-limit signalling the provider documents elsewhere.
    update:
      headers:
        X-RateLimit-Limit: {description: Requests allowed per minute., schema: {type: integer}}
        X-RateLimit-Remaining: {description: Requests left this window., schema: {type: integer}}
        X-RateLimit-Reset: {description: SECONDS until the limit resets — not a unix timestamp., schema: {type: integer}}
  - target: $.paths['/crawl/job'].post.responses['401']
    description: Record the observed live authentication behaviour.
    update:
      x-observed: >-
        On the live gate host an unauthenticated request returns 401 with a
        zero-length body and no error document.

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