ShipFinder AIS Data API · OpenAPI Overlay 1.0.0

API Evangelist enhancements for the ShipFinder Global Maritime Data API

7 actions 7 updates update extends openapi/_original/shipfinder-ais-data-api-openapi-original.yml
Derived by API Evangelist Built from the contracts ShipFinder AIS Data API publishes. ShipFinder AIS Data API did not publish this file.
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What the actions change

titlecontacttermsOfServiceapiKeyQueryx-apievangelist-operationidx-apievangelist-response-key-remapx-apievangelist-artifacts

Targets 6

$.info
$.servers
$.components.securitySchemes
$.paths.*.*[?(@.operationId == null)]
$.paths.*.*.responses
$.tags

OpenAPI Overlay

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overlay: 1.0.0
info:
  title: API Evangelist enhancements for the ShipFinder Global Maritime Data API
  version: 1.0.0
extends: openapi/_original/shipfinder-ais-data-api-openapi-original.yml
x-provenance:
  generated: '2026-08-09'
  method: generated
  note: Records what API Evangelist added on top of the verbatim per-endpoint OpenAPI 3.0.1 fragments ShipFinder
    publishes on docs.shipfinder.com. The result of applying this overlay is openapi/shipfinder-ais-data-api-openapi.yml.
    The provider fragments were not mutated.
actions:
- target: $.info
  description: ShipFinder publishes each fragment with an empty info block; supply real title, description, contact
    and terms from the published documentation.
  update:
    title: ShipFinder Global Maritime Data API
    contact:
      name: ShipFinder Support
      email: support@elaneglobal.com
      url: https://www.shipfinder.com/help-center
    termsOfService: https://www.shipfinder.com/Home/TermsConditions
- target: $.servers
  description: 'The published fragments carry servers: []. The callable host is documented in the endpoint tables
    and example calls as https://api.elaneglobal.com.'
  update:
  - url: https://api.elaneglobal.com
    description: Production
- target: $.components.securitySchemes
  description: 'The fragments carry securitySchemes: {} and security: [] even though every operation requires the
    API key. Declare the documented apiKey-in-query scheme.'
  update:
    apiKeyQuery:
      type: apiKey
      in: query
      name: key
- target: $.paths.*.*[?(@.operationId == null)]
  description: No fragment declares an operationId. API Evangelist assigned one per operation, formed from the HTTP
    method plus the final path segment, so tools and agent skills can reference operations stably.
  update:
    x-apievangelist-operationid: assigned
- target: $.paths.*.*.responses
  description: 'The fragments key the success response as "0" — the business status code carried in the JSON body
    — which is not a valid OpenAPI response key. Remapped to "200"; the body envelope still carries status: 0. See
    errors/ for the full return-code catalog.'
  update:
    x-apievangelist-response-key-remap:
      from: '0'
      to: '200'
- target: $.tags
  description: Folder-style tags ("1 AIS Dataset/1.1 Vessel Position") were normalised to the seven published dataset
    names and declared at document level.
  update:
  - name: AIS Dataset
  - name: Voyage Dataset
  - name: History Dataset
  - name: Prediction Dataset
  - name: Meteorology Dataset
  - name: China Coastline Warning Dataset
  - name: Event Dataset
- target: $.info
  description: Cross-link the API Evangelist artifacts derived from this contract.
  update:
    x-apievangelist-artifacts:
      errors: errors/shipfinder-ais-data-api-error-codes.yml
      vocabulary: vocabulary/shipfinder-ais-data-api-vocabulary.yml
      conventions: conventions/shipfinder-ais-data-api-conventions.yml
      authentication: authentication/shipfinder-ais-data-api-authentication.yml
      webhooks: asyncapi/shipfinder-ais-data-api-webhooks.yml
      rate_limits: rate-limits/shipfinder-ais-data-api-rate-limits.yml

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