Showpad · OpenAPI Overlay 1.0.0

API Evangelist enhancements for Showpad API v3

3 actions 3 updates update extends openapi/showpad-v3-openapi-original.yml
Derived by API Evangelist Built from the contracts Showpad publishes. Showpad did not publish this file.
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What the actions change

x-apievangelist-providerx-apievangelist-artifactsx-api-lifecyclex-error-formatx-error-envelopex-error-code-registryx-idempotencyx-base-url-note

Targets 3

$.info
$.servers[0]
$.components.securitySchemes.oAuth

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overlay: 1.0.0
info:
  title: API Evangelist enhancements for Showpad API v3
  version: 1.0.0
extends: openapi/showpad-v3-openapi-original.yml
x-provenance:
  generated: '2026-08-14'
  method: generated
  source: >-
    Derived from API Evangelist artifacts in all/showpad/. The harvested spec is never
    mutated.
actions:
  - target: $.info
    update:
      x-apievangelist-provider: showpad
      x-apievangelist-artifacts:
        conventions: conventions/showpad-conventions.yml
        errors: errors/showpad-problem-types.yml
        lifecycle: lifecycle/showpad-lifecycle.yml
        authentication: authentication/showpad-authentication.yml
        scopes: scopes/showpad-scopes.yml
        conformance: conformance/showpad-conformance.yml
        data_model: data-model/showpad-data-model.yml
      x-api-lifecycle:
        version: '3'
        status: stable, feature-complete
        note: >-
          Showpad states there are no plans to deprecate v3, but it receives no further
          feature updates and 30 of its 200 operations are already flagged deprecated in the
          published spec.
        deprecated_operation_count: 30
        sunset_header: false
      x-error-format: legacy-envelope
      x-error-envelope: '{ "response": { "code": <int>, "name": "<ErrorName>", "message": "<text>" } }'
      x-error-code-registry: errors/showpad-problem-types.yml
      x-idempotency: none published
  - target: $.servers[0]
    update:
      x-base-url-note: >-
        Templated per customer subdomain. Showpad also documents
        https://{subdomain}.showpad.com/api/v3 as an equivalent v3 host.
  - target: $.components.securitySchemes.oAuth
    update:
      x-scope-reference: https://developer.showpad.com/docs/apis/concepts/authentication
      x-token-lifetimes:
        access_token: 1 hour
        refresh_token: 14 days
      x-additional-scope: appsdb_online_integrations
      x-additional-scope-note: >-
        Documented on the authentication page but absent from the spec's flow scope maps;
        requires activation.

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