Vanilla Forums · OpenAPI Overlay 1.0.0

API Evangelist enhancements for the Vanilla API v2

5 actions 5 updates security extends openapi/vanilla-api-openapi-original.json

Derived by API Evangelist Built from the contracts Vanilla Forums publishes. Vanilla Forums did not publish this file.

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What the actions change

x-apievangelistcontactx-rate-limitsexternalDocssecuritySchemes

Targets 4

$.info

$.servers

$.components

OpenAPI Overlay

overlay: 1.0.0
info:
  title: API Evangelist enhancements for the Vanilla API v2
  version: 1.0.0
extends: openapi/vanilla-api-openapi-original.json
x-generated: '2026-07-21'
x-method: generated
x-source: API Evangelist enrichment pipeline (the original spec is never mutated)
actions:
  - target: $.info
    update:
      x-apievangelist:
        provider: vanilla-forums
        harvested: '2026-07-21'
        harvested_from: https://open.vanillaforums.com/api/v2/open-api/v3
        notes: >-
          Platform-generated per-community spec. 371 operations across 242
          paths; 362 operations carry summaries but only 6 carry operationIds,
          and no securitySchemes are declared - see
          authentication/vanilla-forums-authentication.yml for the documented
          auth profile (personal access tokens, JWT, role tokens).
      contact:
        name: Vanilla Support (Higher Logic)
        url: https://success.vanillaforums.com/
  - target: $.info
    update:
      x-rate-limits:
        get_per_minute_per_ip: 300
        write_per_minute_per_ip: 120
        throttle_status: 429
        docs: https://success.vanillaforums.com/kb/articles/44-rate-limits
  - target: $
    update:
      externalDocs:
        description: API and Webhooks documentation on the Success Community
        url: https://success.vanillaforums.com/kb/categories/97-api-and-webhooks
  - target: $.servers
    description: >-
      The harvested server URL is the open.vanillaforums.com community; every
      Vanilla cloud community serves the same API at https://<community-domain>/api/v2.
    update: []
  - target: $.components
    update:
      securitySchemes:
        personalAccessToken:
          type: http
          scheme: bearer
          description: Personal access token from Edit Profile > Access Tokens (docs kb/articles/41).
        jwtBearer:
          type: http
          scheme: bearer
          bearerFormat: JWT
          description: HS256 JWT via the JWT addon (docs kb/articles/122).

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