Case study

Skylight API: reconstructing the Skylight Calendar web API

Skylight API documents Skylight Calendar's web API from browser HAR captures and publishes the resulting OpenAPI specification. Its CLI filters Skylight requests, redacts sensitive values, normalizes URL paths, infers response schemas, and generates Swagger UI or ReDoc pages.

Targets: Protocol · Website
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-07

Stars: 21
Last commit: 2025-12-30
Language: TypeScript
License (GitHub): MIT

GitHub data as of 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: Generating or updating the specification requires HAR files with content captured from the Skylight web app.
Prerequisites: Node.js and npm are used to install and run the CLI.
Scope: The author reports that the published specification covers 38 endpoints.
License: MIT license.

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BibTeX

@misc{skylight-api-case,
  title = {{Skylight API: reconstructing the Skylight Calendar web API}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/TheEagleByte/skylight-api}},
  url = {https://github.com/TheEagleByte/skylight-api},
  urldate = {2026-11-07},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/skylight-api-case/}}
}

Plain text

Skylight API: reconstructing the Skylight Calendar web API. https://github.com/TheEagleByte/skylight-api (accessed 2026-11-07). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/skylight-api-case/

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README.md GitHub · TheEagleByte/skylight-api · Revision 92f0753