# 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.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Protocol · Website
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-07
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/TheEagleByte/skylight-api>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/TheEagleByte/skylight-api/blob/92f0753b2b2d9695cd15d18ad9d8eeb7e03b32d0/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/skylight-api-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/skylight-api-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/skylight-api-case/index.md)

## 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.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/TheEagleByte/skylight-api/blob/92f0753b2b2d9695cd15d18ad9d8eeb7e03b32d0/README.md>

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