# Export OpenAPI spec

Make use of your OpenAPI specs in order to manage your APIs as an organization and deliver a smooth experience for users of your APIs:

Once you have built a complete API, it is possible to download the OpenAPI spec.
This can be done by going to the 'Operations' section of your project and clicking on 'Download OpenAPI specification':
![download-openapi-spec](https://tray.ai/documentation/images/platform/api-management/openapi-spec/export-openapi-spec/63HAJ6ZzDkcb7ydZuxE4s3_download-openapi-spec.png)
Below are some ways in which you could make use of your OpenAPI specs in order to manage your APIs as an organization and deliver a smooth experience for users of your APIs:

* **Generate Documentation with industry standard tools:**
  * **Swagger UI:** Automatically generate interactive API documentation where users can try out API endpoints
  * **ReDoc:** Create clean, customizable documentation
* **Build an API Explorer:** Provide a sandbox environment where developers can explore and test API endpoints without writing any code
* **Request and Response Validation:** Validate incoming requests and outgoing responses against the OpenAPI spec to ensure they conform to the defined schema
* **Security and Compliance:** Ensure your API adheres to security standards
* **Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD):** Integrate OpenAPI spec validation and testing into your CI/CD pipelines to automatically check for compliance and regressions
* **Automated Testing:** Generate automated tests for your API endpoints based on the OpenAPI spec
* **SDK Generation:** Provide SDKs in various programming languages to simplify integration for developers
* **Collaboration:** Facilitate collaboration between frontend and backend teams, product managers, and other stakeholders
* **Standardization:** Ensure consistency and adherence to best practices across multiple APIs within your organization

## Notes on using OpenAPI specs

* Users with all roles (including viewer) can download a spec. Users are not able to modify or override anything on the API by clicking this button
* Every time the 'Download...' button is clicked a new spec is generated based on the latest update to your API
* Specs are generated in json using OpenAPI v 3.0.0