Validate your Spec using Blackbird Mock
Instant, Sharable Mock Servers to Validate your Specs with your Team
Code Faster with Out-of-the-Box API Dev Tools
Spec, Mock, Write Boilerplate Code, and Debug your APIs faster with simple, intuitive tools that leverage AI and Blackbird proprietary technology.
Collaborate Painlessly to Deliver Prod-Ready APIs
Validate your specs, mock, run tests in a live environment, and debug with your team in Blackbird, letting you deploy your API to prod with confidence.
Optimize your Own Workflow
Total control of your own test environment on your local machine or in your dedicated Blackbird Dev Environment – always available in your Blackbird account with no cloud costs.
Step One:
Create an API Spec in Blackbird to Mock – Choose from these Three Options
Mock Using a Popular API Spec
Mock against up-to-date, pre-loaded API specs from popular tech, like OpenAI, Slack, Zoom, or Twitter (X).
Mock Using your Own API in Blackbird
Mock with your own API in Blackbird to enable rapid validation of your spec. Just upload your spec and then spin up your mock with one click.
Mock Using your AI-Assisted OpenAPI Spec
Build a spec instantly with Blackbird Spec Gen – a chat-based AI tool within Blackbird. Submit what you need your spec to do, and we’ll supply a spec for you.
Using APIs to connect with an AI solution
Using APIs to connect with an AI solution is something we’ve seen trending. Once you know how you want to utilize a chat-based AI addition to your software, you can mock against the OpenAI spec with Blackbird (without paying to hit the live service like you would need to do if you were working outside of Blackbird in a live test environment).
Let’s follow the path of choosing the OpenAI API spec that is pre-populated in Blackbird. Three clicks and we’re done:
In the product we will click “Add API” > “Third Party API” and select the OpenAI API > click “Accept” button.
Step Two:
Launch your Blackbird Mock Server
Typically, setting up a mock server for teams presents many potential problems, but one of the most potent problems developers run into is the time it takes to spin up a mock server.
Blackbird solves this by giving you an instant, sharable mock that is one click away after accepting your Spec to create your mock server.
In the product after you’ve clicked “Accept” for your spec, you can edit your API’s unique identifier information (or wait and do that later). You’ll notice a toggle that says “Mock Instance” that is defaulted to create a Mock for your API once you click “Create API” Blackbird.
Share your Mock with your Team and Start Validating
Now that your Mock is stood up, you can visit your mocked instances, copy your unique, sharable URL for your OpenAI API mock and start testing your endpoints.
