San Francisco, CA – January 19 2026 – 42Crunch announced the availability of API Contract Generator in developer IDEs, designed to speed up the creation of OpenAPI documentation. By leveraging existing Postman Collections and network traffic (HAR files), companies can now accelerate the documentation of their APIs by auto-generating new OpenAPI contracts in the IDE.
API Contract Generator is now available to enterprise customers and over 2 million engineers who already use our OpenAPI Editor in popular IDEs such as VS Code, Jetbrains and Eclipse. It is also available on a free, limited usage basis, along with some of our API security testing tools, as part of our Freemium model.
Benefits of using API Contract Generator:
- Reduced volume of manual effort – Automate the tasks of writing OpenAPI contracts
- Greater quality of OpenAPI documentation – Adopt a standards-based approach for consistent quality of docs
- Achieve scale with automation– API Contract Generator seamlessly integrates with the API security platform’s testing and protection services to deliver the scalability enterprises expect
- Fits easily into the software development process – Integrated into developer IDEs, making it easy and simple to use during the SDLC of APIs.
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About 42Crunch
42Crunch is a leader in API security, helping enterprises reduce API-driven cyber risk across the fastest-growing attack surface in digital business. The 42Crunch API Security Platform combines continuous security testing with runtime protection to prevent vulnerabilities before APIs reach production and blocks malicious attacks in real time. By embedding automated security and governance across the API lifecycle, 42Crunch enables organizations to secure APIs as a strategic enterprise asset—without slowing development teams down. The 42Crunch API Security Platform delivers API security testing, governance, and runtime protection and is used by Fortune 500 enterprises and more than 2 million developers worldwide.
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