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Improve API docs for articles, add listings to it and fix bugs (#6413) [deploy]
* Fix articles index state param values

* Update Articles API docs

* Fix ClassifiedListing.cost_by_category with invalid category

* Add docs for GET|POST /listings and fix bugs

* Document PUT /api/listings/:id

* Add docs for /listings/category/{category}

* One variable down

* Improve listings update error handling
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---
title: Contributing to the API Specification Docs
---
# Contributing to API spec docs
The API docs follow the
[OpenAPI 3 specification](https://spec.openapis.org/oas/v3.0.3).
## Where the docs are located
We auto-generate the documentation from `api_v0.yml` within the `/docs`
directory. We use [ReDoc](https://github.com/Redocly/redoc) to turn the OpenAPI
3 format into a readable and searchable HTML documentation.
## Updating API docs
Whenever you make changes to the API docs, make sure to bump the version in
`api_v0.yml`.
## Running and editing the docs locally
If you want to browse the documentation locally you can use:
```shell
yarn api-docs:serve
```
This will let you browse the auto-generated version of the doc locally, and it
will reload the doc after every modification of the spec file.
If you have Visual Studio Code, we suggest you install the following extensions
that enable validation and navigation within the spec file:
- [OpenAPI (Swagger) editor](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=42Crunch.vscode-openapi)
- [openapi-designer live preview](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=philosowaffle.openapi-designer)