API documentation for proxy scoring requires thoughtful planning and an understanding of the needs of your target audience. Smartbear’s State of API Documentation Report 2023 revealed that the most popular sections of an API doc were examples, status and errors, and authentication.

A Getting Started section can help users familiarize themselves with your API, making it easier to navigate complex technical documents. It’s also helpful to include tutorials for simple project types that can be done with your API.

API Documentation for Proxy Scoring: How to Get Started

Your API docs must be clear, concise and easy to read. Your intended audience can be split into two categories — developers who will actively use your API, and those who may not be so familiar and could benefit from simpler docs and more tutorials and code examples. Additionally, a Getting Started section can be a great way to communicate the goals of your API for internal team members who were not involved in building it.

The Policy tab lets you add common management capabilities to an API proxy without writing code, such as security, rate limiting, and transformations. The more policies you add, the more granular control you have over your API’s behavior.

The Strictness request parameter sets how in-depth the security checks will be for a specific API endpoint. Higher values require more processing power and can cause a higher false-positive rate, while lower values can provide an acceptable level of protection for your API. The Allow Public Accesspoints request parameter determines whether to bypass certain checks for IP addresses that are known to be associated with research institutions, schools or some corporations.