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  • OpenAPI/Swagger specifications
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  • SDK usage examples
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Documentation Structure

For Each Endpoint

## GET /api/v1/users/:id

### Description
Brief explanation of what this endpoint does

### Parameters

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|------|------|----------|-------------|
| id | string | Yes | User ID |

### Response

**200 Success**
```json
{
  "id": "usr_123",
  "name": "John Doe",
  "email": "john@example.com",
  "created_at": "2025-01-15T10:30:00Z"
}

404 Not Found

{
  "error": "USER_NOT_FOUND",
  "message": "User does not exist"
}

Examples

cURL

curl -X GET "https://api.example.com/api/v1/users/usr_123" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKEN"

JavaScript

const user = await fetch('/api/v1/users/usr_123', {
  headers: { 'Authorization': 'Bearer token' }
}).then(r => r.json());

Python

response = requests.get(
    'https://api.example.com/api/v1/users/usr_123',
    headers={'Authorization': 'Bearer token'}
)
user = response.json()

```

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