specula/laravel

Laravel middleware for Specula — API docs that can't lie.

Captures real HTTP traffic and ships observations to your local Specula server, which builds a live OpenAPI 3.0 spec automatically. Zero annotations required.

Requirements

• PHP 8.1+
• Laravel 10 or 11

Installation

composer require specula/laravel

The SpeculaServiceProvider is auto-discovered by Laravel — no manual registration needed.

Configuration

Publish the config file:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=specula-config

This creates config/specula.php:

return [
    'enabled'        => env('SPECULA_ENABLED', true),
    'endpoint'       => env('SPECULA_ENDPOINT', 'http://localhost:7878'),
    'ignore'         => ['/health', '/metrics', '/telescope'],
    'capture_bodies' => env('SPECULA_CAPTURE_BODIES', true),
];

Add to your .env:

SPECULA_ENABLED=true
SPECULA_ENDPOINT=http://localhost:7878

That's it. Open http://localhost:7878/docs to see your API docs populate in real time.

Options

How it works

The middleware runs after the response is built, then sends the full request/response pair to the Specula server's /ingest endpoint via a non-blocking raw socket. Response time is not affected. If the Specula server is unreachable, the observation is silently dropped.

Starting the Specula server

# Download the binary
curl -sSL https://github.com/elvinaqalarov99/specula/releases/latest/download/specula-darwin-arm64 -o specula
chmod +x specula

# Start — proxy on :9999, docs on :7878
./specula start --target http://localhost:3000

License

MIT © Elvin Agalarov