# Metadata and Docs URLs

You can customize several metadata configurations in your **FastAPI** application.

## Metadata for API

You can set the following fields that are used in the OpenAPI specification and the automatic API docs UIs:

| Parameter | Type | Description |
|------------|------|-------------|
| `title` | `str` | The title of the API. |
| `summary` | `str` | A short summary of the API. <small>Available since OpenAPI 3.1.0, FastAPI 0.99.0.</small> |
| `description` | `str` | A short description of the API. It can use Markdown. |
| `version` | `string` | The version of the API. This is the version of your own application, not of OpenAPI. For example `2.5.0`. |
| `terms_of_service` | `str` | A URL to the Terms of Service for the API. If provided, this has to be a URL. |
| `contact` | `dict` | The contact information for the exposed API. It can contain several fields. <details><summary><code>contact</code> fields</summary><table><thead><tr><th>Parameter</th><th>Type</th><th>Description</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><code>name</code></td><td><code>str</code></td><td>The identifying name of the contact person/organization.</td></tr><tr><td><code>url</code></td><td><code>str</code></td><td>The URL pointing to the contact information. MUST be in the format of a URL.</td></tr><tr><td><code>email</code></td><td><code>str</code></td><td>The email address of the contact person/organization. MUST be in the format of an email address.</td></tr></tbody></table></details> |
| `license_info` | `dict` | The license information for the exposed API. It can contain several fields. <details><summary><code>license_info</code> fields</summary><table><thead><tr><th>Parameter</th><th>Type</th><th>Description</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><code>name</code></td><td><code>str</code></td><td><strong>REQUIRED</strong> (if a <code>license_info</code> is set). The license name used for the API.</td></tr><tr><td><code>identifier</code></td><td><code>str</code></td><td>An <a href="https://spdx.org/licenses/" class="external-link" target="_blank">SPDX</a> license expression for the API. The <code>identifier</code> field is mutually exclusive of the <code>url</code> field. <small>Available since OpenAPI 3.1.0, FastAPI 0.99.0.</small></td></tr><tr><td><code>url</code></td><td><code>str</code></td><td>A URL to the license used for the API. MUST be in the format of a URL.</td></tr></tbody></table></details> |

You can set them as follows:

```Python hl_lines="3-16  19-32"
{!../../../docs_src/metadata/tutorial001.py!}
```

!!! tip
    You can write Markdown in the `description` field and it will be rendered in the output.

With this configuration, the automatic API docs would look like:

<img src="/img/tutorial/metadata/image01.png">

## License identifier

Since OpenAPI 3.1.0 and FastAPI 0.99.0, you can also set the `license_info` with an `identifier` instead of a `url`.

For example:

```Python hl_lines="31"
{!../../../docs_src/metadata/tutorial001_1.py!}
```

## Metadata for tags

You can also add additional metadata for the different tags used to group your path operations with the parameter `openapi_tags`.

It takes a list containing one dictionary for each tag.

Each dictionary can contain:

* `name` (**required**): a `str` with the same tag name you use in the `tags` parameter in your *path operations* and `APIRouter`s.
* `description`: a `str` with a short description for the tag. It can have Markdown and will be shown in the docs UI.
* `externalDocs`: a `dict` describing external documentation with:
    * `description`: a `str` with a short description for the external docs.
    * `url` (**required**): a `str` with the URL for the external documentation.

### Create metadata for tags

Let's try that in an example with tags for `users` and `items`.

Create metadata for your tags and pass it to the `openapi_tags` parameter:

```Python hl_lines="3-16  18"
{!../../../docs_src/metadata/tutorial004.py!}
```

Notice that you can use Markdown inside of the descriptions, for example "login" will be shown in bold (**login**) and "fancy" will be shown in italics (_fancy_).

!!! tip
    You don't have to add metadata for all the tags that you use.

### Use your tags

Use the `tags` parameter with your *path operations* (and `APIRouter`s) to assign them to different tags:

```Python hl_lines="21  26"
{!../../../docs_src/metadata/tutorial004.py!}
```

!!! info
    Read more about tags in [Path Operation Configuration](../path-operation-configuration/#tags){.internal-link target=_blank}.

### Check the docs

Now, if you check the docs, they will show all the additional metadata:

<img src="/img/tutorial/metadata/image02.png">

### Order of tags

The order of each tag metadata dictionary also defines the order shown in the docs UI.

For example, even though `users` would go after `items` in alphabetical order, it is shown before them, because we added their metadata as the first dictionary in the list.

## OpenAPI URL

By default, the OpenAPI schema is served at `/openapi.json`.

But you can configure it with the parameter `openapi_url`.

For example, to set it to be served at `/api/v1/openapi.json`:

```Python hl_lines="3"
{!../../../docs_src/metadata/tutorial002.py!}
```

If you want to disable the OpenAPI schema completely you can set `openapi_url=None`, that will also disable the documentation user interfaces that use it.

## Docs URLs

You can configure the two documentation user interfaces included:

* **Swagger UI**: served at `/docs`.
    * You can set its URL with the parameter `docs_url`.
    * You can disable it by setting `docs_url=None`.
* **ReDoc**: served at `/redoc`.
    * You can set its URL with the parameter `redoc_url`.
    * You can disable it by setting `redoc_url=None`.

For example, to set Swagger UI to be served at `/documentation` and disable ReDoc:

```Python hl_lines="3"
{!../../../docs_src/metadata/tutorial003.py!}
```
