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Discover all APIs

Once logged in to your Azure account, you can discover APIs from the Azure API Center directly in Visual Studio Code. Open the extension by clicking on the Azure API Center icon in the sidebar.

Here, you will see a tree view of all the APIs available in your organization. Next to the title APIs, you will see a Search icon, which you can click on to search for specific APIs.

Discover APIs on VS Code

View API Documentation

Once you have discovered an API, you can view its documentation directly in Visual Studio Code.

Click on the API you are interested in, expand the Versions, then Definitions and right click on the OpenAPI definition file to Open API documentation.

View API documentation

You can also Try it out directly from the API documentation to test the API.

Persona: API Platform Engineer

On the Azure portal, an API Platform Engineer/ Administrator can also discover all organizational APIs, and perform filtering and sorting based on various criteria.

Discover APIs on Azure portal