Templates / Generate self-documenting API portal for webhooks with n8n API & Bootstrap

Generate self-documenting API portal for webhooks with n8n API & Bootstrap

Ready for 3.0

by Matheus Pedrosa ✓ · 274 views · created 2025-08-21 · Document Extraction, Multimodal AI

Ready for 3.0. This template uses no nodes that n8n 3.0 removes. No removed nodes, versions or helpers found. Static check, last run 2026-10-19.

What this workflow does

This workflow has 13 nodes and runs when another workflow calls it (plus 2 other triggers). It uses only n8n's built-in nodes.

How it runs

Trigger: When another workflow calls it (plus 2 other triggers).

  1. GetWorkflows (n8n): uses n8n
  2. FakeResponse (Code): runs custom JavaScript code
  3. Configs (Edit Fields (Set)): sets 4 fields: name_doc, version, description…
  4. Aggregate: combines items into one
  5. Respond (Respond to Webhook): sends the response back to the webhook caller
  6. Execute Sub-workflow: calls another n8n workflow
  7. FilterWorkflows (Code): runs custom JavaScript code
  8. MakeFullHTML (HTML): parses or builds HTML
  9. RespondHTML (Respond to Webhook): sends the response back to the webhook caller
  10. API_DOCS (Edit Fields (Set)): sets or maps fields

Before you upgrade to n8n 3.0

Nothing in this workflow is removed in n8n 3.0, so it should import and run after the upgrade.

Nodes used (9)

From the author

Workflow Overview Keeping API documentation updated is a challenge, especially when your endpoints are powerful n8n webhooks. This project solves that problem by turning your n8n instance into a self-documenting API platform. This workflow acts as a central…

Excerpt from Matheus Pedrosa's description on n8n.io.

View the original on n8n.io → Check your own copy

Get the weekly “what broke” email

New templates, newly broken ones, and n8n release changes. One short email a week.

Form not loading? Subscribe here.