gmh5225 / winapi_categories_json

Windows API calls in JSON format including their category, dll, arguments (SAL notation) and more.

Win API calls with categories in JSON format

For your automation needs. This repo is a revamp of winapi-json.

Usage

The JSON file comprising all MSDN API calls is already provided with the repo (winapi_categories.json).

Nevertheless, if you need to modify the script or re execute it, do it like so:
python3 generate_api_json.py ../winapi-json/api_by_category
or just
./generate_api_json.py ../winapi-json/api_by_category
where /winapi/api_by_category is the directory created after cloning the (original) aforementioned repo.

Structure

The resulting JSON file has the following structure. The dict structure was chosen with Python optimization in mind. Feel free to change it according to your needs:

{
	'API_name':{
		'category':'cat',
		'dll':'dll',
		'header':'header',
		'return_type':'type',
		'n_arguments':INT,
		'arguments':[{
			'in_out':'in_out',
			'type':'type',
			'name':'arg_name',
			'description':'descr',
			},
			{...},
			{...}]
	}
}

Caveats

If you see several \t\t\t in certain description fields, just ignore them or .strip() it when parsing. That's because the original repo also contains them.