Openprocurement.api

Judgement

What it is

Building block

What it does

The original API for the OpenProcurement database behind Ukraine's ProZorro public tender system.

Adopt it when

Mainly for historical study of the ProZorro design.

Watch out

Last tagged release is v0.3, Travis badges point to retired CI, and active development moved to other repositories.

Ready for

Experimental

Runs as

Self-hosted server

Built with

Python

How established

Established: started 12 years ago, latest release v0.3.

What the license allows

You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.

Judged on 2026-11-03 from the project's README and GitHub data. The license and age lines are worked out directly.

Built from

Follow it down: Openprocurement.api → CPython → GCC → LLVM project → runs on a microchip

How compilers were built, back to punched paper tape

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