diff --git a/.changeset/purple-chefs-wait.md b/.changeset/purple-chefs-wait.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d8489e0275
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/purple-chefs-wait.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+'@backstage/plugin-api-docs': minor
+---
+
+Adding requestInterceptor option to `api-docs` and pass it to SwaggerUI. This will enable to configure a proxy or headers to be sent to all the request made through the `Try it out` button on SwaggerUI.
diff --git a/.github/vale/Vocab/Backstage/accept.txt b/.github/vale/Vocab/Backstage/accept.txt
index c61c6bdf46..1706556ce8 100644
--- a/.github/vale/Vocab/Backstage/accept.txt
+++ b/.github/vale/Vocab/Backstage/accept.txt
@@ -296,6 +296,7 @@ readonly
 rebase
 Recharts
 Redash
+requestInterceptor
 replicasets
 repo
 Repo
diff --git a/plugins/api-docs/README.md b/plugins/api-docs/README.md
index 27e19b218d..f74fc19e92 100644
--- a/plugins/api-docs/README.md
+++ b/plugins/api-docs/README.md
@@ -222,3 +222,42 @@ security:
 ## Links
 
 - [The Backstage homepage](https://backstage.io)
+
+### Adding requestInterceptor to Swagger UI
+
+To configure a [requestInterceptor for Swagger UI](https://github.com/swagger-api/swagger-ui/tree/master/flavors/swagger-ui-react#requestinterceptor-proptypesfunc) you'll need to add the following to your `api.tsx`:
+
+```tsx
+...
+import { OpenApiDefinitionWidget, apiDocsConfigRef, defaultDefinitionWidgets } from '@backstage/plugin-api-docs';
+import { ApiEntity } from '@backstage/catalog-model';
+
+export const apis: AnyApiFactory[] = [
+...
+createApiFactory({
+    api: apiDocsConfigRef,
+    deps: {},
+    factory: () => {
+      // Overriding openapi definition widget to add cors-anywhere proxy
+      const requestInterceptor = (req: any) => {
+        // Adding cors-anywhere proxy to the request url
+        console.log(req);
+        req.url = "https://cors-anywhere.herokuapp.com/" + req.url;
+        return req;
+      };
+      const definitionWidgets = defaultDefinitionWidgets();
+      definitionWidgets[definitionWidgets.findIndex(obj => obj.type === 'openapi')] = {
+        type: 'openapi',
+        title: 'OpenAPI',
+        rawLanguage: 'yaml',
+        component: (definition) => <OpenApiDefinitionWidget definition={definition} requestInterceptor={requestInterceptor} />,
+      };
+
+      return {
+        getApiDefinitionWidget: (apiEntity: ApiEntity) => {
+          return definitionWidgets.find(d => d.type === apiEntity.spec.type);
+        },
+      };
+    },
+  })
+```
diff --git a/plugins/api-docs/api-report.md b/plugins/api-docs/api-report.md
index a9b21664c3..783e2bdecb 100644
--- a/plugins/api-docs/api-report.md
+++ b/plugins/api-docs/api-report.md
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ const apiDocsPlugin: BackstagePlugin<
   {
     registerApi: ExternalRouteRef<undefined, true>;
   },
-  {}
+  ApiDocsInputPluginOptions
 >;
 export { apiDocsPlugin };
 export { apiDocsPlugin as plugin };
diff --git a/plugins/api-docs/src/components/OpenApiDefinitionWidget/OpenApiDefinition.test.tsx b/plugins/api-docs/src/components/OpenApiDefinitionWidget/OpenApiDefinition.test.tsx
index 735fba86f7..adbd069908 100644
--- a/plugins/api-docs/src/components/OpenApiDefinitionWidget/OpenApiDefinition.test.tsx
+++ b/plugins/api-docs/src/components/OpenApiDefinitionWidget/OpenApiDefinition.test.tsx
@@ -38,8 +38,14 @@ paths:
         "200": 
           description: Success
     `;
+
+    const requestInterceptor = (req: any) => req;
+
     const { getByText } = await renderInTestApp(
-      <OpenApiDefinition definition={definition} />,
+      <OpenApiDefinition
+        definition={definition}
+        requestInterceptor={requestInterceptor}
+      />,
     );
 
     // swagger-ui loads the documentation asynchronously
diff --git a/plugins/api-docs/src/components/OpenApiDefinitionWidget/OpenApiDefinition.tsx b/plugins/api-docs/src/components/OpenApiDefinitionWidget/OpenApiDefinition.tsx
index 5d5988399a..624f99e4a1 100644
--- a/plugins/api-docs/src/components/OpenApiDefinitionWidget/OpenApiDefinition.tsx
+++ b/plugins/api-docs/src/components/OpenApiDefinitionWidget/OpenApiDefinition.tsx
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ import { makeStyles } from '@material-ui/core/styles';
 import React, { useEffect, useState } from 'react';
 import SwaggerUI from 'swagger-ui-react';
 import 'swagger-ui-react/swagger-ui.css';
+import { Request } from './';
 
 const useStyles = makeStyles(theme => ({
   root: {
@@ -136,9 +137,13 @@ const useStyles = makeStyles(theme => ({
 
 export type OpenApiDefinitionProps = {
   definition: string;
+  requestInterceptor?: (req: Request) => Request | Promise<Request>;
 };
 
-export const OpenApiDefinition = ({ definition }: OpenApiDefinitionProps) => {
+export const OpenApiDefinition = ({
+  definition,
+  requestInterceptor,
+}: OpenApiDefinitionProps) => {
   const classes = useStyles();
 
   // Due to a bug in the swagger-ui-react component, the component needs
@@ -152,7 +157,12 @@ export const OpenApiDefinition = ({ definition }: OpenApiDefinitionProps) => {
 
   return (
     <div className={classes.root}>
-      <SwaggerUI spec={def} url="" deepLinking />
+      <SwaggerUI
+        spec={def}
+        url=""
+        requestInterceptor={requestInterceptor}
+        deepLinking
+      />
     </div>
   );
 };
diff --git a/plugins/api-docs/src/components/OpenApiDefinitionWidget/OpenApiDefinitionWidget.tsx b/plugins/api-docs/src/components/OpenApiDefinitionWidget/OpenApiDefinitionWidget.tsx
index 424a52136b..809934ee11 100644
--- a/plugins/api-docs/src/components/OpenApiDefinitionWidget/OpenApiDefinitionWidget.tsx
+++ b/plugins/api-docs/src/components/OpenApiDefinitionWidget/OpenApiDefinitionWidget.tsx
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 
 import { Progress } from '@backstage/core-components';
 import React, { Suspense } from 'react';
+import { Request } from './';
 
 // The swagger-ui component and related CSS has a significant size, only load it
 // if the element is actually used.
@@ -28,6 +29,7 @@ const LazyOpenApiDefinition = React.lazy(() =>
 /** @public */
 export type OpenApiDefinitionWidgetProps = {
   definition: string;
+  requestInterceptor?: (req: Request) => Request | Promise<Request>;
 };
 
 /** @public */
diff --git a/plugins/api-docs/src/components/OpenApiDefinitionWidget/index.ts b/plugins/api-docs/src/components/OpenApiDefinitionWidget/index.ts
index e317d42a59..f23f560347 100644
--- a/plugins/api-docs/src/components/OpenApiDefinitionWidget/index.ts
+++ b/plugins/api-docs/src/components/OpenApiDefinitionWidget/index.ts
@@ -16,3 +16,7 @@
 
 export { OpenApiDefinitionWidget } from './OpenApiDefinitionWidget';
 export type { OpenApiDefinitionWidgetProps } from './OpenApiDefinitionWidget';
+
+export interface Request {
+  [k: string]: any;
+}