Bitstrips

Bitstrips was a Toronto-based consumer software company, founded in 2007 by Jacob "Ba" Blackstock, that created the personalized comic platform Bitstrips and the personal-avatar app Bitmoji. Snap Inc. acquired Bitstrips in March 2016, retired the original Bitstrips comic product, and now operates the technology as Bitmoji. The public developer surface today is the Bitmoji Direct API (Bitmoji for Developers): an OAuth2 authorization-code-with-PKCE flow via www.bitmoji.com/connect that grants third-party apps access to a user's avatar ID, sticker packs, and sticker search, served from bitmoji.api.snapchat.com/direct. Note that Snap has deprecated the "Bitmoji For Identity" product; the standalone stickers and search integrations remain documented. This profile was surfaced as a Kleiner Perkins portfolio company and enriched from the public Bitmoji developer documentation.

Bitstrips is listed with 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Consumer, Avatars, Stickers, and Bitmoji.

Bitstrips’ developer surface includes documentation, authentication, and 6 more developer resources.

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12.7/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only Front door AI 1/6 silent Heartbeat 0/100 dormant Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

1 API

Company Consumer Avatars StickersBitmojiMessaging Image OAuth Social Authentication

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 12.7/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 3.6 / 17

Access Clarity 0.0 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.3 / 11

Contract Governance 0.5 / 10

Discoverability 6.2 / 9

Regulatory Posture 2.5 / 15

Agent readiness — 3/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0

12 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 0.0 — up to +25.0 composite points
Access Clarity scores 0.0 — up to +20.0 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 21.4 — up to +15.7 composite points

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Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OAuth

tagged — the provider's own APIs.json carries the standard as a tag; implementation not verified

APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Bitmoji Direct API

OAuth2 (authorization code + PKCE) API for Bitmoji for Developers, providing access to a connected user's avatar ID, sticker packs, and sticker search. Served from bitmoji.api.s...

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Bitstrips Authentication

oauth2/http · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Bitstrips Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

WellKnown

WellKnown

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conformance

Conformance

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: bitstrips
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/bitstrips.png
name: Bitstrips
description: 'Bitstrips was a Toronto-based consumer software company, founded in 2007 by Jacob "Ba" Blackstock, that created
  the personalized comic platform Bitstrips and the personal-avatar app Bitmoji. Snap Inc. acquired Bitstrips in March 2016,
  retired the original Bitstrips comic product, and now operates the technology as Bitmoji. The public developer surface today
  is the Bitmoji Direct API (Bitmoji for Developers): an OAuth2 authorization-code-with-PKCE flow via www.bitmoji.com/connect
  that grants third-party apps access to a user''s avatar ID, sticker packs, and sticker search, served from bitmoji.api.snapchat.com/direct.
  Note that Snap has deprecated the "Bitmoji For Identity" product; the standalone stickers and search integrations remain
  documented. This profile was surfaced as a Kleiner Perkins portfolio company and enriched from the public Bitmoji developer
  documentation.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bitstrips/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- kleiner-perkins
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
tags:
- Company
- Consumer
- Avatars
- Stickers
- Bitmoji
- Messaging
- Image
- OAuth
- Social
- Authentication
tags_raw:
- Company
- Consumer
- Avatars
- Stickers
- Bitmoji
- Messaging
- Images
- OAuth
- Social
- Authentication
apis:
- name: Bitmoji Direct API
  description: OAuth2 (authorization code + PKCE) API for Bitmoji for Developers, providing access to a connected user's avatar
    ID, sticker packs, and sticker search. Served from bitmoji.api.snapchat.com/direct with authorization initiated at www.bitmoji.com/connect.
  humanURL: https://github.com/Bitmoji/BitmojiForDevelopers
  baseURL: https://bitmoji.api.snapchat.com/direct/
  tags:
  - Avatars
  - Stickers
  - OAuth
  - Authentication
  tags_raw:
  - Avatars
  - Stickers
  - OAuth
  - Authentication
  properties:
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/bitstrips-authentication.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://github.com/Bitmoji/BitmojiForDevelopers/blob/main/docs/DIRECT_AUTH_FOR_DEVELOPERS.md
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/bitstrips-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.bitmoji.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://github.com/Bitmoji/BitmojiForDevelopers
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/Bitmoji
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/bitstrips-authentication.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/bitstrips-conformance.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/bitstrips-llms.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/bitstrips-well-known.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

Bitstrips API — frequently asked questions

Does Bitstrips have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from Bitstrips, including Bitmoji Direct API.

How do I authenticate with the Bitstrips API?

Bitstrips uses bearer-token authentication (oauth2/http · 2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Bitstrips Authentication.

Is the Bitstrips API ready for AI agents?

Bitstrips has a Kin Score of 12.7 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 2.5 (human-only), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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