Boxee, Inc. was a New York and Tel Aviv based consumer media company founded in 2007 by Avner Ronen, Tom Sella, Idan Cohen, Gidon Coussin and Roy Vulcan. Its cross-platform media-center software began as a fork of the open-source XBMC project and bridged local media libraries with internet streaming sources. Boxee shipped a Python-based application API in April 2009 that let third parties build Boxee apps in Python with XML-defined interfaces, distributed through the Boxee app directory and documented at developer.boxee.tv. Hardware followed with the D-Link Boxee Box (2010) and Boxee TV with a cloud DVR service (2012). Backed by Union Square Ventures and Spark Capital, Boxee was acquired by Samsung Electronics in July 2013; the cloud DVR was shut down on 10 July 2013 and Samsung wound down the Boxee team in 2015. The company is defunct and no API surface, developer portal, or documentation remains reachable.
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aid: boxee
name: Boxee
description: Boxee, Inc. was a New York and Tel Aviv based consumer media company founded in 2007 by Avner Ronen, Tom Sella,
Idan Cohen, Gidon Coussin and Roy Vulcan. Its cross-platform media-center software began as a fork of the open-source XBMC
project and bridged local media libraries with internet streaming sources. Boxee shipped a Python-based application API
in April 2009 that let third parties build Boxee apps in Python with XML-defined interfaces, distributed through the Boxee
app directory and documented at developer.boxee.tv. Hardware followed with the D-Link Boxee Box (2010) and Boxee TV with
a cloud DVR service (2012). Backed by Union Square Ventures and Spark Capital, Boxee was acquired by Samsung Electronics
in July 2013; the cloud DVR was shut down on 10 July 2013 and Samsung wound down the Boxee team in 2015. The company is
defunct and no API surface, developer portal, or documentation remains reachable.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/boxee/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
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: []
generated: '2026-07-22'
method: derived
image: https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/644333?v=4
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- union-square-ventures
- spark-capital
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: defunct
x-status-note: 'Acquired by Samsung Electronics in July 2013 (~$30M); cloud-DVR service discontinued 10 July 2013 and the
Boxee project shut down by Samsung in 2015. Re-probed 2026-07-20: boxee.com, www.boxee.com, boxee.tv, api.boxee.tv, developer.boxee.tv
and app.boxee.tv all return no A record; HTTP/HTTPS to boxee.com, www.boxee.com and boxee.tv all fail to connect (curl 000).
Both domains are still registered but parked with no hosting - boxee.com at GoDaddy (expires 2027-03-19), boxee.tv via the
Njalla privacy registrar (expires 2028-01-24). The github.com/Boxee organization ("Boxee, Inc.", created 2011-03-01) is
still live but publishes zero public repositories. No live API surface, specs, hosts, or /.well-known documents exist to
enrich or probe; every enrichment artifact type was correctly skipped rather than fabricated.'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
tags:
- Company
- Consumer
- Media Center
- Streaming
- Set-Top Box
- Video
- Entertainment
- Cord Cutting
- Cloud DVR
- Defunct
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
name: Boxee (historical - does not resolve)
url: https://boxee.com
- type: GitHubOrganization
name: Boxee, Inc. on GitHub
url: https://github.com/Boxee
x-enrichment:
date: '2026-07-20'
status: minimal
artifacts_added: 0
pass: local-v1
x-lifecycle:
state: deprecated
reason: domain-does-not-resolve
observed: '2026-09-27'
detail: The company's own domain returned no A or AAAA record when probed. This is an observation about the domain, not
a request from the company.
indexed: true
x-acquired-by: samsung
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