Boxee

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.

Boxee is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Consumer, Media Center, Streaming, and Set-Top Box.

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0.0/100 minimal Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-25 · rubric v0.23.0

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Company ConsumerMedia CenterStreaming Set-Top Box Video EntertainmentCord CuttingCloud DVRDefunct

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scored 2026-09-25 · rubric v0.23.0

Composite quality — 0.0/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 17

Access Clarity 0.0 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 0.0 / 9

Regulatory Posture 0.0 / 15

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 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

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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

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