# Breaking Bad

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/breaking-bad/  
**APIs profiled:** 4

Community-built REST API exposing characters, quotes, episodes, and on-screen deaths from the Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul television universe. The original hosted service at breakingbadapi.com is no longer reachable as of 2026-05-29 (DNS does not resolve). The canonical source code remains at github.com/timbiles/Breaking-Bad--API under BSD-3-Clause and is the basis for the historical OpenAPI and capability artifacts in this repo.

## Kin Score — 17.0 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 17.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 26.2 |
| Governance | 25.0 |
| Contract Governance | 25.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 31.6 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | na |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | na |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | verified |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | na |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## APIs (4)

- **Breaking Bad Characters API** — Characters from the Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul universe.
- **Breaking Bad Deaths API** — On-screen deaths catalogued across the series.
- **Breaking Bad Episodes API** — Episodes from the Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul series.
- **Breaking Bad Quotes API** — Memorable quotes attributed to characters.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Breaking Bad Agentic Access** — 11 operations

## Tags

Video, Television, Public APIs, Open-Source, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, Pop Culture, Deprecated

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/breaking-bad/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.