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ByteDance

ByteDance is a global technology company founded in 2012 and headquartered in Beijing, operating across roughly 120 cities with more than 150,000 employees. It builds content, creativity, and productivity platforms powered by machine learning, including TikTok and Douyin (short-form video), Toutiao (news aggregation), CapCut (video editing), Lark/Feishu (enterprise collaboration), Pico (virtual reality), and the Volcano Engine cloud and AI platform. ByteDance maintains an active open source presence on GitHub with 400+ public repositories spanning AI agent frameworks, infrastructure, and media tooling. It was surfaced in the API Evangelist network as a portfolio company of altimeter-capital, coatue, ggv-capital, hongshan, idg-capital, softbank-vision-fund, and tiger-global.

ByteDance is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Consumer Internet, Social Media, Video, and Artificial Intelligence.

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7.4/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
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CompanyConsumer InternetSocial MediaVideoArtificial IntelligenceContent PlatformsCloudOpen Source

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 7.4/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
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
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Security Posture 1

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

Bytedance Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization
GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website
Website

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
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image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/bytedance.png
name: ByteDance
description: ByteDance is a global technology company founded in 2012 and headquartered in Beijing, operating across roughly
  120 cities with more than 150,000 employees. It builds content, creativity, and productivity platforms powered by machine
  learning, including TikTok and Douyin (short-form video), Toutiao (news aggregation), CapCut (video editing), Lark/Feishu
  (enterprise collaboration), Pico (virtual reality), and the Volcano Engine cloud and AI platform. ByteDance maintains an
  active open source presence on GitHub with 400+ public repositories spanning AI agent frameworks, infrastructure, and media
  tooling. It was surfaced in the API Evangelist network as a portfolio company of altimeter-capital, coatue, ggv-capital,
  hongshan, idg-capital, softbank-vision-fund, and tiger-global.
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x-tier: stub
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created: '2026-07-17'
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- Consumer Internet
- Social Media
- Video
- Artificial Intelligence
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- Cloud
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apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
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x-enrichment:
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  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence