Columbia Sportswear

aid: columbia-sportswear
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/columbia-sportswear/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Columbia Sportswear
tags:
- Apparel
- B2B
- Consumer Management
- Content Management
- Digital Asset Management
- Footwear
- Fortune 1000
- Outdoor
- Partner APIs
- Product Imagery
- Retail
type: Index
kind: company
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/columbia-sportswear.png
access: 3rd-Party
created: '2025-03-23'
modified: '2026-09-05'
position: Consuming
description: 'Columbia Sportswear is a global designer, marketer, and distributor of outdoor, active, and everyday lifestyle
  apparel, footwear, accessories, and equipment under the Columbia, Mountain Hardwear, SOREL, and prAna brands. Columbia Sportswear
  Digital runs a partner-facing API estate on Microsoft Azure API Management: a developer portal at columbia.developer.azure-api.net
  and a production gateway on Columbia''s own domain at api.columbia.com. Exactly one API product is documented anonymously
  - ContentHub External, a read-only product-imagery service with a published OpenAPI 3.0.1 contract - and every other product
  on the portal requires sign-in. Access is a partner arrangement rather than a developer program: subscriptions require Columbia''s
  approval, portal terms restrict use to Columbia employees and to vendors serving Columbia under agreement, and no price,
  rate limit, SLA or status page is published. The company also exchanges traditional EDI documents (POs, ASNs, invoices)
  with retail trading partners through providers like TrueCommerce and eZCom.'
apis:
- aid: columbia-sportswear:digital-developer-portal
  name: Columbia Sportswear Digital Developer Portal
  tags:
  - Azure API Management
  - Developer Portal
  - Partner APIs
  - Retail
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://columbia.developer.azure-api.net/
  properties:
  - url: https://columbia.developer.azure-api.net/
    type: DeveloperPortal
  - url: https://columbia.developer.azure-api.net/apis
    type: APIReference
  - url: https://columbia.developer.azure-api.net/products
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://columbia.developer.azure-api.net/signup
    type: SignUp
  description: Columbia Sportswear's partner-facing API platform, hosted on Microsoft Azure API Management. The portal at
    columbia.developer.azure-api.net lists API products, offers a try-it console, and takes subscription requests; the production
    gateway answers on Columbia's own domain at api.columbia.com. Anonymously, the portal publishes one product - ContentHub
    External - and everything else requires sign-in. Every subscription requires Columbia's approval before a key is issued.
    The legacy portal endpoint at columbia.portal.azure-api.net has been retired and now returns HTTP 503; this record was
    repointed at the live portal on 2026-09-05.
  x-features:
  - Hosted on Microsoft Azure API Management
  - Subscription-key authentication (Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key header or subscription-key query parameter)
  - Approval-gated subscriptions - no self-service key issuance
  - Try-it console and machine-readable OpenAPI export per API product
  - Production gateway on a first-party custom domain (api.columbia.com)
  x-use-cases:
  - Request partner access to a Columbia API product
  - Browse the published API catalog and export its OpenAPI definition
  - Manage subscription keys for an approved partner integration
  baseURL: https://api.columbia.com/
- aid: columbia-sportswear:content-hub-external
  name: Content Hub External API
  tags:
  - Digital Asset Management
  - Product Imagery
  - Retail
  - Partner APIs
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://columbia.developer.azure-api.net/api-details#api=4cad0e39673846b186038d3113e5a4ab
  baseURL: https://api.columbia.com/ContentHubExternal
  description: 'Columbia Sportswear''s ContentHub image service for external customers. A read-only API with two GET operations:
    look up product imagery ("seasonal assets") for a single 10-digit material number, or page through assets in bulk over
    a modified-on date range with Skip/Take paging capped at a Take of 1000. Both operations filter on perspective, shot subtype
    and a modified-on window. Unauthorized callers are limited to Product Shot imagery older than a configured season. Authentication
    is an Azure API Management subscription key on every call. The OpenAPI 3.0.1 contract in this repo was exported from Columbia''s
    own API Management instance and declares servers[] https://api.columbia.com/ContentHubExternal - Columbia''s own domain
    - confirming first-party ownership.'
  x-features:
  - OpenAPI 3.0.1 contract published by the provider and exportable from the portal
  - Subscription-key authentication declared and applied in the contract
  - Offset paging (Skip/Take) with a documented cap of 1000 on the bulk operation
  - Modified-on date-range filtering for incremental sync
  - Read-only - no write, cancel or delete surface
  x-use-cases:
  - Sync Columbia product imagery into a retail partner or marketplace catalog
  - Incrementally pull assets changed since a stored high-water mark
  - Resolve product photography for a Columbia material number
  properties:
  - url: openapi/columbia-sportswear-content-hub-external-openapi.json
    type: OpenAPI
  - url: errors/columbia-sportswear-problem-types.yml
    type: ErrorCatalog
  - url: conformance/columbia-sportswear-conformance.yml
    type: Conformance
  - url: data-model/columbia-sportswear-data-model.yml
    type: DataModel
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.columbia.com/
- type: Corporate
  url: https://www.columbiasportswear.com/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://columbia.developer.azure-api.net/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://columbia.developer.azure-api.net/apis
- type: SignUp
  url: https://columbia.developer.azure-api.net/signup
- type: Support
  url: https://help.columbia.com/s/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/columbiasportswear
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/columbia-sportswear
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.columbia.com/t/legal/privacy-policy/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.columbia.com/t/legal/terms-of-use/
- type: Investor Relations
  url: https://investor.columbia.com/
- type: Mountain Hardwear
  url: https://www.mountainhardwear.com/
- type: SOREL
  url: https://www.sorel.com/
- type: prAna
  url: https://www.prana.com/
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/columbia-sportswear-authentication.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/columbia-sportswear-domain-security.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/columbia-sportswear-conventions.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/columbia-sportswear-lifecycle.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/columbia-sportswear-packages.yml
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/columbia-sportswear-content-hub-external-overlay.yaml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/columbia-sportswear-llms.txt
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/columbia-sportswear-mcp.yml
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/columbia-sportswear-vocabulary.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/columbia-sportswear-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/columbia-sportswear-rate-limits.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
specificationVersion: '0.23'
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-09-05'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 15
  pass: local-v3