Curlie

Curlie is a multilingual, human-edited web directory and the official successor to the Open Directory Project (ODP), also known as DMOZ. After the DMOZ directory was shut down in March 2017, the editor community relaunched the project as Curlie to continue cataloging websites by topic across more than 90 languages. Curlie is maintained entirely by volunteer editors who review and categorize submitted sites into a hierarchical taxonomy used as a reference by search engines and researchers.

Curlie is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Categorization, Directory, DMOZ, Editorial, and Human-Edited.

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5.0/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-05 · rubric v0.9.1

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CategorizationDirectoryDMOZEditorialHuman-EditedOpen DirectorySearchTaxonomyWeb Directory

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Composite quality — 5.0/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 5.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

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

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Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Help

Help

Forums

Forums

Company 3

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

About

About

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Become an Editor

Become an Editor

Wikipedia

Wikipedia

Source (apis.yml)

aid: curlie
name: Curlie
description: Curlie is a multilingual, human-edited web directory and the official successor to the Open Directory Project
  (ODP), also known as DMOZ. After the DMOZ directory was shut down in March 2017, the editor community relaunched the project
  as Curlie to continue cataloging websites by topic across more than 90 languages. Curlie is maintained entirely by volunteer
  editors who review and categorize submitted sites into a hierarchical taxonomy used as a reference by search engines and
  researchers.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/curlie/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
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://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/curlie.png
tags:
- Categorization
- Directory
- DMOZ
- Editorial
- Human-Edited
- Open Directory
- Search
- Taxonomy
- Web Directory
created: '2026-03-27'
modified: '2026-04-28'
specificationVersion: '0.20'
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/curlie-domain-security.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/curlie-directory
- type: Website
  url: https://www.curlie.org
- type: About
  url: https://www.curlie.org/docs/en/about.html
- type: Help
  url: https://www.curlie.org/docs/en/help/helpmain.html
- type: Become an Editor
  url: https://www.curlie.org/docs/en/add.html
- type: Forums
  url: https://www.resource-zone.com/forum/
- type: Wikipedia
  url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curlie