# Disqus

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/disqus/  
**Website:** https://disqus.com  
**APIs profiled:** 5

Disqus is a hosted web comments and community discussion service used by publishers and bloggers to add threaded commenting, social sharing, and audience engagement features to their sites without running their own backend. The Disqus Public API lets developers read and write comments, threads, forums, users, and category data and integrate Disqus communities into custom applications. Authentication uses OAuth 2.0 plus an API key and secret, with all REST endpoints served from disqus.com/api/3.0/.

## Kin Score — 34.7 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 34.7).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 46.9 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 38.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 38.2 |
| Access Clarity | 38.2 |

## Agent readiness — 26.1 (agent-aware)

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

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (5)

- **Disqus Categories API** — The Categories API from Disqus — 2 operation(s) for categories.
- **Disqus Forums API** — The Forums API from Disqus — 10 operation(s) for forums.
- **Disqus Posts API** — The Posts API from Disqus — 6 operation(s) for posts.
- **Disqus Threads API** — The Threads API from Disqus — 4 operation(s) for threads.
- **Disqus Users API** — The Users API from Disqus — 3 operation(s) for users.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Disqus Agentic Access** — 25 operations · 13 acting

## Security (2)

- **Disqus Authentication** — apiKey/oauth2 · 2 schemes
- **Disqus Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Comments, Community, Discussions, Publishing, Audience Engagement, Social

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