Frigate NVR

Frigate NVR provides an open source network video recorder (NVR) that uses modern AI object detection to monitor security cameras. It integrates with popular camera platforms, offers a web UI, and supports real‑time alerts, recordings, and customizable zones. The project is community‑driven, with extensive documentation, Docker deployment options, and active development aimed at simplifying video surveillance for homes and businesses.

Frigate NVR is listed with 2 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Video, Surveillance, OpenSource, and AI.

The Frigate NVR catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Frigate NVR’s developer surface includes authentication, changelog, API reference, documentation, and 13 more developer resources.

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25.2/100 emerging Agent 20/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-10-31 · rubric v0.25.0 · Show this score on your site →

2 APIs

Company Video SurveillanceOpenSourceAI

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-10-31 · rubric v0.25.0

Composite quality — 25.2/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 4.3 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 7.7 / 17

Access Clarity 0.0 / 17

Operational Transparency 2.3 / 11

Contract Governance 2.2 / 10

Discoverability 4.9 / 9

Regulatory Posture 2.3 / 15

Agent readiness — 20/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 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 4 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

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Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
Rate-Limit Signaling +7 pts — OpenAPI responses document X-RateLimit-* / RateLimit headers (verified), else a rate_limits artifact or RateLimits link (documented)

10 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 20.1 — up to +20.0 composite points
Access Clarity scores 0.0 — up to +20.0 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 45.2 — up to +11.0 composite points

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APIs 2

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Frigate API

Frigate provides a RESTful API for managing cameras, recordings, and detections as documented in the configuration reference.

Frigate NVR API

Frigate NVR API as documented publicly: 5 operations. Contract generated from the documentation by API Evangelist (2026-10-28); not the provider's own document.

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Frigate Context

4 classes · 7 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Frigate NVR API Rules

10 rules · 8 errors 1 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 4

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

PostApiLoginRequest

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PostApiMediaSyncResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PostExportCustomCameranameStartStarttimeEndEndtimeRequest

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PostExportCustomCameranameStartStarttimeEndEndtimeResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Security Posture 2

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

Frigate Authentication

1 scheme

SECURITY

Frigate Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

APIReference

APIReference

Documentation

Documentation

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Spectral

JSONLD

Vocabulary

DataModel

Conformance

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

SDKs

SDKs

Packages

Packages

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Hosts

Hosts

Vendors

Vendors

Source (apis.yml)

aid: frigate
name: Frigate NVR
description: Frigate NVR provides an open source network video recorder (NVR) that uses modern AI object detection to monitor
  security cameras. It integrates with popular camera platforms, offers a web UI, and supports real‑time alerts, recordings,
  and customizable zones. The project is community‑driven, with extensive documentation, Docker deployment options, and active
  development aimed at simplifying video surveillance for homes and businesses.
url: https://artifacts.apis.io/frigate/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:new-submission
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enrichment pass 2026-10-28 (modular-v1; was harvest)
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-10-28'
modified: '2026-10-28'
image: https://frigate.video/logo.png
tags:
- Company
- Video
- Surveillance
- OpenSource
- AI
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Spectral
  url: rules/frigate-rules.yml
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/frigate-context.jsonld
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/frigate-vocabulary.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/frigate-data-model.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/frigate-authentication.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/frigate-conformance.yml
- type: Hosts
  url: hosts/frigate-hosts.yml
- type: Vendors
  url: vendors/frigate-vendors.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/frigate-packages.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/frigate-packages.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate/releases
- type: APIReference
  url: https://docs.frigate.video/configuration/advanced/reference
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://docs.frigate-cn.video
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/frigate-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://frigate.video/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.frigate.video
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate
apis:
- name: Frigate API
  description: Frigate provides a RESTful API for managing cameras, recordings, and detections as documented in the configuration
    reference.
  humanURL: https://docs.frigate.video/configuration/advanced/reference
  aid: frigate:frigate-api-2
- aid: frigate:frigate-api
  name: Frigate NVR API
  description: 'Frigate NVR API as documented publicly: 5 operations. Contract generated from the documentation by API Evangelist
    (2026-10-28);

    not the provider''s own document.'
  humanURL: https://docs.frigate.video/configuration/advanced/system
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/_ae-authored/frigate-openapi-generated.yml
    x-provenance: generated
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/frigate-post-export-custom-cameraname-start-starttime-end-endtime-request-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/frigate-post-api-media-sync-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/frigate-post-export-custom-cameraname-start-starttime-end-endtime-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/frigate-post-api-login-request-schema.json
x-submission-probe: 200, 2026-10-26
x-coverage:
  state: unreadable
  reason: no-machine-readable-spec
  detail: Documentation provides configuration reference but no machine‑readable OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, GraphQL, gRPC or WSDL
    contracts.
  evidence:
  - url: https://docs.frigate.video/configuration/advanced/reference
    status: 200
  checked: '2026-10-28'
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-10-28'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 19
  pass: modular-v1
  engine: identity=local,contract=local,surfaces=local,docs=local,regulatory=local

Frigate NVR API — frequently asked questions

Does Frigate NVR have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 2 APIs from Frigate NVR, including Frigate API and Frigate NVR API.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Frigate NVR API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 1 OpenAPI specification for Frigate NVR, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Frigate NVR API?

Frigate NVR uses bearer-token authentication (1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Frigate Authentication.

Is the Frigate NVR API ready for AI agents?

Frigate NVR has a Kin Score of 25.2 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 20.1 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-10-31.

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