Gather

Gather (gather.town) is a video-calling platform that places people in a navigable 2D virtual space, letting multiple groups hold separate conversations in parallel and walk in and out of them as easily as they would in real life. It is used for remote and hybrid offices, conferences, and events. Gather exposes a public HTTP API for programmatically creating spaces and reading/writing the map (room) data of a space, plus managing a space's email guestlist, and a realtime WebSocket "game" API (via the official @gathertown/gather-game-client SDK) for subscribing to player/movement/chat events and driving avatars or bots. API keys are generated at gather.town/apiKeys and require Admin or Builder permission on the target space. Gather was surfaced as a portfolio company of Index Ventures and True Ventures and enriched into the API Evangelist network.

Gather publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network: HTTP API. Tagged areas include Company, Future Of Work, Virtual Office, Video Conferencing, and Collaboration.

Gather’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, engineering blog, pricing, and 21 more developer resources.

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50.3/100 developing Agent 55/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-20 · rubric v0.4

1 APIs 1 MCP Servers 0 Features

CompanyFuture Of WorkVirtual OfficeVideo ConferencingCollaborationMetaverseRemote WorkEvents

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scored 2026-07-20 · rubric v0.4

Composite quality — 50.3/100 · developing

Contract Quality 14.6 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 14.8 / 20

Commercial Clarity 8.9 / 20

Operational Transparency 2.7 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 9.3 / 10

Agent readiness — 55/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

SignUp

SignUp

Documentation 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

OpenAPI

OpenAPI

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown

MCPServer

LLMsTxt

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conformance

ErrorCatalog

Lifecycle

Conventions

DataModel

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Packages

Packages

SDKs

SDKs

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

StatusPage

StatusPage

Support

Support

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Blog

Blog

Website

Website

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Overlay

Overlay

Source (apis.yml)

aid: gather
name: Gather
description: Gather (gather.town) is a video-calling platform that places people in a navigable 2D virtual space, letting
  multiple groups hold separate conversations in parallel and walk in and out of them as easily as they would in real life.
  It is used for remote and hybrid offices, conferences, and events. Gather exposes a public HTTP API for programmatically
  creating spaces and reading/writing the map (room) data of a space, plus managing a space's email guestlist, and a realtime
  WebSocket "game" API (via the official @gathertown/gather-game-client SDK) for subscribing to player/movement/chat events
  and driving avatars or bots. API keys are generated at gather.town/apiKeys and require Admin or Builder permission on the
  target space. Gather was surfaced as a portfolio company of Index Ventures and True Ventures and enriched into the API Evangelist
  network.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/gather/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- index-ventures
- true-ventures
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
image: https://app.gather.town/images/site/site_preview.png
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Future Of Work
- Virtual Office
- Video Conferencing
- Collaboration
- Metaverse
- Remote Work
- Events
apis:
- name: Gather HTTP API
  description: Create Gather spaces, read and write the map/room data of a space, and manage a space's email guestlist. Authenticated
    with an apiKey header.
  humanURL: https://gathertown.notion.site/Gather-HTTP-API-3bbf6c59325f40aca7ef5ce14c677444
  baseURL: https://api.gather.town
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/gather-http-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/gather-http-api-overlay.yaml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: OpenAPI
  url: openapi/gather-http-api-openapi.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/gather-authentication.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/gather-domain-security.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/gather-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/gather-packages.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/gather-well-known.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/gather-mcp.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/gather-llms.txt
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/gather-http-api-overlay.yaml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/gather-conformance.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/gather-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/gather-lifecycle.yml
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.gather.town/
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/gather-conventions.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/gather-data-model.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://support.gather.town/hc/en-us/categories/api-integration
- type: Documentation
  url: https://gathertown.notion.site/Gather-HTTP-API-3bbf6c59325f40aca7ef5ce14c677444
- type: APIReference
  url: https://gathertown.notion.site/Gather-HTTP-API-3bbf6c59325f40aca7ef5ce14c677444
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://github.com/gathertown/api-examples
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/gathertown
- type: Support
  url: https://support.gather.town/
- type: Blog
  url: https://gather.town/blog
- type: Pricing
  url: https://gather.town/pricing
- type: SignUp
  url: https://app.gather.town/signup
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://gather.town/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://gather.town/privacy
- type: Website
  url: https://gather.town/
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence