Kaggle

Kaggle (a Google company) is an online community and platform for data scientists and machine learning practitioners: it hosts competitions, public datasets, cloud Notebooks, Models, Benchmarks and Learn courses. Developers reach it programmatically through the official kaggle CLI / Python client (kagglesdk, kagglehub) and a remote MCP server at https://www.kaggle.com/mcp exposing 76 tools, secured with OAuth 2.0 or Kaggle API tokens.

Kaggle is listed with 2 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include CLI, Competitions, Data Science, Datasets, and MCP.

Kaggle’s developer surface includes CLI, authentication, engineering blog, documentation, support, signup flow, and 12 more developer resources.

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23.2/100 emerging ▲ 17.3 Agent 6/100 agent aware Front door AI 3/6 light Heartbeat 63/100 slowing Full breakdown ↓
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2 APIs 1 MCP Servers

CLI Competitions Data Science Datasets MCP Machine Learning Open Data Public APIs

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scored 2026-11-13 · rubric v0.28.0

Composite quality — 23.2/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 7.3 / 17

Access Clarity 4.7 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.5 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 6.1 / 9

Regulatory Posture 3.3 / 15

Agent readiness — 6/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 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 0 / 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

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document Ask about this →
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author Ask about this →
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) Ask about this →
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes Ask about this →
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0 Ask about this →
Rate-Limit Signaling +7 pts — OpenAPI responses document X-RateLimit-* / RateLimit headers (verified), else a rate_limits artifact or RateLimits link (documented) Ask about this →

11 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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Access Clarity scores 27.7 — up to +14.5 composite points Ask about this →
Operational Transparency scores 4.8 — up to +12.4 composite points Ask about this →

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Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

measured — observed by APIs.io (documented)

APIs 2

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

Kaggle

Kaggle public API used by the official kaggle CLI and Python SDK to search, download and publish datasets, models, notebooks (kernels) and competition submissions.

Kaggle MCP Server

Remote Model Context Protocol server exposing 76 Kaggle tools (competitions, datasets, models, notebooks, benchmarks, forums, hackathons); tools/list is public, tool use require...

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Kaggle MCP Server

Remote MCP server at www.kaggle.com requiring OAuth; 76 tools listed.

MCP SERVER

Security Posture 2

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

Kaggle Authentication

3 schemes

SECURITY

Kaggle Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Kaggle Scopes

1 scope

1 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

SignUp

SignUp

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

MCPServer

MCPServer

Build 5

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

CLI

CLI

SDKs

SDKs

Packages

Packages

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

SourceCode

SourceCode

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

OAuthScopes

OAuthScopes

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Blog

Blog

Website

Website

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Hosts

Hosts

PublicAPIsListing

PublicAPIsListing

Source (apis.yml)

aid: kaggle
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  probe_state: covered
  source:
  - authentication
  - scopes
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-13'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/kaggle.png
name: Kaggle
x-parent: google
description: 'Kaggle (a Google company) is an online community and platform for data scientists and machine learning practitioners:
  it hosts competitions, public datasets, cloud Notebooks, Models, Benchmarks and Learn courses. Developers reach it programmatically
  through the official kaggle CLI / Python client (kagglesdk, kagglehub) and a remote MCP server at https://www.kaggle.com/mcp
  exposing 76 tools, secured with OAuth 2.0 or Kaggle API tokens.'
url: https://www.kaggle.com/
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-05-28'
modified: '2026-11-11'
x-source: public-apis/public-apis
x-category: Open Data
x-tier: '3'
x-tier-reason: bulk-registered-from-public-apis
tags:
- CLI
- Competitions
- Data Science
- Datasets
- MCP
- Machine Learning
- Open Data
- Public APIs
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
common:
- type: CLI
  url: cli/kaggle-cli.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/kaggle-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/kaggle-scopes.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/kaggle-mcp.yml
- type: Hosts
  url: hosts/kaggle-hosts.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/kaggle-packages.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/kaggle-packages.yml
- url: https://www.kaggle.com/blog/
  type: Blog
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/kaggle-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.kaggle.com/
- type: PublicAPIsListing
  url: https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.kaggle.com/docs
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.kaggle.com/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.kaggle.com/privacy
- type: Support
  url: https://www.kaggle.com/contact
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/Kaggle
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/Kaggle/kaggle-cli
- type: SignUp
  url: https://www.kaggle.com/account/login
apis:
- name: Kaggle
  description: Kaggle public API used by the official kaggle CLI and Python SDK to search, download and publish datasets,
    models, notebooks (kernels) and competition submissions.
  humanURL: https://www.kaggle.com/docs/api
  tags:
  - Open Data
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.kaggle.com/docs/api
  baseURL: https://www.kaggle.com/api/v1
  aid: kaggle:kaggle
- name: Kaggle MCP Server
  description: Remote Model Context Protocol server exposing 76 Kaggle tools (competitions, datasets, models, notebooks, benchmarks,
    forums, hackathons); tools/list is public, tool use requires OAuth (scope resources.admin:*).
  humanURL: https://www.kaggle.com/docs/mcp
  baseURL: https://www.kaggle.com/mcp
  tags:
  - MCP
  - Machine Learning
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.kaggle.com/docs/mcp
  aid: kaggle:kaggle-mcp-server
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-11-12'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 6
  pass: local-v6
x-coverage:
  state: covered
  reason: documented-api
  detail: Kaggle documents its public REST API (used by the official kaggle CLI) and a remote MCP server; neither publishes
    an OpenAPI document.
  evidence:
  - url: https://www.kaggle.com/docs/api
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.kaggle.com/docs/mcp
    status: 200

Kaggle API — frequently asked questions

Does Kaggle have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 2 APIs from Kaggle, including Kaggle and Kaggle MCP Server.

How do I authenticate with the Kaggle API?

Kaggle uses bearer-token authentication (3 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Kaggle Authentication.

Does Kaggle have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Kaggle: Remote MCP server at www.kaggle.com requiring OAuth; 76 tools listed.

Is the Kaggle API ready for AI agents?

Kaggle has a Kin Score of 23.2 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 6.0 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-13.

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