# Kitchen Stories **Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/kitchenstories/ **Website:** https://www.kitchenstories.com **APIs profiled:** 37 Kitchen Stories is a Berlin-based, video-first cooking and recipe platform founded in 2013 by Verena Hubertz and Mengting Boensch, and majority-owned by the BSH Group (Bosch Siemens Hausgeraete) since 2017. The company publishes roughly 15,000 recipes and articles with HD step-by-step video tutorials across its iOS and Android apps, website, smart TVs, and Amazon Echo Show, reaching more than 6 million unique users from over 22 million app downloads. Alongside the consumer product it runs Kitchen Stories Business, a branded-content and native-advertising arm working with around 300 brand partners, and an online shop for its own organic spice mixes. Its content platform is served by the Kitchen Stories Internal API (Ultron), a bearer-token REST API at api.kitchenstories.io covering recipes, articles, videos, ingredients, utensils, categories, user cookbooks, meal plans, comments, ratings, and personalization. ## Kin Score — 33.6 / 100 (thin) Scored 2026-08-19 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.2 from 33.4). | Facet | Score | |---|---| | Discoverability | 75.9 | | Contract Quality | 51.9 | | Governance | 16.7 | | Contract Governance | 16.7 | | Operational Transparency | 2.6 | | Developer Ergonomics | 8.9 | | Commercial Clarity | 44.7 | | Access Clarity | 44.7 | ## Agent readiness — 19.4 (agent-aware) | Dimension | Value | |---|---| | Spec Presence | yes | | Agentic Access | no | | Reversibility Documented | no | | MCP Server | no | | Auth Clarity | no | | Idempotency | no | | Error Semantics | no | | OpenAPI Examples | partial | | Rate Limit Signal | no | | Event Surface Described | no | | Agent Skills | derived | | 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 (37) - **Kitchen Stories Articles Admin API** — The Articles Admin API from Kitchen Stories — 1 operation(s) for articles admin. - **Kitchen Stories Articles API** — The Articles API from Kitchen Stories — 4 operation(s) for articles. - **Kitchen Stories Authentication API** — The Authentication API from Kitchen Stories — 10 operation(s) for authentication. - **Kitchen Stories Categories Admin API** — The Categories Admin API from Kitchen Stories — 1 operation(s) for categories admin. - **Kitchen Stories Categories API** — The Categories API from Kitchen Stories — 3 operation(s) for categories. - **Kitchen Stories Content Collections Admin API** — The Content Collections Admin API from Kitchen Stories — 4 operation(s) for content collections admin. - **Kitchen Stories Content Collections API** — The Content Collections API from Kitchen Stories — 4 operation(s) for content collections. - **Kitchen Stories Feed API** — The Feed API from Kitchen Stories — 2 operation(s) for feed. - **Kitchen Stories Indexer API** — The Indexer API from Kitchen Stories — 3 operation(s) for indexer. - **Kitchen Stories Ingredients API** — The Ingredients API from Kitchen Stories — 7 operation(s) for ingredients. - **Kitchen Stories Other API** — The Other API from Kitchen Stories — 5 operation(s) for other. - **Kitchen Stories Personalization Admin API** — The Personalization Admin API from Kitchen Stories — 4 operation(s) for personalization admin. - **Kitchen Stories Personalization API** — The Personalization API from Kitchen Stories — 8 operation(s) for personalization. - **Kitchen Stories QA API** — The QA API from Kitchen Stories — 4 operation(s) for qa. - **Kitchen Stories Recipes Admin API** — The Recipes Admin API from Kitchen Stories — 1 operation(s) for recipes admin. - **Kitchen Stories Recipes API** — The Recipes API from Kitchen Stories — 6 operation(s) for recipes. - **Kitchen Stories Reports API** — The Reports API from Kitchen Stories — 1 operation(s) for reports. - **Kitchen Stories Search Categories API** — The Search Categories API from Kitchen Stories — 2 operation(s) for search categories. - **Kitchen Stories Shopping Tips (Affiliate Pages) API** — The Shopping Tips (Affiliate Pages) API from Kitchen Stories — 3 operation(s) for shopping tips (affiliate pages). - **Kitchen Stories Stats API** — The Stats API from Kitchen Stories — 1 operation(s) for stats. - **Kitchen Stories Tags API** — The Tags API from Kitchen Stories — 2 operation(s) for tags. - **Kitchen Stories Upload API** — The Upload API from Kitchen Stories — 2 operation(s) for upload. - **Kitchen Stories User API** — The User API from Kitchen Stories — 2 operation(s) for user. - **Kitchen Stories User Comment Likes API** — The User Comment Likes API from Kitchen Stories — 2 operation(s) for user comment likes. - **Kitchen Stories User Comments API** — The User Comments API from Kitchen Stories — 3 operation(s) for user comments. - **Kitchen Stories User Cookbooks API** — The User Cookbooks API from Kitchen Stories — 5 operation(s) for user cookbooks. - **Kitchen Stories User External Recipes API** — The User External Recipes API from Kitchen Stories — 3 operation(s) for user external recipes. - **Kitchen Stories User Likes API** — The User Likes API from Kitchen Stories — 3 operation(s) for user likes. - **Kitchen Stories User Meal Plan API** — The User Meal Plan API from Kitchen Stories — 2 operation(s) for user meal plan. - **Kitchen Stories User Private Favorite Ingredients API** — The User Private Favorite Ingredients API from Kitchen Stories — 1 operation(s) for user private favorite ingredients. - **Kitchen Stories User Private Recipes API** — The User Private Recipes API from Kitchen Stories — 3 operation(s) for user private recipes. - **Kitchen Stories User Public Cookbooks API** — The User Public Cookbooks API from Kitchen Stories — 4 operation(s) for user public cookbooks. - **Kitchen Stories User Public Recipes API** — The User Public Recipes API from Kitchen Stories — 2 operation(s) for user public recipes. - **Kitchen Stories User Ratings API** — The User Ratings API from Kitchen Stories — 2 operation(s) for user ratings. - **Kitchen Stories UserCookbooksRecipes API** — The UserCookbooksRecipes API from Kitchen Stories — 2 operation(s) for usercookbooksrecipes. - **Kitchen Stories Utensils API** — The Utensils API from Kitchen Stories — 4 operation(s) for utensils. - **Kitchen Stories Videos API** — The Videos API from Kitchen Stories — 5 operation(s) for videos. ## MCP servers (1) - **kitchenstories-mcp.yml** ## Security (2) - **Kitchenstories Authentication** — http/apiKey · 2 schemes - **Kitchenstories Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC ## Tags Company, Food and Beverage, Recipes, Cooking, Media, Content, Consumer, Mobile, Video, Germany --- Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/kitchenstories/). 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