Kodi

Kodi is an open-source home theater software project that provides a media center platform for playing videos, music, pictures, and games on a wide range of devices and operating systems. It supports a large catalog of community add-ons, offers a customizable 10-foot user interface for TVs, and enables streaming, live TV, and media library management. The project is maintained by the non-profit Kodi Foundation and a global volunteer community, emphasizing openness, extensibility, and cross‑platform compatibility.

Kodi is listed with 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Media, Home-Theater, Open-Source, Entertainment, and Software.

Kodi’s developer surface includes documentation, engineering blog, getting-started guide, and 11 more developer resources.

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20.8/100 emerging Agent 5/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-10-31 · rubric v0.25.0 · Show this score on your site →
1 API
MediaHome-TheaterOpen-SourceEntertainmentSoftware

Kin Score

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-10-31 · rubric v0.25.0
Composite quality — 20.8/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 0.0 / 21
Developer Ergonomics 5.7 / 17
Access Clarity 3.6 / 17
Operational Transparency 2.3 / 11
Contract Governance 0.0 / 10
Discoverability 5.0 / 9
Regulatory Posture 3.5 / 15
Agent readiness — 5/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
Documented Reversibility 0 / 6
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 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
Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.
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.
The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.
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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
  • 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
  • Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
  • 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
11 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.
Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):
Each check links to what satisfies it. Publish the artifact, or tell us where it already lives, and the score moves on the next scoring run.
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APIs 1

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

Kodi Developer Resources

Kodi offers developer resources and documentation but does not publish a public API contract.

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Kodi Plans Pricing

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Kodi Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

Security Posture 2

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

Kodi Authentication

0 schemes

SECURITY

Kodi Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Kodi Scopes

OAuth 2.0 · no documented scopes

0 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal
DeveloperPortal
 GettingStarted
GettingStarted

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization
GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity
 DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

StatusPage
StatusPage

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService
TermsOfService
 PrivacyPolicy
PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 Blog
Blog

Other 3

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Hosts
Hosts
 Vendors
Vendors
 Leadership
Leadership

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: kodi
name: Kodi
description: Kodi is an open-source home theater software project that provides a media center platform for playing videos,
  music, pictures, and games on a wide range of devices and operating systems. It supports a large catalog of community add-ons,
  offers a customizable 10-foot user interface for TVs, and enables streaming, live TV, and media library management. The
  project is maintained by the non-profit Kodi Foundation and a global volunteer community, emphasizing openness, extensibility,
  and cross‑platform compatibility.
url: https://artifacts.apis.io/kodi/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'
tags:
- Media
- Home-Theater
- Open-Source
- Entertainment
- Software
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
image: https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/199122?v=4
common:
- type: Hosts
  url: hosts/kodi-hosts.yml
- type: Vendors
  url: vendors/kodi-vendors.yml
- type: Leadership
  url: https://kodi.tv/about/team
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/kodi-domain-security.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/kodi-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://kodi.tv/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://dev-kit.kodi.tv/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.kodi.tv/
- type: Blog
  url: https://kodi.tv/blog
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/xbmc
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.kodi.tv/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://kodi.tv/about/terms-of-service
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://kodi.tv/about/privacy-policy
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://kodi.tv/download
apis:
- name: Kodi Developer Resources
  description: Kodi offers developer resources and documentation but does not publish a public API contract.
  humanURL: https://kodi.tv/contribute/developers
  aid: kodi:kodi-developer-resources
x-coverage:
  state: unreadable
  reason: no-machine-readable-spec
  detail: Kodi provides developer documentation but does not publish any machine‑readable API specification.
  evidence:
  - url: https://kodi.tv/contribute/developers
    status: 200
  checked: '2026-10-28'
x-submission-probe: 403, 2026-10-26
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-10-28'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 21
  pass: modular-v1
  engine: identity=oss,contract=oss,surfaces=oss,docs=oss,regulatory=oss

Kodi API — frequently asked questions

Does Kodi have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from Kodi, including Kodi Developer Resources.

How do I authenticate with the Kodi API?

Kodi documents its authentication (0 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Kodi Authentication.

Is the Kodi API ready for AI agents?

Kodi has a Kin Score of 20.8 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 5.4 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-10-31.

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