Kuaishou Technology (快手) is a Beijing-based short-video and live-streaming platform operating Kuaishou in mainland China and Kwai internationally, spanning short video, live commerce, local services and online marketing. Its developer surface is split across two public properties: the Kuaishou Open Platform (open.kuaishou.com), which exposes an OAuth 2.0 authorization-code flow and a JSON Open API for third-party apps, mini programs and merchant integrations; and Kwai for Business (developers.kwai.com), the international marketing/advertising API used by advertisers and measurement partners. A third and markedly more open surface is Kling AI (kling.ai), Kuaishou's generative video and image platform, which ships an asynchronous REST API, an official CLI, a hosted MCP server with published OAuth scopes, and the only llms.txt Kuaishou serves anywhere. Kuaishou also publishes open source under the Kwai GitHub organization. The Open Platform console and the Kwai for Business portal are JavaScript single-page applications, largely Chinese-language and gated behind developer registration, but the mini-program documentation subtree at open.kuaishou.com/docs is server-rendered and publicly readable, so this profile records endpoints and pages verified by live HTTP probe or read from that subtree.
Kuaishou publishes 3 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Consumer, Social, Video, and Short Video.
Kuaishou’s developer surface includes support, authentication, CLI, changelog, documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, and 23 more developer resources.
The Kuaishou Open Platform (快手开放平台) exposes a JSON HTTP API for third-party applications, mini programs and merchant tools built on Kuaishou. Access is granted through a standar...
Kwai for Business is Kuaishou's international advertising and marketing platform for the Kwai app. Its developer portal at developers.kwai.com documents a marketing API served f...
Kling AI (可灵) is Kuaishou Technology's generative video and image platform, launched in June 2024 and, by the company's own account, responsible for over 600 million generated v...
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name: Kuaishou
description: 'Kuaishou Technology (快手) is a Beijing-based short-video and live-streaming platform operating Kuaishou in mainland
China and Kwai internationally, spanning short video, live commerce, local services and online marketing. Its developer
surface is split across two public properties: the Kuaishou Open Platform (open.kuaishou.com), which exposes an OAuth 2.0
authorization-code flow and a JSON Open API for third-party apps, mini programs and merchant integrations; and Kwai for
Business (developers.kwai.com), the international marketing/advertising API used by advertisers and measurement partners.
A third and markedly more open surface is Kling AI (kling.ai), Kuaishou''s generative video and image platform, which ships
an asynchronous REST API, an official CLI, a hosted MCP server with published OAuth scopes, and the only llms.txt Kuaishou
serves anywhere. Kuaishou also publishes open source under the Kwai GitHub organization. The Open Platform console and the
Kwai for Business portal are JavaScript single-page applications, largely Chinese-language and gated behind developer registration,
but the mini-program documentation subtree at open.kuaishou.com/docs is server-rendered and publicly readable, so this profile
records endpoints and pages verified by live HTTP probe or read from that subtree.'
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- dcm-ventures
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commercial: true
callable_host: false
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tags:
- Company
- Consumer
- Social
- Video
- Short Video
- Live Streaming
- Advertising
- Marketing
- Social-Media
- Content
- China
- Artificial Intelligence
- Generative AI
- Machine-Learning
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apis:
- aid: kuaishou:open-platform
name: Kuaishou Open Platform API
description: The Kuaishou Open Platform (快手开放平台) exposes a JSON HTTP API for third-party applications, mini programs and
merchant tools built on Kuaishou. Access is granted through a standard OAuth 2.0 authorization-code flow (/oauth2/authorize
plus /oauth2/access_token) and API calls are made against the /openapi path. Responses use a Kuaishou-specific envelope
carrying a numeric result code, an error_msg and a request_id for support correlation.
humanURL: https://open.kuaishou.com/
baseURL: https://open.kuaishou.com/openapi
tags:
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- Social
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- type: DeveloperPortal
url: https://open.kuaishou.com/
- type: Authentication
url: authentication/kuaishou-authentication.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
url: errors/kuaishou-error-codes.yml
- type: Conventions
url: conventions/kuaishou-conventions.yml
- aid: kuaishou:kwai-for-business
name: Kwai for Business Marketing API
description: Kwai for Business is Kuaishou's international advertising and marketing platform for the Kwai app. Its developer
portal at developers.kwai.com documents a marketing API served from the /rest/n/mapi path, used by advertisers, agencies
and measurement partners for campaign, creative and reporting workflows. The service returns a JSON error envelope (timestamp,
status, error, message, path) on unrouted requests.
humanURL: https://developers.kwai.com/
baseURL: https://developers.kwai.com/rest/n/mapi
tags:
- Advertising
- Marketing
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- type: DeveloperPortal
url: https://developers.kwai.com/
- type: Conventions
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- aid: kuaishou:kling-ai
name: Kling AI API
description: Kling AI (可灵) is Kuaishou Technology's generative video and image platform, launched in June 2024 and, by the
company's own account, responsible for over 600 million generated videos and 30,000+ enterprise customers. It exposes
an asynchronous REST API for text-to-video, image-to-video, text-to-image, image editing, motion control and virtual try-on,
served from api-singapore.klingai.com globally and api-beijing.klingai.com in China, authenticated with a self-signed
JWT built from an Access Key ID and Secret. Callers select a generation model by API ID (kling-v3, kling-v3-omni, kling-video-o1,
kling-v2-6 and earlier), submit a task, then poll by generationId. Kuaishou also runs a hosted MCP server for the same
capability set at https://kling.ai/mcp, gated by an OAuth 2.1-style authorization-code flow with PKCE and dynamic client
registration, and ships an official CLI (@klingai/cli-global) that is a thin client over it. Kling AI is the only Kuaishou
property that publishes an llms.txt, RFC 9728 protected-resource metadata and RFC 8414 authorization-server metadata.
humanURL: https://kling.ai/dev
baseURL: https://api-singapore.klingai.com
tags:
- Artificial Intelligence
- Generative AI
- Video
- Image
- Machine-Learning
- MCP
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- AI
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- Image
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- type: DeveloperPortal
url: https://kling.ai/dev
- type: Documentation
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- type: Pricing
url: https://kling.ai/dev/pricing
- type: ChangeLog
url: https://kling.ai/release-note/release-history
- type: MCPServer
url: mcp/kuaishou-kling-mcp.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
url: scopes/kuaishou-scopes.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
url: llms/kuaishou-kling-llms.txt
- type: Authentication
url: authentication/kuaishou-authentication.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
url: errors/kuaishou-error-codes.yml
- type: Conventions
url: conventions/kuaishou-conventions.yml
- type: AgentSkill
url: skills/kuaishou-kling-generate-and-poll.md
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
url: security/kuaishou-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
url: https://www.kuaishou.com/
- type: DeveloperPortal
url: https://open.kuaishou.com/
- type: GitHubOrganization
url: https://github.com/kwai
- type: Support
url: https://www.kuaishou.com/about/contact
- type: HelpCenter
url: https://www.kuaishou.com/help/feedback
- type: TermsOfService
url: https://www.kuaishou.com/about/policy?tab=protocol
- type: PrivacyPolicy
url: https://www.kuaishou.com/about/policy?tab=privacy
- type: Authentication
url: authentication/kuaishou-authentication.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
url: errors/kuaishou-error-codes.yml
- type: Conventions
url: conventions/kuaishou-conventions.yml
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/kuaishou-conformance.yml
- type: Packages
url: packages/kuaishou-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
url: packages/kuaishou-packages.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
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- type: WellKnown
url: well-known/kuaishou-well-known.yml
- type: MCPServer
url: mcp/kuaishou-kling-mcp.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
url: scopes/kuaishou-scopes.yml
- type: AgentSkill
url: skills/_index.yml
- type: CLI
url: cli/kuaishou-cli.yml
- type: Components
url: components/kuaishou-components.yml
- type: Plans
url: plans/kuaishou-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
url: rate-limits/kuaishou-rate-limits.yml
- type: Lifecycle
url: lifecycle/kuaishou-lifecycle.yml
- type: ChangeLog
url: changelog/kuaishou-changelog.yml
- type: Documentation
url: https://open.kuaishou.com/docs
- type: APIReference
url: https://open.kuaishou.com/docs/develop/server/code2Session.html
- type: GettingStarted
url: https://open.kuaishou.com/docs/introduction/quickStartGuide/quickStart.html
- type: Pricing
url: https://kling.ai/dev/pricing
- type: Blog
url: https://kling.ai/blog
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date: '2026-08-12'
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pass: local-v1
note: 'Round 2 found a third API surface — Kling AI (kling.ai), which the provider''s own llms.txt attributes to Kuaishou
Technology — carrying a hosted MCP server at https://kling.ai/mcp with RFC 9728/RFC 8414 metadata and three published
OAuth scopes, an official CLI on npm, and a full public price list. It also corrected round 1''s finding that the Kuaishou
developer docs are uncrawlable: the mini-program subtree at open.kuaishou.com/docs is server-rendered and yielded the
published error-code tables, rate limits, CLI reference and component library. Still no OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, security.txt,
agent card, status page or trust center anywhere.'
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