# Lightcast

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/lightcast/  
**APIs profiled:** 1

Lightcast (formerly Emsi Burning Glass) provides labor market data and analytics including the Career Coach Careers API, a RESTful service that contains economic data for careers stored in JSON format.

## Kin Score — 10.7 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-30 under rubric 0.17.2. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 10.7).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 57.4 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 10.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 2.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 15.8 |
| Access Clarity | 15.8 |

## Agent readiness — 2.5 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (1)

- **Lightcast Careers API** — The Career Coach Careers API is a RESTful API service that contains economic data for all careers in the Career Coach app stored in JSON format.

## Security (1)

- **Lightcast Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS

## Plans (1)

- **Lightcast Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Careers, Economics, Labor Market, Workforce

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/lightcast/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.