Lobsters

Lobsters is a technology-focused link aggregation and community discussion platform. Its public REST API provides access to stories, comments, tags, and user profiles, returning JSON representations of community-submitted technology links, ranked and filtered by the community.

Lobsters publishes 4 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Comments API, Stories API, Tags API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include Link Aggregation, Community, Technology, News, and Stories.

The Lobsters catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Lobsters’ developer surface includes GitHub presence and 6 more developer resources.

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36.1/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 22/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

AccessFree

4 APIs

Link AggregationCommunityTechnologyNewsStoriesCommentsTags

Kin Score

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

Composite quality — 36.1/100 · thin

Contract Quality 15.3 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13

Governance 7.0 / 12

Discoverability 7.4 / 10

Agent readiness — 22/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

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 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

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APIs 4

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

Lobsters Comments API

Community discussion comments on stories

Lobsters Stories API

Technology link aggregation stories submitted by the community

Lobsters Tags API

Community-maintained taxonomy tags for categorizing stories

Lobsters Users API

Lobsters user profiles

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Plans

1 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Lobsters Context

23 classes · 0 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Lobsters API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 4

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Comment

14 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Story

12 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Tag

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

User

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Examples 4

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Comment

14 fields

EXAMPLE

Story

12 fields

EXAMPLE

Tag

8 fields

EXAMPLE

User

10 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 2

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

Lobsters Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Lobsters Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Lobsters Agentic Access

8 operations

8 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHub

GitHub

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Company 1

The organization behind the API

About

About

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Tags

Source (apis.yml)

aid: lobsters
name: Lobsters
description: Lobsters is a technology-focused link aggregation and community discussion platform. Its public REST API provides
  access to stories, comments, tags, and user profiles, returning JSON representations of community-submitted technology links,
  ranked and filtered by the community.
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Free
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/lobsters.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/lobsters/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-06-13'
modified: '2026-06-13'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
type: Index
tags:
- Link Aggregation
- Community
- Technology
- News
- Stories
- Comments
- Tags
apis:
- aid: lobsters:lobsters-comments-api
  name: Lobsters Comments API
  description: Community discussion comments on stories
  humanURL: https://lobste.rs
  baseURL: https://lobste.rs
  tags:
  - Comments
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/lobsters-comments-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters
  - type: Plans
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/lobsters/refs/heads/main/plans/plans.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/lobsters/refs/heads/main/rate-limits/rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/lobsters/refs/heads/main/finops/finops.yml
- aid: lobsters:lobsters-stories-api
  name: Lobsters Stories API
  description: Technology link aggregation stories submitted by the community
  humanURL: https://lobste.rs
  baseURL: https://lobste.rs
  tags:
  - Stories
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/lobsters-stories-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters
  - type: Plans
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/lobsters/refs/heads/main/plans/plans.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/lobsters/refs/heads/main/rate-limits/rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/lobsters/refs/heads/main/finops/finops.yml
- aid: lobsters:lobsters-tags-api
  name: Lobsters Tags API
  description: Community-maintained taxonomy tags for categorizing stories
  humanURL: https://lobste.rs
  baseURL: https://lobste.rs
  tags:
  - Tags
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/lobsters-tags-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters
  - type: Plans
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/lobsters/refs/heads/main/plans/plans.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/lobsters/refs/heads/main/rate-limits/rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/lobsters/refs/heads/main/finops/finops.yml
- aid: lobsters:lobsters-users-api
  name: Lobsters Users API
  description: Lobsters user profiles
  humanURL: https://lobste.rs
  baseURL: https://lobste.rs
  tags:
  - Users
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/lobsters-users-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters
  - type: Plans
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/lobsters/refs/heads/main/plans/plans.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/lobsters/refs/heads/main/rate-limits/rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/lobsters/refs/heads/main/finops/finops.yml
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/lobsters-agentic-access.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/lobsters-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/lobsters-domain-security.yml
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters
- type: About
  url: https://lobste.rs/about
- type: Tags
  url: https://lobste.rs/tags
- type: RSS
  url: https://lobste.rs/rss
maintainers:
- FN: API Evangelist
  url: https://apievangelist.com
  email: info@apievangelist.com