# Lobsters

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/lobsters/  
**APIs profiled:** 4

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.

## Kin Score — 30.9 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 30.9).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 58.0 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 15.8 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.9 |
| Access Clarity | 28.9 |

## Agent readiness — 24.5 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | na |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | na |
| 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 | na |

## Access

Free — onboarding: unknown, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (4)

- **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

## Agentic access (1)

- **Lobsters Agentic Access** — 8 operations

## Security (2)

- **Lobsters Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Lobsters Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published

## Plans (1)

- **Plans**

## Tags

Link Aggregation, Community, Technology, News, Stories, Comments, Tags

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