# Lynda.com

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/lyndacom/  
**Website:** http://www.lynda.com  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Lynda.com was an online video learning platform founded in 1995 by Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin, offering courses in software, creative, and business skills. LinkedIn acquired Lynda.com in 2015 (~$1.5B) and folded it into LinkedIn Learning; the standalone Lynda.com service has been retired and www.lynda.com now 301-redirects to linkedin.com/learning. The brand exposes no public developer program or API surface of its own. This profile was surfaced as an Accel portfolio company and enriched as a lead; the honest result is a defunct brand with no first-party API.

## Kin Score — 2.5 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 2.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 11.1 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (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 | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (1)

- **Lyndacom Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Consumer, Education, EdTech, Online Learning, Video Courses, Acquired, LinkedIn

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