NinjaBlocks

Ninja Blocks Inc was an Australian Internet-of-Things startup (founded 2012, backed by 500 Global / 500 Startups) behind the Ninja Block and Ninja Sphere home-automation hubs. It offered a cloud-connected platform with a RESTful API (base https://api.ninja.is/rest/v0/) for reading sensor data and controlling actuators, plus first-party client libraries for Node.js, PHP, Ruby, Lua and Arduino, a `ninja-toolbelt` CLI, and OAuth-based authentication. The company ceased operation and its web and API hosts are no longer online; this profile preserves the surviving first-party open-source client libraries and API tooling published to npm and GitHub. Added to the API Evangelist network from the 500 Global portfolio and enriched from public package registries and the github.com/ninjablocks organization.

NinjaBlocks publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, IoT, Home Automation, Smart Home, and Sensors.

NinjaBlocks’ developer surface includes CLI and 7 more developer resources.

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0.0/100 minimal Agent 0/100 human only self hosted · MIT Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-25 · rubric v0.23.0

1 APIs

Company IoT Home Automation Smart Home Sensors Hardware REST API Defunct

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scored 2026-09-25 · rubric v0.23.0

Composite quality — 0.0/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 17

Access Clarity 0.0 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 0.0 / 9

Regulatory Posture 0.0 / 15

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

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 0 / 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

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

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Ninja Blocks REST API

Historical RESTful API for the Ninja Blocks IoT platform, used to read device/sensor data and actuate devices. No longer operational; documented here from surviving first-party ...

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Company 1

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Website

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Source (apis.yml)

aid: ninjablocks
name: NinjaBlocks
description: Ninja Blocks Inc was an Australian Internet-of-Things startup (founded 2012, backed by 500 Global / 500 Startups)
  behind the Ninja Block and Ninja Sphere home-automation hubs. It offered a cloud-connected platform with a RESTful API (base
  https://api.ninja.is/rest/v0/) for reading sensor data and controlling actuators, plus first-party client libraries for
  Node.js, PHP, Ruby, Lua and Arduino, a `ninja-toolbelt` CLI, and OAuth-based authentication. The company ceased operation
  and its web and API hosts are no longer online; this profile preserves the surviving first-party open-source client libraries
  and API tooling published to npm and GitHub. Added to the API Evangelist network from the 500 Global portfolio and enriched
  from public package registries and the github.com/ninjablocks organization.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ninjablocks/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- 500-global
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: defunct
deliveryModel:
  model: self-hosted
  license: MIT
  open_source: true
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Self-hosted open source · you run it yourself
  confidence: high
  source:
  - license
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
image: https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1387630?v=4
tags:
- Company
- IoT
- Home Automation
- Smart Home
- Sensors
- Hardware
- REST API
- Defunct
tags_raw:
- Company
- Internet of Things
- IoT
- Home Automation
- Smart Home
- Sensors
- Hardware
- REST API
- Defunct
apis:
- name: Ninja Blocks REST API
  description: Historical RESTful API for the Ninja Blocks IoT platform, used to read device/sensor data and actuate devices.
    No longer operational; documented here from surviving first-party client libraries.
  humanURL: https://github.com/ninjablocks/developer-docs
  baseURL: https://api.ninja.is/rest/v0/
  tags:
  - IoT
  - REST API
  properties:
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/ninjablocks/node-ninja-blocks
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: IssueTracker
  url: https://github.com/ninjablocks/node-ninja-blocks/issues
- type: License
  name: MIT
  url: https://github.com/ninjablocks/node-ninja-blocks/blob/master/LICENSE
- type: Website
  url: https://ninjablocks.com
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/ninjablocks
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/ninjablocks
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/ninjablocks-packages.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/ninjablocks-packages.yml
- type: CLI
  url: cli/ninjablocks-cli.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 2
  pass: local-v1

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