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Olark

Olark is a live chat and AI-powered customer communication platform that enables businesses to engage website visitors in real time through chat, chatbots, WhatsApp, and SMS. The platform combines human support with CoPilot automation for capturing leads, driving sales, and providing 24/7 customer service, and is WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility certified. Olark exposes a browser-side JavaScript API for embedding and customizing the chat widget, plus webhooks and integrations with 100+ external tools.

Olark publishes 5 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Box API, Chat API, Configure API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include Live Chat, Customer Support, Chatbots, Customer Engagement, and Messaging.

Olark’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, pricing, signup flow, engineering blog, and 7 more developer resources.

29.5/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 28/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
AccessSelf serve
6 APIs
Live ChatCustomer SupportChatbotsCustomer EngagementMessagingAccessibility

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
Composite quality — 29.5/100 · thin
Contract Quality 14.5 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 5.7 / 20
Commercial Clarity 2.1 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 7.4 / 10
Agent readiness — 28/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 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
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APIs 6

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

Olark JavaScript API

Browser-side JavaScript API for controlling the Olark chat widget, including chatbox appearance and behavior, chat conversations, visitor information, attention grabber, greeter...

Olark Box API

Chatbox visibility and lifecycle

Olark Chat API

Chat conversation and operator control

Olark Configure API

Pre-load configuration

Olark Rules API

Targeted chat rules

Olark Visitor API

Visitor profile updates

Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Olark JavaScript API

OPEN COLLECTION

GraphQL 1

GraphQL schemas published by this provider.

Olark GraphQL Schema

This document describes a conceptual GraphQL schema for the Olark live chat and customer support platform. The schema is derived from the [Olark REST API](https://www.olark.com/...

GRAPHQL

Security Posture 3

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

Olark Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Olark Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

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

Olark Agentic Access

15 operations · 15 acting

15 operations · 15 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: olark
name: Olark
description: Olark is a live chat and AI-powered customer communication platform that enables businesses to engage website
  visitors in real time through chat, chatbots, WhatsApp, and SMS. The platform combines human support with CoPilot automation
  for capturing leads, driving sales, and providing 24/7 customer service, and is WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility certified. Olark
  exposes a browser-side JavaScript API for embedding and customizing the chat widget, plus webhooks and integrations with
  100+ external tools.
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/olark.png
tags:
- Live Chat
- Customer Support
- Chatbots
- Customer Engagement
- Messaging
- Accessibility
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/olark/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-05-11'
modified: '2026-05-11'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: olark:javascript-api
  name: Olark JavaScript API
  description: Browser-side JavaScript API for controlling the Olark chat widget, including chatbox appearance and behavior,
    chat conversations, visitor information, attention grabber, greeter and pre-chat surveys, targeted chat rules, and integrations.
    Authentication is configured via an Olark site identifier passed to olark.identify().
  humanURL: https://www.olark.com/api
  baseURL: https://www.olark.com/api
  tags:
  - Live Chat
  - JavaScript
  - Widget
  - Customer Engagement
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.olark.com/api
  - url: graphql/olark-graphql.md
    type: GraphQL
- aid: olark:olark-box-api
  name: Olark Box API
  description: Chatbox visibility and lifecycle
  humanURL: https://www.olark.com/api
  baseURL: https://www.olark.com/api
  tags:
  - Box
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/olark-box-api-openapi.yml
- aid: olark:olark-chat-api
  name: Olark Chat API
  description: Chat conversation and operator control
  humanURL: https://www.olark.com/api
  baseURL: https://www.olark.com/api
  tags:
  - Chat
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/olark-chat-api-openapi.yml
- aid: olark:olark-configure-api
  name: Olark Configure API
  description: Pre-load configuration
  humanURL: https://www.olark.com/api
  baseURL: https://www.olark.com/api
  tags:
  - Configure
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/olark-configure-api-openapi.yml
- aid: olark:olark-rules-api
  name: Olark Rules API
  description: Targeted chat rules
  humanURL: https://www.olark.com/api
  baseURL: https://www.olark.com/api
  tags:
  - Rules
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/olark-rules-api-openapi.yml
- aid: olark:olark-visitor-api
  name: Olark Visitor API
  description: Visitor profile updates
  humanURL: https://www.olark.com/api
  baseURL: https://www.olark.com/api
  tags:
  - Visitor
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/olark-visitor-api-openapi.yml
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/olark-agentic-access.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/olark-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/olark-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/olark-authentication.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/olark
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/olark
- type: Website
  url: https://www.olark.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.olark.com/help
- type: API Documentation
  url: https://www.olark.com/api
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.olark.com/pricing
- type: Signup
  url: https://www.olark.com/signup
- type: Blog
  url: https://blog.olark.com/rss.xml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com