Philo

Philo is a US live-television streaming service founded at Harvard in 2010 as Tivli, renamed in 2013 after television inventor Philo T. Farnsworth, and launched to the public in 2017. Headquartered at 225 Green Street in San Francisco, it delivers 70+ entertainment and lifestyle channels, 75,000+ on-demand titles, 120+ free ad-supported channels, and unlimited one-year DVR from $25/month across web, iOS, Android, Roku, Fire TV, Apple TV and Chromecast, with TV Everywhere sign-in to partner network apps. Philo publishes no public developer program: its product GraphQL endpoint at www.philo.com/graphql is live but has introspection disabled, and the only machine-readable documents it serves are IAB Tech Lab advertising-transparency files (ads.txt, app-ads.txt, sellers.json), an RFC 9116 security.txt, and an Instatus status page with a JSON API.

Philo is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Streaming, Television, Video, and Media.

Philo’s developer surface includes support, engineering blog, pricing, signup flow, and 17 more developer resources.

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21.6/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-17 · rubric v0.11.0
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CompanyStreamingTelevisionVideoMediaEntertainmentLive TVAdvertisingConsumer

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scored 2026-08-17 · rubric v0.11.0
Composite quality — 21.6/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 1.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 8.9 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.1 / 13
Governance 1.5 / 12
Discoverability 5.7 / 10
Agent readiness — 3/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 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 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 3 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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Security Posture 2

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

Philo Domain Security

TLSv1.2 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Philo Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

SignUp
SignUp
 Login
Login

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown
WellKnown
 LLMsTxt
LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conformance
Conformance
 Lifecycle
Lifecycle

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization
GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Security
Security
 SecurityTxt
SecurityTxt
 VulnerabilityDisclosure
VulnerabilityDisclosure
 DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support
Support
 HelpCenter
HelpCenter
 StatusPage
StatusPage

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing
Pricing
 TermsOfService
TermsOfService
 PrivacyPolicy
PrivacyPolicy

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 About
About
 Blog
Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

SecondaryMarket
SecondaryMarket

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: philo
name: Philo
description: 'Philo is a US live-television streaming service founded at Harvard in 2010 as Tivli, renamed in 2013 after television
  inventor Philo T. Farnsworth, and launched to the public in 2017. Headquartered at 225 Green Street in San Francisco, it
  delivers 70+ entertainment and lifestyle channels, 75,000+ on-demand titles, 120+ free ad-supported channels, and unlimited
  one-year DVR from $25/month across web, iOS, Android, Roku, Fire TV, Apple TV and Chromecast, with TV Everywhere sign-in
  to partner network apps. Philo publishes no public developer program: its product GraphQL endpoint at www.philo.com/graphql
  is live but has introspection disabled, and the only machine-readable documents it serves are IAB Tech Lab advertising-transparency
  files (ads.txt, app-ads.txt, sellers.json), an RFC 9116 security.txt, and an Instatus status page with a JSON API.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/philo/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
image: https://prod-s.cdn-cf.philo.com/storage/images/maestro/web/philo-opengraph.png
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-08-05'
modified: '2026-08-05'
tags:
- Company
- Streaming
- Television
- Video
- Media
- Entertainment
- Live TV
- Advertising
- Consumer
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.philo.com/
- type: About
  url: https://www.philo.com/about
- type: Support
  url: https://help.philo.com/
- type: HelpCenter
  url: https://help.philo.com/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.philo.com/blog
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.philo.com/go/pricing
- type: SignUp
  url: https://www.philo.com/login/subscribe
- type: Login
  url: https://www.philo.com/login
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.philo.com/about/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.philo.com/about/privacy
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/PhiloInc
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.philo.com/
- type: Security
  url: https://www.philo.com/.well-known/security.txt
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/philo-security.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/philo-well-known.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/philo-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/philo-domain-security.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/philo-conformance.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/philo-lifecycle.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/philo-llms.txt
- type: SecondaryMarket
  url: https://forgeglobal.com/philo_stock/
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-05'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 11
  pass: local-v1
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: no-developer-program
  detail: Philo ships only a consumer streaming product — there is no developer.philo.com or api.philo.com (neither hostname
    resolves), and the one API-shaped surface, the Apollo GraphQL endpoint its own apps call at www.philo.com/graphql, answers
    200 but rejects introspection with "GraphQL introspection has been disabled".
  evidence:
  - url: https://www.philo.com/graphql
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.philo.com/openapi.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.philo.com/.well-known/api-catalog
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.philo.com/.well-known/security.txt
    status: 200
  checked: '2026-08-05'