# Pinboard

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/pinboard/  
**Website:** https://pinboard.in/  
**APIs profiled:** 1

Pinboard is a social bookmarking service designed for introverts, allowing users to save, tag, and share web pages. It offers a simple, read‑only API for retrieving bookmarks, adding new ones, managing tags, and searching. The service emphasizes privacy, minimalism, and long‑term storage, and provides paid plans for unlimited bookmarks. Its API documentation is publicly available at https://pinboard.in/api/.

## Kin Score — 29.0 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-10-31 under rubric 0.25.0.

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 66.1 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 15.8 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 52.4 |
| Access Clarity | 34.2 |

Regulatory layer — **Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform)**: 35.3 (matched via fallback).

## Agent readiness — 5.4 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | bearer |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | documented |
| 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 |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |
| Pagination Ratio | na |
| Operation Distinctiveness | na |

## APIs (1)

- **Pinboard API** — Pinboard provides a read‑only API (v1) for accessing bookmarks, notes, tags and user data. All methods are GET and return XML or JSON.

## Security (3)

- **Pinboard Authentication** — 2 schemes
- **Pinboard Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS
- **Pinboard Vulnerability Disclosure** — no policy recorded

## Tags

Company, Bookmarking, Social, API, Productivity, Web

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