Scribd

Scribd Inc. is an American digital-content media company founded in 2007 by Trip Adler, Jared Friedman and Tikhon Bernstam and headquartered in San Francisco, California. It operates four consumer platforms: Scribd (a document-sharing library), Everand (a subscription service for ebooks, audiobooks, magazines, podcasts and sheet music, formerly the flagship Scribd subscription), SlideShare (presentation hosting) and Fable (a social reading app). Scribd was an early Y Combinator company. Its historical public "Platform" API for uploading, converting and displaying documents is now legacy — the official Ruby client (scribd/rscribd) was archived in 2019, Scribd no longer accepts new API accounts, and the SlideShare developer portal has been retired — so this profile documents the company's identity and the remaining first-party developer artifacts rather than a live API surface.

Scribd is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Documents, Ebooks, Audiobooks, and Publishing.

Scribd’s developer surface includes documentation, support, engineering blog, pricing, and 9 more developer resources.

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15.1/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-21 · rubric v0.12.0
0 APIs
CompanyDocumentsEbooksAudiobooksPublishingContentSubscriptionMediaReading

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scored 2026-08-21 · rubric v0.12.0
Composite quality — 15.1/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 4.3 / 20
Access Clarity 5.5 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.3 / 13
Contract Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 5.0 / 10
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
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Security Posture 1

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

Scribd Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal
DeveloperPortal
 Login
Login

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization
GitHubOrganization
 Packages
Packages
 SDKs
SDKs

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support
Support

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing
Pricing
 TermsOfService
TermsOfService
 PrivacyPolicy
PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 Blog
Blog

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: scribd
name: Scribd
description: 'Scribd Inc. is an American digital-content media company founded in 2007 by Trip Adler, Jared Friedman and Tikhon
  Bernstam and headquartered in San Francisco, California. It operates four consumer platforms: Scribd (a document-sharing
  library), Everand (a subscription service for ebooks, audiobooks, magazines, podcasts and sheet music, formerly the flagship
  Scribd subscription), SlideShare (presentation hosting) and Fable (a social reading app). Scribd was an early Y Combinator
  company. Its historical public "Platform" API for uploading, converting and displaying documents is now legacy — the official
  Ruby client (scribd/rscribd) was archived in 2019, Scribd no longer accepts new API accounts, and the SlideShare developer
  portal has been retired — so this profile documents the company''s identity and the remaining first-party developer artifacts
  rather than a live API surface.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/scribd/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://logo.clearbit.com/scribd.com
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- y-combinator
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
tags:
- Company
- Documents
- Ebooks
- Audiobooks
- Publishing
- Content
- Subscription
- Media
- Reading
tags_raw:
- Company
- Documents
- eBooks
- Audiobooks
- Publishing
- Content
- Subscription
- Media
- Reading
apis: []
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/scribd-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.scribd.com
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://www.scribd.com/developers/platform/api
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.scribd.com/developers/platform/api
- type: Support
  url: https://support.scribd.com/hc/en-us
- type: Blog
  url: https://blog.scribd.com
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/scribd
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.scribd.com/subscribe
- type: Login
  url: https://www.scribd.com/login
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.scribd.com/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.scribd.com/privacy
- type: Packages
  url: packages/scribd-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/scribd-packages.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-21'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 2
  pass: local-v1

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