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 saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

0 APIs

Company Documents Ebooks Audiobooks Publishing Content Subscription Media Reading

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

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

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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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

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)

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
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  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
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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