# ShortKit

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/shortkit/  
**Website:** https://www.shortkit.dev  
**APIs profiled:** 5

ShortKit is a Y Combinator-backed short-form vertical video platform that gives product teams a drop-in, TikTok-quality video experience without the infrastructure complexity. It ships native SDKs for iOS, Android, Flutter, React Native, Expo and Web alongside a REST API for managing content, direct uploads, live streams, in-feed surveys, analytics events and ad configuration. The platform handles adaptive-bitrate HLS transcoding, global CDN delivery across 300+ points of presence, automatic caption generation with language detection, protected/signed playback, and native ad insertion (Google Ad Manager / VAST / IMA). Developer docs are partner-gated but the Mintlify API reference and the iOS SDK are published openly on GitHub.

## Kin Score — 43.7 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 43.7).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 81.5 |
| Contract Quality | 62.8 |
| Governance | 16.7 |
| Contract Governance | 16.7 |
| Operational Transparency | 10.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 37.5 |
| Commercial Clarity | 44.7 |
| Access Clarity | 44.7 |

## Agent readiness — 25.0 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | documented |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | yes |
| Agent Skills | derived |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (5)

- **ShortKit Ad Configuration API** — How ad slots are interleaved into the feed.
- **ShortKit Analytics API** — Events and metrics for user interaction with your content.
- **ShortKit Content API** — Videos, image carousels, and video carousels in your feed.
- **ShortKit Live Streams API** — Real-time broadcasts that appear in the feed alongside on-demand content.
- **ShortKit Surveys API** — Short polls injected between content items in the feed.

## MCP servers (1)

- **ShortKit MCP Server**

## Security (2)

- **Shortkit Authentication** — apiKey/http · 2 schemes
- **Shortkit Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Video, Short-Form Video, Video SDK, Streaming, Live Streaming, Content Delivery, Analytics, Advertising, Y Combinator

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