SkimBit

SkimBit Ltd, operating as Skimlinks, is a London-founded content-monetization and affiliate-marketing platform (now part of Taboola) that helps publishers and content creators earn commerce revenue from the products and merchants they mention in editorial content. Skimlinks automatically affiliates outbound merchant links, tracks the resulting clicks and commissions across thousands of affiliate networks and merchant programs, and pays publishers a share of the revenue. For developers, Skimlinks exposes a suite of publisher-facing REST APIs — the Merchant API (merchant programs, domains, verticals and offers), the Reporting API (raw commissions, aggregated performance, trending/purchased products, payment status and deactivated merchants) and the Product Key API (product details, pricing, availability and merchant alternatives across a billion+ product offers) — plus the Skimlinks JavaScript on-page monetization script and a batch Data Pipe delivering event-level clicks, impressions, commissions and product-purchase data to cloud storage.

SkimBit publishes 8 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Commissions API, Domains API, Merchants API, and 5 more. Tagged areas include Company, Affiliate Marketing, Content Monetization, Commerce, and Publishers.

The SkimBit catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

SkimBit’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, signup flow, support, engineering blog, authentication, and 26 more developer resources.

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46.4/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 26/100 agent aware Front door AI 1/6 silent saas Full breakdown ↓
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3 published contracts 3 Agent Skills

Company Affiliate Marketing Content Monetization Commerce Publishers Advertising Retail Reporting Product E-Commerce

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 46.4/100 · developing

Contract Quality 10.7 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 7.1 / 15

Access Clarity 5.1 / 15

Operational Transparency 3.9 / 10

Contract Governance 1.6 / 9

Discoverability 5.9 / 8

Regulatory Posture 3.7 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 26/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 6 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 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

Pagination 0 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document
Delegated User Identity +6 pts — a served discovery document listing authorization_code in grant_types_supported (served), else an oauth2 authorizationCode flow or openIdConnect declared in an OpenAPI (documented)
Documented Reversibility +6 pts — a reversal operation in the contract, graded up when a window is documented too

6 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Access Clarity scores 34.2 — up to +13.2 composite points
Contract Quality scores 57.0 — up to +10.8 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 47.0 — up to +10.6 composite points

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Standards implemented 2

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

OAuth 2.0

measured — observed by APIs.io (declared)

APIs 8

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

SkimBit Commissions API

The Commissions API from SkimBit — 1 operation(s) for commissions.

SkimBit Domains API

The Domains API from SkimBit — 1 operation(s) for domains.

SkimBit Merchants API

The Merchants API from SkimBit — 1 operation(s) for merchants.

SkimBit Offers API

The Offers API from SkimBit — 1 operation(s) for offers.

SkimBit Payments API

The Payments API from SkimBit — 1 operation(s) for payments.

SkimBit Products API

The Products API from SkimBit — 4 operation(s) for products.

SkimBit Reports API

The Reports API from SkimBit — 8 operation(s) for reports.

SkimBit Verticals API

The Verticals API from SkimBit — 2 operation(s) for verticals.

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Open Collections 8

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Skimlinks Merchant Commissions API

OPEN COLLECTION

Skimlinks Merchant Commissions Domains API

OPEN COLLECTION

Skimlinks Merchant Commissions Merchants API

OPEN COLLECTION

Skimlinks Merchant Commissions Offers API

OPEN COLLECTION

Skimlinks Merchant Commissions Payments API

OPEN COLLECTION

Skimlinks Merchant Commissions Products API

OPEN COLLECTION

Skimlinks Merchant Commissions Reports API

OPEN COLLECTION

Skimlinks Merchant Commissions Verticals API

OPEN COLLECTION

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Agent Skills 3

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

Discover Skimlinks merchants and offers

AGENT SKILL

Enrich content with Skimlinks Product Key

AGENT SKILL

Pull Skimlinks performance and commissions

AGENT SKILL

SkimBit API pricing

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Skimbit Plans Pricing

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Skimbit Rate Limits

6 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Skimbit Finops

FINOPS

Event Specifications 1

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Skimlinks Data Pipe

The Skimlinks Data Pipe is the event-level data surface behind the Skimlinks affiliate platform: impressions, clicks, commissions and products purchased, cleaned and exported da...

ASYNCAPI

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

SkimBit API Rules

60 rules · 55 errors 1 warnings 4 info

SPECTRAL

OpenAPI Overlays 3

Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.

Skimbit Merchant Overlay

1 action · update · skimbit-merchant-openapi.yml

DERIVED

Skimbit Product Key Overlay

1 action · update · skimbit-product-key-openapi.yml

DERIVED

Skimbit Reporting Overlay

1 action · update · skimbit-reporting-openapi.yml

DERIVED

Security Posture 2

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

Skimbit Authentication

apiKey/oauth2-like-client-credentials · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Skimbit Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Skimbit Agentic Access

19 operations

19 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

SignUp

SignUp

Login

Documentation 4

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

APIReference

AsyncAPI

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

X-MCPServerCandidate

LLMsTxt

AgenticAccess

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 6

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

ErrorCatalog

Lifecycle

DataModel

Conformance

Components

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Packages

Packages

ToolCrosswalk

ToolCrosswalk

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

RateLimits

RateLimits

Deprecation

Deprecation

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

Plans

Plans

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 3

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Overlay

Overlay

Overlay

Overlay

Overlay

Overlay

Source (apis.yml)

aid: skimbit
name: SkimBit
description: SkimBit Ltd, operating as Skimlinks, is a London-founded content-monetization and affiliate-marketing platform
  (now part of Taboola) that helps publishers and content creators earn commerce revenue from the products and merchants they
  mention in editorial content. Skimlinks automatically affiliates outbound merchant links, tracks the resulting clicks and
  commissions across thousands of affiliate networks and merchant programs, and pays publishers a share of the revenue. For
  developers, Skimlinks exposes a suite of publisher-facing REST APIs — the Merchant API (merchant programs, domains, verticals
  and offers), the Reporting API (raw commissions, aggregated performance, trending/purchased products, payment status and
  deactivated merchants) and the Product Key API (product details, pricing, availability and merchant alternatives across
  a billion+ product offers) — plus the Skimlinks JavaScript on-page monetization script and a batch Data Pipe delivering
  event-level clicks, impressions, commissions and product-purchase data to cloud storage.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/skimbit/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://www.skimlinks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Colour_icon.svg
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- 500-global
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-08-13'
x-docs-platform: scalar
x-docs-platform-confidence: medium
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-10-04
tags:
- Company
- Affiliate Marketing
- Content Monetization
- Commerce
- Publishers
- Advertising
- Retail
- Reporting
- Product
- E-Commerce
tags_raw:
- Company
- Affiliate Marketing
- Content Monetization
- Commerce
- Publishers
- Advertising
- Retail
- Reporting
- Products
- eCommerce
apis:
- aid: skimbit:skimbit-commissions-api
  name: SkimBit Commissions API
  description: The Commissions API from SkimBit — 1 operation(s) for commissions.
  humanURL: https://developers.skimlinks.com/reporting.html
  baseURL: https://reporting.skimapis.com
  tags:
  - Commissions
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/skimbit-commissions-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.skimlinks.com/merchant.html
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.skimlinks.com/reporting.html
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.skimlinks.com/product-key.html
- aid: skimbit:skimbit-domains-api
  name: SkimBit Domains API
  description: The Domains API from SkimBit — 1 operation(s) for domains.
  humanURL: https://developers.skimlinks.com/merchant.html
  baseURL: https://merchants.skimapis.com
  tags:
  - Domains
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/skimbit-domains-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.skimlinks.com/merchant.html
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.skimlinks.com/reporting.html
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.skimlinks.com/product-key.html
- aid: skimbit:skimbit-merchants-api
  name: SkimBit Merchants API
  description: The Merchants API from SkimBit — 1 operation(s) for merchants.
  humanURL: https://developers.skimlinks.com/merchant.html
  baseURL: https://merchants.skimapis.com
  tags:
  - Merchants
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/skimbit-merchants-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.skimlinks.com/merchant.html
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.skimlinks.com/reporting.html
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.skimlinks.com/product-key.html
- aid: skimbit:skimbit-offers-api
  name: SkimBit Offers API
  description: The Offers API from SkimBit — 1 operation(s) for offers.
  humanURL: https://developers.skimlinks.com/merchant.html
  baseURL: https://merchants.skimapis.com
  tags:
  - Offers
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/skimbit-offers-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.skimlinks.com/merchant.html
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.skimlinks.com/reporting.html
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.skimlinks.com/product-key.html
- aid: skimbit:skimbit-payments-api
  name: SkimBit Payments API
  description: The Payments API from SkimBit — 1 operation(s) for payments.
  humanURL: https://developers.skimlinks.com/reporting.html
  baseURL: https://reporting.skimapis.com
  tags:
  - Payments
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/skimbit-payments-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.skimlinks.com/merchant.html
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.skimlinks.com/reporting.html
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.skimlinks.com/product-key.html
- aid: skimbit:skimbit-products-api
  name: SkimBit Products API
  description: The Products API from SkimBit — 4 operation(s) for products.
  humanURL: https://developers.skimlinks.com/product-key.html
  baseURL: https://products.skimapis.com
  tags:
  - Product
  tags_raw:
  - Products
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/skimbit-products-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.skimlinks.com/merchant.html
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.skimlinks.com/reporting.html
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.skimlinks.com/product-key.html
- aid: skimbit:skimbit-reports-api
  name: SkimBit Reports API
  description: The Reports API from SkimBit — 8 operation(s) for reports.
  humanURL: https://developers.skimlinks.com/reporting.html
  baseURL: https://reporting.skimapis.com
  tags:
  - Reports
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/skimbit-reports-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.skimlinks.com/merchant.html
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.skimlinks.com/reporting.html
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.skimlinks.com/product-key.html
- aid: skimbit:skimbit-verticals-api
  name: SkimBit Verticals API
  description: The Verticals API from SkimBit — 2 operation(s) for verticals.
  humanURL: https://developers.skimlinks.com/merchant.html
  baseURL: https://merchants.skimapis.com
  tags:
  - Verticals
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/skimbit-verticals-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.skimlinks.com/merchant.html
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.skimlinks.com/reporting.html
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.skimlinks.com/product-key.html
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-13'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 4
  pass: local-v1
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/skimbit-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://skimlinks.com
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://developers.skimlinks.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://developers.skimlinks.com
- type: APIReference
  url: https://developers.skimlinks.com/merchant.html
- type: SignUp
  url: https://signup.skimlinks.com/
- type: Login
  url: https://hub.skimlinks.com/login
- type: Support
  url: https://support.skimlinks.com/hc/en-us
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.skimlinks.com/insights/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.skimlinks.com/privacy-policy/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.skimlinks.com/terms-of-service/
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/skimbit-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/skimbit-conventions.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/skimbit-rate-limits.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/skimbit-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/skimbit-lifecycle.yml
- type: Deprecation
  url: lifecycle/skimbit-lifecycle.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/skimbit-data-model.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/skimbit-conformance.yml
- type: Components
  url: components/skimbit-components.yml
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/skimbit-mcp.yml
  note: 'Renamed from MCPServer 2026-09-03 (roadmap#247): the manifest self-describes as status: candidate — a tool list derived
    from the published API contracts, not an existing server. The scorer already read the manifest and reported mcp_server
    correctly; the MCPServer type was crediting the artifact-type surfaces with a server that does not exist.'
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/skimbit-llms.txt
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/skimbit-agentic-access.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/skimbit-merchant-overlay.yaml
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/skimbit-reporting-overlay.yaml
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/skimbit-product-key-overlay.yaml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/skimbit-packages.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/skimbit-plans-pricing.yml
- type: AsyncAPI
  url: asyncapi/skimbit-data-pipe-asyncapi.yml
- type: ToolCrosswalk
  url: mcp/skimbit-tool-crosswalk.yml
- type: Documentation
  url: https://developers.skimlinks.com/data-pipe.html

SkimBit API — frequently asked questions

Does SkimBit have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 8 APIs from SkimBit, including SkimBit Commissions API, SkimBit Domains API and SkimBit Merchants API, and 5 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the SkimBit API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 8 OpenAPI specifications for SkimBit, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the SkimBit API?

SkimBit uses bearer-token authentication (apiKey/oauth2-like-client-credentials · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Skimbit Authentication.

Is the SkimBit API ready for AI agents?

SkimBit has a Kin Score of 46.4 out of 100 (developing) and an Agent Readiness score of 25.7 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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