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 APIs 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.

SkimBit’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, signup flow, support, engineering blog, authentication, and 21 more developer resources.

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43.8/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 72/100 agent native Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
AccessSelf serve
8 APIs 1 MCP Servers
CompanyAffiliate MarketingContent MonetizationCommercePublishersAdvertisingRetailReportingProductseCommerce

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 43.8/100 · thin
Contract Quality 14.7 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 11.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 6.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 1.0 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 72/100 · agent native
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 12 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 5 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
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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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MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

skimbit-mcp.yml

MCP SERVER

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Skimbit Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

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 · 1 acting

19 operations · 1 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal
DeveloperPortal
 SignUp
SignUp
 Login
Login

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation
 APIReference
APIReference

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

MCPServer
MCPServer
 LLMsTxt
LLMsTxt
 AgenticAccess
AgenticAccess
 AgentSkill
AgentSkill

Design & Contract 6

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions
Conventions
 ErrorCatalog
ErrorCatalog
 Lifecycle
Lifecycle
 DataModel
DataModel
 Conformance
Conformance
 Components
Components

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 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy
PrivacyPolicy
 TermsOfService
TermsOfService

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)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
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
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  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: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
tags:
- 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/merchant.html
  baseURL: https://merchants.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/merchant.html
  baseURL: https://merchants.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/merchant.html
  baseURL: https://merchants.skimapis.com
  tags:
  - 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/merchant.html
  baseURL: https://merchants.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: '2026-07-21'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 23
  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: MCPServer
  url: mcp/skimbit-mcp.yml
- 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