Sonos

Sonos is a consumer audio company whose wireless home-sound systems are controlled programmatically through the Sonos Control API — a cloud-based REST API that lets third-party integrations discover a household's players and groups and drive playback, volume, grouping, favorites, playlists, home theater options, audio clips, and cloud-queue sessions. The API authenticates with OAuth 2.0 (authorization code grant) using the single playback-control-all scope, is organized into per-resource namespaces (households, groups, groupVolume, playback, playbackMetadata, playbackSession, playerVolume, favorites, playlists, audioClip, homeTheater), and delivers real-time state through an event-subscription (webhook callback) model.

Sonos publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Consumer, Audio, Music, and Smart Home.

The Sonos catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification.

Sonos’ developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, signup flow, support, authentication, and 15 more developer resources.

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34.3/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 43/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

AccessSelf serve

1 APIs 1 MCP Servers

CompanyConsumerAudioMusicSmart HomeIoTStreamingSpeakersHome AutomationVoice

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

Composite quality — 34.3/100 · thin

Contract Quality 5.7 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 13.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 2.6 / 20

Operational Transparency 3.8 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 9.3 / 10

Agent readiness — 43/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 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 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 6 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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APIs 1

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

Sonos Control API

Cloud-based REST API for controlling Sonos players and groups: playback, volume, grouping, favorites, playlists, home theater, audio clips, and cloud-queue playback sessions, wi...

MCP Servers 1

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

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Sonos Scopes

1 scope · authorizationCode

1 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

SignUp

SignUp

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown

WellKnown

MCPServer

MCPServer

AgentSkill

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 6

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Lifecycle

Conventions

Webhooks

Conformance

ErrorCatalog

DataModel

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

OAuthScopes

OAuthScopes

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

StatusPage

StatusPage

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: sonos
name: Sonos
description: Sonos is a consumer audio company whose wireless home-sound systems are controlled programmatically through the
  Sonos Control API — a cloud-based REST API that lets third-party integrations discover a household's players and groups
  and drive playback, volume, grouping, favorites, playlists, home theater options, audio clips, and cloud-queue sessions.
  The API authenticates with OAuth 2.0 (authorization code grant) using the single playback-control-all scope, is organized
  into per-resource namespaces (households, groups, groupVolume, playback, playbackMetadata, playbackSession, playerVolume,
  favorites, playlists, audioClip, homeTheater), and delivers real-time state through an event-subscription (webhook callback)
  model.
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specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
tags:
- Company
- Consumer
- Audio
- Music
- Smart Home
- IoT
- Streaming
- Speakers
- Home Automation
- Voice
image: https://www.sonos.com/apple-touch-icon.png
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- name: Sonos Control API
  description: 'Cloud-based REST API for controlling Sonos players and groups: playback, volume, grouping, favorites, playlists,
    home theater, audio clips, and cloud-queue playback sessions, with OAuth 2.0 auth and event subscriptions.'
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  baseURL: https://api.ws.sonos.com/control/api/v1
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  - Music
  - Playback
  - Smart Home
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  - type: Documentation
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  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/sonos-authentication.yml
  - type: OAuthScopes
    url: scopes/sonos-scopes.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/sonos-conventions.yml
  - type: Webhooks
    url: asyncapi/sonos-events-webhooks.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/sonos-problem-types.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/sonos-data-model.yml
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/sonos-mcp.yml
  - type: AgentSkill
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- type: Website
  url: https://www.sonos.com/
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  url: https://developer.sonos.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.sonos.com/docs
- type: APIReference
  url: https://docs.sonos.com/reference
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.sonos.com/docs/authorize
- type: SignUp
  url: https://developer.sonos.com/
- type: Support
  url: https://support.sonos.com/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/sonos
- type: StatusPage
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- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/sonos-lifecycle.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/sonos-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/sonos-scopes.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/sonos-conventions.yml
- type: Webhooks
  url: asyncapi/sonos-events-webhooks.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/sonos-well-known.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/sonos-conformance.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/sonos-problem-types.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/sonos-data-model.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/sonos-mcp.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/sonos-domain-security.yml
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