Tindie

Tindie is an online marketplace for indie electronics and maker hardware — DIY kits, robotics, 3D-printing gear, IoT boards, and open-source hardware sold directly by independent creators worldwide. Tindie publishes a small public REST API built on Django Tastypie that exposes product listings and, for authenticated sellers, their orders and order line items, using API-key authentication (ApiKey) and standard Tastypie limit/offset pagination with a self-describing per-resource schema surface.

Tindie publishes 3 APIs on the APIs.io network: order API, orderitem API, and product API. Tagged areas include Company, Marketplace, Hardware, Electronics, and Maker.

Tindie’s developer surface includes API reference, support, engineering blog, authentication, and 14 more developer resources.

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35.9/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 55/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.5
AccessSelf serve
3 APIs 1 MCP Servers
CompanyMarketplaceHardwareElectronicsMakereCommerceOpen Source HardwareOrders

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 35.9/100 · thin
Contract Quality 15.3 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 7.8 / 20
Commercial Clarity 2.1 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 55/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 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 0 / 6
Agent Skills 5 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
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APIs 3

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

Tindie order API

A seller's orders (authenticated).

Tindie orderitem API

Line items within a seller's orders (authenticated).

Tindie product API

Store product listings (public read).

MCP Servers 1

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

tindie-mcp.yml

MCP SERVER

Security Posture 2

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

Tindie Authentication

apiKey · 3 schemes

SECURITY

Tindie Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

APIReference
APIReference

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown
WellKnown
 MCPServer
MCPServer
 LLMsTxt
LLMsTxt
 AgentSkill
AgentSkill

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions
Conventions
 ErrorCatalog
ErrorCatalog
 DataModel
DataModel
 Lifecycle
Lifecycle
 Conformance
Conformance

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization
GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity
 Authentication
Authentication

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support
Support

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService
TermsOfService

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 Blog
Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Overlay
Overlay

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: tindie
name: Tindie
description: Tindie is an online marketplace for indie electronics and maker hardware — DIY kits, robotics, 3D-printing gear,
  IoT boards, and open-source hardware sold directly by independent creators worldwide. Tindie publishes a small public REST
  API built on Django Tastypie that exposes product listings and, for authenticated sellers, their orders and order line items,
  using API-key authentication (ApiKey) and standard Tastypie limit/offset pagination with a self-describing per-resource
  schema surface.
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://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2267159
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/tindie/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- a16z
- slow-ventures
- version-one-ventures
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
tags:
- Company
- Marketplace
- Hardware
- Electronics
- Maker
- eCommerce
- Open Source Hardware
- Orders
apis:
- aid: tindie:tindie-order-api
  name: Tindie order API
  description: A seller's orders (authenticated).
  humanURL: https://www.tindie.com/api/v1/
  baseURL: https://www.tindie.com/api/v1
  tags:
  - order
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/tindie-order-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/tindie-authentication.yml
- aid: tindie:tindie-orderitem-api
  name: Tindie orderitem API
  description: Line items within a seller's orders (authenticated).
  humanURL: https://www.tindie.com/api/v1/
  baseURL: https://www.tindie.com/api/v1
  tags:
  - orderitem
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/tindie-orderitem-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/tindie-authentication.yml
- aid: tindie:tindie-product-api
  name: Tindie product API
  description: Store product listings (public read).
  humanURL: https://www.tindie.com/api/v1/
  baseURL: https://www.tindie.com/api/v1
  tags:
  - product
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/tindie-product-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/tindie-authentication.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/tindie-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.tindie.com
- type: APIReference
  url: https://www.tindie.com/api/v1/
- type: Support
  url: https://www.tindie.com/help/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.tindie.com/blog/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.tindie.com/about/terms/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/tindie
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/tindie-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/tindie-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/tindie-problem-types.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/tindie-data-model.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/tindie-lifecycle.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/tindie-well-known.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/tindie-mcp.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/tindie-llms.txt
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/tindie-conformance.yml
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/tindie-openapi-overlay.yaml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-21'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 15
  pass: local-v1