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 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network: Order API, Orderitem API, and Product API. Tagged areas include Company, Marketplace, Hardware, Electronics, and Maker.

The Tindie catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

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

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29.6/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 25/100 agent aware Heartbeat 50/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

1 published contract 2 Agent Skills

Company Marketplace Hardware Electronics Maker E-Commerce Open Source Hardware Order

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 29.6/100 · thin

Contract Quality 10.2 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 4.1 / 17

Access Clarity 1.8 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.3 / 11

Contract Governance 1.9 / 10

Discoverability 6.2 / 9

Regulatory Posture 3.1 / 15

Agent readiness — 25/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 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 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 4 / 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 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics does not apply to this provider. The published contracts declare no write operations, and a read-only API cannot create-or-update. The facet is excluded from this provider's denominator entirely — not scored zero. A reference or data API is not deficient for being unable to upsert.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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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
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Rate-Limit Signaling +7 pts — OpenAPI responses document X-RateLimit-* / RateLimit headers (verified), else a rate_limits artifact or RateLimits link (documented)
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document

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 10.5 — up to +17.9 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 24.4 — up to +15.1 composite points
Contract Quality scores 47.8 — up to +13.1 composite points

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Standards implemented 1

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)

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).

Open Collections 4

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

Tindie order API

OPEN COLLECTION

Tindie order orderitem API

OPEN COLLECTION

Tindie order product API

OPEN COLLECTION

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

Agent Skills 2

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

Browse Tindie products

AGENT SKILL

Fetch Tindie seller orders

AGENT SKILL

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Tindie API Rules

58 rules · 54 errors 1 warnings 3 info

SPECTRAL

OpenAPI Overlays 1

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.

Tindie Openapi Overlay

2 actions · update · tindie-openapi.yml

DERIVED

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

X-MCPServerCandidate

X-MCPServerCandidate

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

AgentSkill

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

ErrorCatalog

DataModel

Lifecycle

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)

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.
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
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  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: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
tags:
- Company
- Marketplace
- Hardware
- Electronics
- Maker
- E-Commerce
- Open Source Hardware
- Order
tags_raw:
- 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
  tags_raw:
  - 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
  tags_raw:
  - 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: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/tindie-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/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

Tindie API — frequently asked questions

Does Tindie have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 3 APIs from Tindie, including Tindie Order API, Tindie Orderitem API and Tindie Product API.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Tindie API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 3 OpenAPI specifications for Tindie, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Tindie API?

Tindie uses bearer-token authentication (apiKey · 3 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Tindie Authentication.

Is the Tindie API ready for AI agents?

Tindie has a Kin Score of 29.6 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 24.8 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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