# Tindie

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/tindie/  
**Website:** https://www.tindie.com  
**APIs profiled:** 3

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.

## Kin Score — 32.2 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+1.1 from 31.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 92.6 |
| Contract Quality | 54.5 |
| Governance | 16.7 |
| Contract Governance | 16.7 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 24.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 10.5 |
| Access Clarity | 10.5 |

## Agent readiness — 33.9 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | na |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | na |
| Error Semantics | documented |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | derived |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | na |

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (3)

- **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)

- **Tindie MCP Server**

## Security (2)

- **Tindie Authentication** — apiKey · 3 schemes
- **Tindie Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Tags

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

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/tindie/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.