Ximalaya

Ximalaya (喜马拉雅) is China's largest online audio and podcast platform, distributing audiobooks, radio dramas, children's content, courses, news and live broadcast radio. Its developer surface is the Ximalaya Open Platform (open.ximalaya.com), a partner-oriented program that lets mobile apps, smart speakers, in-car head units, H5 sub-sites and WeChat mini-programs embed Ximalaya audio. The platform publishes a documented HTTP+JSON API across two hosts — api.ximalaya.com for content, search, recommendation, OAuth2 accounts, user data and analytics callbacks, and mpay.ximalaya.com for paid-content distribution, pricing and orders — secured by an app_key plus an HMAC-SHA1/MD5 request signature, with OAuth 2.0 access tokens for user-private data.

Ximalaya publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Audio, Podcasts, Audiobooks, and Media.

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

Ximalaya’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, signup flow, sandbox, developer console, authentication, and 20 more developer resources.

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44.9/100 developing Agent 25/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-04 · rubric v0.18.3

2 APIs

Company Audio Podcasts Audiobooks Media Content Distribution Streaming China Entertainment

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scored 2026-09-04 · rubric v0.18.3

Composite quality — 44.9/100 · developing

Contract Quality 10.4 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 12.9 / 20

Access Clarity 6.8 / 20

Operational Transparency 5.8 / 13

Contract Governance 2.2 / 12

Discoverability 6.9 / 10

Agent readiness — 25/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 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 6 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

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APIs 2

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

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Ximalaya Scopes

OAuth 2.0 · no documented scopes

0 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Get Started 5

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

SignUp

Sandbox

Console

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

X-MCPServerCandidate

X-MCPServerCandidate

Design & Contract 7

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

ErrorCatalog

Conventions

Lifecycle

Conformance

DataModel

Webhooks

Components

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Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Packages

Packages

SDKs

SDKs

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

OAuthScopes

OAuthScopes

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Plans

Plans

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: ximalaya
name: Ximalaya
description: Ximalaya (喜马拉雅) is China's largest online audio and podcast platform, distributing audiobooks, radio dramas,
  children's content, courses, news and live broadcast radio. Its developer surface is the Ximalaya Open Platform (open.ximalaya.com),
  a partner-oriented program that lets mobile apps, smart speakers, in-car head units, H5 sub-sites and WeChat mini-programs
  embed Ximalaya audio. The platform publishes a documented HTTP+JSON API across two hosts — api.ximalaya.com for content,
  search, recommendation, OAuth2 accounts, user data and analytics callbacks, and mpay.ximalaya.com for paid-content distribution,
  pricing and orders — secured by an app_key plus an HMAC-SHA1/MD5 request signature, with OAuth 2.0 access tokens for user-private
  data.
image: https://s1.xmcdn.com/yx/open-website/last/build/favicon.ico
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ximalaya/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
created: '2026-09-04'
modified: '2026-09-04'
specificationVersion: '0.20'
tags:
- Company
- Audio
- Podcasts
- Audiobooks
- Media
- Content Distribution
- Streaming
- China
- Entertainment
apis:
- aid: ximalaya-open-platform-api
  name: Ximalaya Open Platform API
  description: 'The core Ximalaya Open Platform HTTP+JSON API on api.ximalaya.com: free on-demand content (albums, tracks,
    categories, tags), paid on-demand content metadata, content search with hot/suggest words, recommendation, content-operations
    surfaces (columns, banners, ranks, dimensions), broadcast radio, OAuth 2.0 account authorization, user profile / subscription
    / cloud play-history, and the mandatory play, browse and impression analytics callbacks. Requests carry common parameters
    (app_key, client_os_type, nonce, timestamp, device_id, device_id_type, server_api_version) plus a computed sig signature.'
  humanURL: https://open.ximalaya.com/doc/api
  image: https://s1.xmcdn.com/yx/open-website/last/build/favicon.ico
  baseURL: https://api.ximalaya.com
  tags:
  - Audio
  - Content
  - Search
  - OAuth2
  - Radio
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://open.ximalaya.com/doc/api
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://open.ximalaya.com/doc/api
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/ximalaya-authentication.yml
  - type: OAuthScopes
    url: scopes/ximalaya-scopes.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/ximalaya-error-codes.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/ximalaya-data-model.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/ximalaya-rate-limits.yml
  - type: Webhooks
    url: asyncapi/ximalaya-callbacks-webhooks.yml
- aid: ximalaya-open-pay-distribution-api
  name: Ximalaya Paid Content & Distribution API
  description: 'The paid-content and distribution HTTP+JSON API on mpay.ximalaya.com: product/price lookup (get_price_info,
    get_gradient_activity_price_info), album and track distribution (distribute, v2/distribute, get_distributed_product_infos),
    order preparation and order detail (prepare_order, get_order_detail), purchase-state checks (album_bought_status, track_bought_status,
    get_bought), and authorized playback URL issuance for paid audio and video (get_play_info, batch_get_play_info, get_video_play_info).
    Order results are delivered back to the partner over a signed order_status_notify callback.'
  humanURL: https://open.ximalaya.com/doc/detailApi?categoryId=15&articleId=31
  image: https://s1.xmcdn.com/yx/open-website/last/build/favicon.ico
  baseURL: https://mpay.ximalaya.com
  tags:
  - Payments
  - Distribution
  - Orders
  - Commerce
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://open.ximalaya.com/doc/detailApi?categoryId=15&articleId=31
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://open.ximalaya.com/doc/detailApi?categoryId=15&articleId=87
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/ximalaya-authentication.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/ximalaya-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.ximalaya.com/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://open.ximalaya.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://open.ximalaya.com/doc/api
- type: APIReference
  url: https://open.ximalaya.com/doc/api
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://open.ximalaya.com/doc/quickStart
- type: SignUp
  url: https://open.ximalaya.com/developer/app
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://open.ximalaya.com/doc/detailQuickStart?categoryId=18&articleId=35
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://open.ximalaya.com/doc/detailQuickStart?categoryId=18&articleId=78
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/XimalayaCloud
- type: Sandbox
  url: sandbox/ximalaya-sandbox.yml
- type: Console
  url: https://open.ximalaya.com/doc/tool
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/ximalaya-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/ximalaya-scopes.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/ximalaya-error-codes.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/ximalaya-rate-limits.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/ximalaya-plans-pricing.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/ximalaya-conventions.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/ximalaya-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/ximalaya-conformance.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/ximalaya-data-model.yml
- type: Webhooks
  url: asyncapi/ximalaya-callbacks-webhooks.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/ximalaya-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/ximalaya-packages.yml
- type: Components
  url: components/ximalaya-components.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/ximalaya-llms.txt
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/ximalaya-mcp.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-09-04'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 17
  pass: local-v3

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