BambooHR
BambooHR is a cloud-based human resources software platform for small and medium-sized businesses, providing core HR, applicant tracking, onboarding, time tracking, payroll, performance management, and employee self-service. The BambooHR REST API allows developers to read and update employee data, generate reports, manage time-off, and integrate with the HRIS using either OAuth 2.0 or per-customer API keys over HTTPS Basic Auth.
Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.
API Evangelist profiles BambooHR the way a machine reads it — 17 machine-readable artifacts across 8 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — BambooHR scores 36.4/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 47/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile BambooHR
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for BambooHR. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 8
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
BambooHR REST API
RESTful HTTPS API for accessing and manipulating employee data, directories, time-off, reports, and other BambooHR HRIS resources. Supports OAuth 2.0 for multi-customer apps and...
BambooHR Webhooks
Event-driven webhook surface for BambooHR. Webhooks fire when monitored fields change on Employee records (and when employee records are created or deleted). Subscribers registe...
BambooHR Directory API
Employee directory
BambooHR Employees API
Employee records
BambooHR Files API
Employee files
BambooHR Meta API
Field metadata
BambooHR Reports API
Custom and standard reports
BambooHR Time Off API
Time-off requests and balances
Scroll within the panel for all 8 ·
Open Collections 2
Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
BambooHR Webhooks
OPEN COLLECTIONBambooHR REST API
OPEN COLLECTIONGraphQL 1
Where a provider ships GraphQL, the schema is the contract. We profile it alongside the REST surface so the whole interface is legible in one place.
GraphQL schemas published by this provider.
BambooHR GraphQL Schema
BambooHR is a cloud-based human resources software platform for small and medium-sized businesses. This conceptual GraphQL schema models the BambooHR REST API surface, covering ...
GRAPHQLSecurity Posture 4
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Scopes 1
OAuth scopes are the vocabulary of least-privilege access. Profiling them shows exactly what an integration — or an agent acting on a user's behalf — is allowed to do.
OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Every other property we hold for BambooHR — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 2
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 2
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 5
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 1
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 1
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API
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