Blinkist
Blinkist is a Berlin-founded subscription learning app that condenses the key ideas of thousands of nonfiction books and podcasts into roughly 15-minute text and audio summaries called "Blinks." Launched in 2012, it is used by millions of readers to learn on the go across categories such as productivity, business, psychology, personal growth, and science, and it also offers Blinkist for Business for teams and organizations. The consumer product is delivered through the web and iOS/Android apps backed by a private mobile backend at api.blinkist.com; Blinkist does not publish a public developer API, SDKs, or a developer portal. Blinkist was added to the API Evangelist network as a portfolio-company lead (backed by Insight Partners) and enriched with the provider signals that could be verified from its public surface.
Index entry only — little beyond a description and a link, and nothing machine-readable enough for an agent to act on without a human reading the site first.
API Evangelist profiles Blinkist the way a machine reads it — 1 machine-readable artifact, 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 — Blinkist scores 6.8/100 (minimal), with a separate agent-readiness read of 0/100 (human only). 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 Blinkist
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Blinkist. 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.
Security Posture 1
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.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Blinkist — 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.
Access & Security 1
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Company 1
The organization behind the API
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