DistroKid
DistroKid is a Brooklyn, New York based digital music distribution service founded in 2013 by Philip Kaplan that lets independent musicians and labels upload an unlimited number of songs and albums to Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, YouTube Music, TikTok, Instagram, Pandora, Tidal, Deezer, and dozens of other streaming and download stores for a flat annual subscription fee while keeping 100% of their royalties. By 2020 the platform was distributing roughly a third of all new music released worldwide and serving more than two million artists; Spotify and Insight Partners both hold equity stakes following a 2021 valuation around $1.3B. Around the core distribution product DistroKid has built out a suite of artist services including Teams for automated royalty splits, cover-song mechanical licensing, YouTube Content ID monetization, DistroVid music-video distribution, Upstream label matching, Mixea AI mastering, and DistroKid Direct for fan merchandising and pre-orders. The company has historically operated without a public developer API — integrations with stores, DSPs, rights organizations, and partners are handled through private B2B arrangements, and the only public web endpoints exposed under distrokid.com/api are unauthenticated pre-save widgets used to drive Spotify follow/save campaigns. DistroKid is actively hiring API engineers to scale partner and AI-facing integrations, suggesting a more formal developer surface may emerge, but as of 2026 there is no published OpenAPI specification, SDK, CLI, sandbox, or developer portal. Third-party reverse-engineered wrappers such as the unofficial Golang `distrogo` library exist but are not endorsed.
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API Evangelist profiles DistroKid the way a machine reads it — 2 machine-readable artifacts, 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 — DistroKid scores 13.5/100 (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 DistroKid
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for DistroKid. 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 2
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 DistroKid — 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
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Learn 1
Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance
Operate 2
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 1
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 7
The organization behind the API
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Other 8
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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