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Reolink

Reolink is a provider of security cameras and smart home surveillance technology. Their cameras offer an HTTP API that enables direct device control and configuration through JSON-based POST requests. The API supports comprehensive camera management including PTZ control, video encoding settings, recording search and playback, motion and AI-powered object detection, network configuration, LED control, and user authentication. The API is accessible on the local network via the device IP address.

agent ready

Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Reolink the way a machine reads it — 32 machine-readable artifacts across 11 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 — Reolink scores 51.5/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (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 Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 51.5/100 · developing
Contract Quality 17.7 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 3.5 / 20
Commercial Clarity 7.9 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.8 / 13
Governance 8.8 / 12
Discoverability 8.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 48/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Reolink

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Reolink. 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 11

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.

Reolink AI API

AI-powered object detection, auto-tracking, and autofocus

Reolink Alarm API

Motion detection, audio alarms, and detection zone configuration

Reolink Authentication API

Login, logout, and session token management

Reolink Encoding API

Video stream encoding parameters and compression settings

Reolink LED API

Infrared, white light, and power indicator LED control

Reolink Network API

Network configuration, WiFi, DDNS, NTP, email, FTP, and push notifications

Reolink PTZ API

Pan-tilt-zoom control, presets, patrols, and calibration

Reolink Recording API

Recording schedules, search, and playback

Reolink Security API

User management and access control

Reolink System API

Device information, maintenance, time settings, firmware, and storage

Reolink Video API

Image quality, OSD, ISP settings, privacy masks, and snapshot capture

Scroll within the panel for all 11 ·

Open Collections 1

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).

Reolink Camera HTTP API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Reolink Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Reolink Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Reolink Context

0 classes · 10 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

Reolink API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

Reolink API Rules

8 rules · 3 errors · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 8

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Reolink Alarm Settings

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Reolink Command Request

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Reolink Command Response

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Reolink Device Info

18 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Reolink Login

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Reolink Network Settings

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Reolink PTZ Control

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Reolink Recording Search

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Scroll within the panel for all 8 ·

JSON Structure 1

JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Reolink Device Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 2

Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Reolink Login Example

4 fields

EXAMPLE

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.

Reolink Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Reolink Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

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.

Reolink Agentic Access

65 operations · 65 acting · 4 human-in-the-loop

65 operations · 65 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Reolink — 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.

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Company 3

The organization behind the API

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