Snapchat
Snap Inc. operates Snapchat, a visual messaging app and camera platform with developer tools including the Marketing API for programmatic advertising, Conversions API for server-side conversion tracking, Login Kit for OAuth-based user authentication, Creative Kit for content sharing to Snapchat, Camera Kit for embedding Snap AR technology into third-party apps, and Lens Studio for building augmented reality experiences.
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.
API Evangelist profiles Snapchat the way a machine reads it — 57 machine-readable artifacts across 16 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 — Snapchat scores 59.5/100 (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.
How we profile Snapchat
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Snapchat. 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 16
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.
Snapchat Ads API
The Snapchat Ads API (Marketing API) allows developers to programmatically create, manage, and optimize advertising campaigns on the Snapchat platform. It provides endpoints for...
Snapchat Creative Kit
Creative Kit allows developers to let users share content including Lenses, AR experiences, filters, GIFs, videos, links, and captions from a website or app directly to Snapchat...
Snapchat Camera Kit
Camera Kit enables developers to integrate Snap's AR camera technology directly into iOS, Android, and web applications, giving users access to Snap's lens library and AR experi...
Lens Studio
Lens Studio is Snap's desktop application for building augmented reality lenses for Snapchat and Spectacles. Provides an API for scripting lens behaviors, integrating dynamic da...
Snapchat Ad Accounts API
Ad Accounts are owned by an Organization and contain Ad Campaigns. They have one or more Funding Sources.
Snapchat Ad Squads API
Ad Squads organize ads within a campaign, defining targeting, budget, schedule, and bid strategy.
Snapchat Audience Segments API
Audience Segments allow advertisers to define and manage custom audiences for ad targeting, including Snap Audience Match, lookalike audiences, and pixel-based audiences.
Snapchat Campaigns API
Campaigns define a business objective and organize Ad Squads, allowing advertisers to view aggregate statistics.
Snapchat Conversion Events API
Endpoints for sending web, app, and offline conversion events to Snap for campaign measurement and optimization.
Snapchat Creatives API
Creatives define the visual and interactive content of ads, including images, videos, and call-to-action overlays.
Snapchat Funding Sources API
Funding Sources represent payment methods associated with an organization, including credit cards, PayPal, and lines of credit.
Snapchat Measurement API
Measurement endpoints provide campaign performance statistics and reporting data at various levels of the ad hierarchy.
Snapchat Media API
Media endpoints handle uploading and managing media assets such as images and videos used in creatives.
Snapchat OAuth API
OAuth 2.0 authorization and token management endpoints for authenticating users via their Snapchat account.
Snapchat Organizations API
Organizations represent brands, partners, or ad agencies. Organizations are created via Snap Business Manager.
Snapchat User Profile API
Endpoints for retrieving authenticated user profile information including display name and Bitmoji avatar.
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Open Collections 3
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).
Snapchat Ads API
OPEN COLLECTIONSnapchat Conversions API
OPEN COLLECTIONSnapchat Login Kit 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.
Snapchat GraphQL Schema
This is a conceptual GraphQL schema for the Snapchat platform, covering the Snap Kit developer APIs (Login Kit, Creative Kit, Camera Kit), the Snapchat Ads API (Marketing API), ...
GRAPHQLPricing 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.
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.
Snapchat Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 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.
Snapchat Finops
FINOPSSemantic 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.
Snapchat Context
JSON-LDSpectral 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.
Snapchat API Rules
SPECTRALSnapchat API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 23
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.
Snapchat Ad Campaign
JSON SCHEMAAd
JSON SCHEMAAdAccount
JSON SCHEMAAdSquad
JSON SCHEMAAppData
JSON SCHEMAAudienceSegment
JSON SCHEMACampaign
JSON SCHEMAContentItem
JSON SCHEMASnapchat Conversion Event
JSON SCHEMAConversionEvent
JSON SCHEMAConversionEventRequest
JSON SCHEMAConversionEventResponse
JSON SCHEMACreative
JSON SCHEMACustomData
JSON SCHEMAErrorResponse
JSON SCHEMAFundingSource
JSON SCHEMAMedia
JSON SCHEMAOAuthError
JSON SCHEMAOrganization
JSON SCHEMAStats
JSON SCHEMATokenResponse
JSON SCHEMAUserData
JSON SCHEMAUserProfile
JSON SCHEMAScroll within the panel for all 23 ·
JSON Structure 2
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.
Snapchat Campaign Structure
JSON STRUCTURESnapchat Structure
JSON STRUCTUREExamples 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.
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.
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 Snapchat — 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 3
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 1
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 3
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 1
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 3
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 3
The organization behind the API
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