ReadMe API
ReadMe provides a REST API for programmatically managing developer hubs including API reference pages, guides, changelogs, custom pages, and developer usage metrics.
Score Breakdown
⚙ Agent Friendliness
🔒 Security
HTTP Basic Auth with an API key as the username is an older pattern that works but lacks scope control. Keys cannot be rotated or scoped per operation type.
⚡ Reliability
Best When
Best when you need a developer hub that combines API reference, guides, and per-user metrics in one platform with automation hooks for keeping content current.
Avoid When
Avoid when you need fully custom doc site layouts or when the ReadMe branding on the free tier is unacceptable for your use case.
Use Cases
- • Automatically publish a new changelog entry whenever a new API version is deployed to production
- • Sync an updated OpenAPI spec to ReadMe from a CI/CD pipeline on every release branch merge
- • Query developer API usage metrics to identify which endpoints are most called and by whom
- • Programmatically create or update guide pages in response to content management system events
- • Retrieve and aggregate per-user API call logs to generate usage reports for enterprise customers
Not For
- • Building interactive application UIs or serving application data to end users
- • Managing non-developer-facing content like marketing copy or internal wikis
- • Real-time event streaming or WebSocket-based communication patterns
Interface
Authentication
API key passed via HTTP Basic Auth with the key as the username and an empty password. Keys are project-scoped and available from the ReadMe dashboard.
Pricing
Free tier is suitable for small open-source projects; branding removal requires a paid plan.
Agent Metadata
Known Gotchas
- ⚠ API spec uploads process asynchronously; the upload endpoint returns 200 before content is live, requiring polling for readiness
- ⚠ Changelog entries require a specific slug format; slug collisions silently overwrite existing entries without returning a conflict error
- ⚠ The per-user metrics API requires a JWT signed with your project secret to associate API calls with specific developer identities
- ⚠ Category and guide hierarchies must be established before pages can be created; attempting to create an orphaned page returns a confusing 404
- ⚠ Version identifiers in URLs must exactly match the version string configured in the project, including v-prefix conventions
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Scores are editorial opinions as of 2026-03-07.