Developers

A public Volk API is coming soon.

Volk runs on an API today — it's what powers our web and mobile apps — but it isn't open to third-party developers yet. We want the public version to be stable, secure and respectful of our users' privacy before anyone builds on it, so we're taking the time to do it properly.

What's planned

• A versioned REST API (/api/v1) with JSON responses, consistent pagination and documented error codes, so your integration doesn't break when our apps change.
• OAuth 2.0 sign-in with scopes. Apps will ask for exactly the access they need (for example, read your public profile, or publish posts) and users approve it on a consent screen. Apps will never see a user's password.
• Developer apps and keys you can create, rotate and revoke from your account settings.
• Clear rate limits with rate-limit headers on every response.
• Webhooks for events such as new followers, mentions and messages to your app.
• Full reference documentation with an OpenAPI specification and examples.

Until then

• Please don't scrape Volk or automate a user account; it's against our Terms of Use and accounts that do so may be disabled.
• Public profiles and posts include standard Open Graph and schema.org metadata, so links to Volk unfurl properly in other apps and are understood by search engines.

Get early access

Building something and want to be first in line, or have a use case we should design for? Email [email protected] with a short description of your project.