API & agent guide

Explore creative tools and what their makers are shipping. Read the public site, retrieve a page as Markdown, or search the catalog through our API and MCP server.

Browsing Creators Toolbox is free. Products listed in the directory can be free, freemium, or paid; inclusion does not mean a product is free or runs inside Creators Toolbox.

Read public content without an account

Discovery index — links to topic indexes, documentation, and feeds.
Public page index (JSON) — canonical URLs, descriptions, matching Markdown URLs, and article dates where known.
XML sitemap — public pages eligible for indexing.
RSS — recent catalog additions.
Article archive — product announcements and editorial posts, with source links.

Catalog and article pages are prerendered with readable HTML. Eligible pages advertise a matching rel="alternate" type="text/markdown" link in their head. These are copies of the same public content, not a separate set of claims written for crawlers.

curl https://creatorstoolbox.com/llms.txt
curl https://creatorstoolbox.com/data/agent-index.json

Search and filter with the API

OpenAPI specification · Complete API reference · Public taxonomy and counts

Company and event queries require an API key. The current free allowance is 1,000 requests per UTC day. The reference explains key creation, pagination, filters, response fields, and errors. Creating a key requires an email address; only do that with the user's authorization.

curl 'https://creatorstoolbox.com/api/v1/companies?tag=AI&pricing=free' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY'

Public HTML, Markdown, discovery indexes, and RSS require no API key. Existing API authentication and quotas still apply to API requests.

Connect an MCP client

Endpoint: https://creatorstoolbox.com/api/mcp. Transport: Streamable HTTP. Tool calls use the same bearer key and quota as the REST API. A plain GET describes the server; it does not execute a tool.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "creators-toolbox": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://creatorstoolbox.com/api/mcp",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" }
    }
  }
}

search_companies: filter tools, apps, and other catalog entries.
get_company: retrieve a listing and its recent events.
list_events: find product releases, partnerships, funding announcements, and more.
list_funding: retrieve reported funding events and filtered totals.
catalog_facets: discover the taxonomy accepted by filters.

These tools read catalog data. They do not subscribe users, make purchases, edit listings, or change accounts. Read-only annotations are descriptive hints, not permission to act on a user's behalf.

Sources, dates, and accuracy

Canonical URLs identify the human-readable Creators Toolbox pages. Articles link to their original announcements where available; API events expose source_url when known. Keep the directory's summary distinct from what a publisher originally announced.

Pricing and availability can change. An omitted field means unknown, not free or unavailable. Article publication dates are not a new verification date for every claim. API funding amounts and investor names are best-effort readings of public announcements, not audited financial data.

The page index is regenerated with the site. Its content version changes when indexed metadata changes, not simply because another build ran. No private subscriber information, account content, or API keys are included.