aid: affectiva name: Affectiva description: Affectiva is an Emotion AI company founded out of the MIT Media Lab and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. Its AFFDEX science analyzes spontaneous facial expressions and speech to measure emotion, attention and cognitive state, trained on what the company describes as the world's largest emotion data set — 17.4M face videos and 8B facial frames gathered across 90 countries over 18 years. The technology is sold into media analytics (ad testing, entertainment content testing, qualitative research), in-cabin automotive sensing for driver and occupant monitoring, and academic behavioral research. Affectiva was acquired by Smart Eye AB in 2021 and its commercial product line has since been folded into the iMotions brand. Its developer surface is the Affectiva Facial Coding API — a cloud "EaaS" (Emotion as a Service) platform documented by thirteen Swagger 2.0 contracts at index.affectiva.com/swagger, plus the browser-side affdex.js Emotion SDK distributed from the company CDN and an Automotive SDK available on request. url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/affectiva/refs/heads/main/apis.yml image: https://www.affectiva.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/SoMe-Graphics-Zeus-Announcement.png x-type: company x-source: harvest:secondary-market specificationVersion: '0.20' created: '2026-09-12' modified: '2026-09-12' tags: - Company - Emotion AI - Artificial Intelligence - Machine-Learning - Computer-Vision - Facial Coding - Facial Expression Analysis - Media Analytics - Market Research - Automotive - Driver Monitoring - Video Analysis - Affective Computing tags_raw: - Company - Emotion AI - Artificial Intelligence - Machine Learning - Computer Vision - Facial Coding - Facial Expression Analysis - Media Analytics - Market Research - Automotive - Driver Monitoring - Video Analysis - Affective Computing apis: - aid: affectiva:affectiva-facial-coding-api name: Affectiva Facial Coding API description: The Affectiva Facial Coding API — branded internally as "EaaS" (Emotion as a Service) — is the cloud service behind Affectiva's facial-coding products. A consumer uploads video and receives frame-by-frame expression and Action Unit metrics as JSON or CSV. The published contract surface is thirteen Swagger 2.0 documents served from the Swagger UI at index.affectiva.com/swagger covering data collection projects, jobs, entries and their annotations, representations and representation storages, event configs and event instances, frame sampling jobs, video frames, video segments, and the labeling jobs / tasks / annotations trio. The live API answers HTTP Basic with WWW-Authenticate realm "Affectiva Facial Coding API"; all 51 operations require an account and there is no public self-service sign-up. humanURL: https://index.affectiva.com/swagger/index.html baseURL: https://index.affectiva.com tags: - Emotion AI - Facial Coding - Video Analysis - Machine-Learning tags_raw: - Emotion AI - Facial Coding - Video Analysis - Machine Learning properties: - type: OpenAPI url: openapi/affectiva-eaas-data_collection_projects.json - type: OpenAPI url: openapi/affectiva-eaas-jobs.json - type: OpenAPI url: openapi/affectiva-eaas-entries.json - type: OpenAPI url: openapi/affectiva-eaas-representations.json - type: OpenAPI url: openapi/affectiva-eaas-representation_storages.json - type: OpenAPI url: openapi/affectiva-eaas-event_configs.json - type: OpenAPI url: openapi/affectiva-eaas-event_instances.json - type: OpenAPI url: openapi/affectiva-eaas-frame_sampling_jobs.json - type: OpenAPI url: openapi/affectiva-eaas-video_frames.json - type: OpenAPI url: openapi/affectiva-eaas-video_segments.json - type: OpenAPI url: openapi/affectiva-eaas-labeling_jobs.json - type: OpenAPI url: openapi/affectiva-eaas-labeling_tasks.json - type: OpenAPI url: openapi/affectiva-eaas-labeling_job_annotations.json - type: APIReference url: https://index.affectiva.com/swagger/index.html - type: Login url: https://index.affectiva.com/users/sign_in maintainers: - FN: Kin Lane email: kin@apievangelist.com - FN: APIs.json email: info@apis.io common: - type: DomainSecurity url: security/affectiva-domain-security.yml - type: Authentication url: authentication/affectiva-authentication.yml - type: Website url: https://www.affectiva.com/ - type: APIReference url: https://index.affectiva.com/swagger/index.html - type: Documentation url: https://imotions.com/support/document-library/affectiva-for-facial-expression-analysis/ - type: Login url: https://index.affectiva.com/users/sign_in - type: Support url: https://www.affectiva.com/contact-us/ - type: Blog url: https://blog.affectiva.com/ - type: GitHubOrganization url: https://github.com/affectiva - type: TermsOfService url: https://www.affectiva.com/terms-of-service/ - type: PrivacyPolicy url: https://www.affectiva.com/privacy-policy/ - type: Packages url: packages/affectiva-packages.yml - type: SDKs url: packages/affectiva-packages.yml - type: LLMsTxt url: llms/affectiva-llms.txt - type: X-MCPServerCandidate url: mcp/affectiva-mcp.yml - type: Conformance url: conformance/affectiva-conformance.yml - type: ErrorCatalog url: errors/affectiva-problem-types.yml - type: Lifecycle url: lifecycle/affectiva-lifecycle.yml - type: Conventions url: conventions/affectiva-conventions.yml - type: DataModel url: data-model/affectiva-data-model.yml - type: Plans url: plans/affectiva-plans-pricing.yml - type: RateLimits url: rate-limits/affectiva-rate-limits.yml - type: AgentSkill url: skills/_index.yml - type: Overlay url: overlays/affectiva-eaas-data_collection_projects-overlay.yaml - type: Overlay url: overlays/affectiva-eaas-entries-overlay.yaml - type: Overlay url: overlays/affectiva-eaas-event_configs-overlay.yaml - type: Overlay url: overlays/affectiva-eaas-event_instances-overlay.yaml - type: Overlay url: overlays/affectiva-eaas-frame_sampling_jobs-overlay.yaml - type: Overlay url: overlays/affectiva-eaas-jobs-overlay.yaml - type: Overlay url: overlays/affectiva-eaas-labeling_job_annotations-overlay.yaml - type: Overlay url: overlays/affectiva-eaas-labeling_jobs-overlay.yaml - type: Overlay url: overlays/affectiva-eaas-labeling_tasks-overlay.yaml - type: Overlay url: overlays/affectiva-eaas-representation_storages-overlay.yaml - type: Overlay url: overlays/affectiva-eaas-representations-overlay.yaml - type: Overlay url: overlays/affectiva-eaas-video_frames-overlay.yaml - type: Overlay url: overlays/affectiva-eaas-video_segments-overlay.yaml x-enrichment: date: '2026-09-12' status: enriched artifacts_added: 36 pass: local-v3 x-spec-provenance: discovered: https://index.affectiva.com/swagger/index.html fetched: '2026-09-12' ownership_check: 'The thirteen Swagger 2.0 documents are served from index.affectiva.com — a host inside Affectiva''s own registrable domain — and the live API at that host answers every request with WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="Affectiva Facial Coding API", naming the provider in the contract''s own runtime behaviour. No servers[]/host, info.contact or terms field in any document points at another company. The console sign-in page is branded "iMotions Developer Platform" because Affectiva''s product line was folded into its Smart Eye sibling iMotions after the 2021 acquisition — affectiva.com''s own product, solutions and contact pages 301 to imotions.com — so the sibling branding is the documented parent-brand case, not a Leadpages-shaped mis-attribution.' documents: 13 operations: 51 version: swagger 2.0