aid: boxee
name: Boxee
description: 'Boxee, Inc. was a New York and Tel Aviv based consumer media company founded in 2007 by
  Avner Ronen, Tom Sella, Idan Cohen, Gidon Coussin and Roy Vulcan. Its cross-platform media-center
  software began as a fork of the open-source XBMC project and bridged local media libraries with
  internet streaming sources. Boxee shipped a Python-based application API in April 2009 that let third
  parties build Boxee apps in Python with XML-defined interfaces, distributed through the Boxee app
  directory and documented at developer.boxee.tv. Hardware followed with the D-Link Boxee Box (2010)
  and Boxee TV with a cloud DVR service (2012). Backed by Union Square Ventures and Spark Capital,
  Boxee was acquired by Samsung Electronics in July 2013; the cloud DVR was shut down on 10 July 2013
  and Samsung wound down the Boxee team in 2015. The company is defunct and no API surface, developer
  portal, or documentation remains reachable.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/boxee/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/644333?v=4
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- union-square-ventures
- spark-capital
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: defunct
x-status-note: 'Acquired by Samsung Electronics in July 2013 (~$30M); cloud-DVR service discontinued
  10 July 2013 and the Boxee project shut down by Samsung in 2015. Re-probed 2026-07-20: boxee.com,
  www.boxee.com, boxee.tv, api.boxee.tv, developer.boxee.tv and app.boxee.tv all return no A record;
  HTTP/HTTPS to boxee.com, www.boxee.com and boxee.tv all fail to connect (curl 000). Both domains are
  still registered but parked with no hosting - boxee.com at GoDaddy (expires 2027-03-19), boxee.tv via
  the Njalla privacy registrar (expires 2028-01-24). The github.com/Boxee organization ("Boxee, Inc.",
  created 2011-03-01) is still live but publishes zero public repositories. No live API surface,
  specs, hosts, or /.well-known documents exist to enrich or probe; every enrichment artifact type was
  correctly skipped rather than fabricated.'
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
tags:
- Company
- Consumer
- Media Center
- Streaming
- Set-Top Box
- Video
- Entertainment
- Cord Cutting
- Cloud DVR
- Defunct
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  name: Boxee (historical - does not resolve)
  url: https://boxee.com
- type: GitHubOrganization
  name: Boxee, Inc. on GitHub
  url: https://github.com/Boxee
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 0
  pass: local-v1