aid: chute
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://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/chute.png
name: Chute
description: >-
  Chute was a visual marketing automation platform (getchute.com) that helped
  brands discover, collect, rights-manage and publish consumer and
  user-generated visual content. Its product line spanned visual insights,
  digital asset management and content publishing, and it exposed a public REST
  API documented on Apiary (docs.chute.apiary.io) with first-party Ruby and
  Node.js client libraries. The company is defunct: the canonical domain no
  longer serves a site, the API and developer hosts do not resolve, the Apiary
  documentation returns 502, and the github.com/chute organization has been
  deleted. Only the abandoned package-registry entries survive. Retained in the
  API Evangelist network as a historical record of a former API provider.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/chute/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- a16z
- battery-ventures
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: defunct-provider
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
x-status: defunct
x-defunct:
  former_domain: getchute.com
  former_category: Visual marketing automation / user-generated content
  last_archived_site: https://web.archive.org/web/20160301000000/http://getchute.com/
  last_sdk_release: '2017-07-17'
x-enrichment-probe:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  finding: >-
    Re-probed and confirmed defunct. getchute.com is still delegated to AWS Route
    53 nameservers but publishes no A record, so neither the apex nor any
    api./developer./docs./www. subdomain resolves. The historical Apiary
    documentation host returns 502 and the github.com/chute organization is gone
    (the login was recycled by an unrelated user account created 2018-12-21, and
    chute-ruby / chute-node both 404). chuteapp.com resolves but is an Atom
    domain-for-sale listing, and the PyPI "chute" package is an unrelated
    discrete-event-simulation library. The only genuine surviving first-party
    artifacts are the abandoned RubyGems and npm client libraries, captured in
    packages/chute-packages.yml. No OpenAPI, well-known, MCP, webhook or
    security surface exists to search, derive or probe. Nothing was fabricated.
  probed:
  - {url: 'https://getchute.com/', result: dns-no-a-record}
  - {url: 'https://api.getchute.com/', result: dns-no-a-record}
  - {url: 'https://developer.getchute.com/', result: dns-no-a-record}
  - {url: 'https://docs.getchute.com/', result: dns-no-a-record}
  - {url: 'https://www.getchute.com/', result: dns-no-a-record}
  - {url: 'http://docs.chute.apiary.io', result: 502}
  - {url: 'https://github.com/chute', result: 200-recycled-unrelated-user}
  - {url: 'https://github.com/chute/chute-ruby', result: 404}
  - {url: 'https://github.com/chute/chute-node', result: 404}
  - {url: 'https://chuteapp.com/', result: 200-domain-for-sale}
  - {url: 'https://rubygems.org/gems/chute', result: 200-abandoned-2017}
  - {url: 'https://www.npmjs.com/package/chute', result: 200-abandoned}
  - {url: 'https://pypi.org/project/chute/', result: 200-unrelated-package}
tags:
- Company
- Defunct
- Visual Marketing
- User Generated Content
- Digital Asset Management
- Media
- Marketing
apis: []
common:
- type: Packages
  name: Client Libraries (historical)
  url: packages/chute-packages.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 1
  pass: local-v1