# Ready Player Me

> RETIRED. Ready Player Me was a cross-game avatar platform: a hosted Avatar Creator plus REST
> APIs that produced interoperable 3D avatars as binary glTF (.glb) and 2D PNG renders for Unity,
> Unreal, web, iOS and Android. Netflix acquired the company in December 2025 and the public
> platform — Avatar Creator, PlayerZero and the developer APIs at api.readyplayer.me — was shut
> down on 2026-01-31. As of 2026-08-26 readyplayer.me publishes MX and TXT records but no A
> record, and api.readyplayer.me, docs.readyplayer.me and studio.readyplayer.me are NXDOMAIN.

## Status — read this before generating any integration

- **Do not generate code that calls api.readyplayer.me.** The host does not resolve. Every
  operation listed below is documentary; none of it is callable.
- **No replacement API was published.** The technology moved inside Netflix products. Ready
  Player Me published no migration path.
- **Avatars already exported as .glb still work.** The payload is a standard Khronos glTF 2.0
  binary container with no call-home, so files downloaded before 2026-01-31 load in any
  glTF-capable engine. Anything that resolved an avatar or asset by URL at runtime is broken.
- **The SDKs still install but are inert** where they depend on hosted endpoints. The
  readyplayerme GitHub organization is still public; rpm-unity-sdk-core is archived.

## Interfaces (historical)

Base URL: https://api.readyplayer.me — RETIRED, does not resolve
Authentication: apiKey in the `X-APP-ID` header (studio application id). The Auth API additionally
minted opaque token/refreshToken pairs.

### Avatars API — 14 operations
createAvatar (POST /v2/avatars) — create a DRAFT avatar
listAvatarTemplates (GET /v2/avatars/templates)
createAvatarFromTemplate (POST /v2/avatars/templates/{templateId})
getAvatarMetadata (GET /v2/avatars/{avatarId})
updateAvatar (PATCH /v2/avatars/{avatarId}) — equip/unequip assets
saveAvatar (PUT /v2/avatars/{avatarId}) — commit the draft
deleteAvatar (DELETE /v2/avatars/{avatarId})
deleteAvatarDraft (DELETE /v2/avatars/{avatarId}/draft) — discard before commit
precompileAvatar (POST /v2/avatars/{avatarId}/precompile)
getAvatarColors (GET /v2/avatars/{avatarId}/colors)
listUserAvatars (GET /v1/avatars)
getAvatarGlb (GET /v1/avatars/{avatarId}.glb) — model/gltf-binary
getAvatarPng (GET /v1/avatars/{avatarId}.png) — image/png
getAvatarGlbV2 (GET /v2/avatars/{avatarId}.glb) — model/gltf-binary

### Assets API — 4 operations
listAssets (GET /v1/assets) — page/limit pagination; filter by type, gender, application, user
getAssetGlb (GET /v1/assets/{assetId}.glb) — model/gltf-binary
getAssetThumbnail (GET /v1/assets/{assetId}/thumbnail.png) — image/png
listPhoenixAssets (GET /v1/phoenix-assets)

Asset types: hair, beard, outfit, shirt, top, bottom, footwear, headwear, facewear, glasses,
costume, custom, baseModel. Gender: masculine, feminine, neutral.

### Auth API — 5 operations
createAnonymousUser (POST /api/users)
authStart (POST /api/auth/start)
authLogin (POST /api/auth/login)
authRefresh (POST /api/auth/refresh)
getAvatarToken (POST /v1/auth/token)

## Machine-readable artifacts in this repo

- openapi/ready-player-me-avatars-api-openapi.yml — OpenAPI 3.0.3
- openapi/ready-player-me-assets-api-openapi.yml — OpenAPI 3.0.3
- openapi/ready-player-me-auth-api-openapi.yml — OpenAPI 3.0.3
- overlays/ — API Evangelist Overlay 1.0.0 enhancements (retirement markers, info repairs)
- lifecycle/ready-player-me-lifecycle.yml — acquisition, shutdown date, DNS evidence
- conventions/ready-player-me-conventions.yml — auth, pagination, versioning, reversibility
- data-model/ready-player-me-data-model.yml — entity graph
- conformance/ready-player-me-conformance.yml — standards, incl. glTF 2.0 domain standard
- packages/ready-player-me-packages.yml — npm + GitHub SDK currency
- components/ready-player-me-components.yml — embeddable Avatar Creator / renderer
- well-known/ready-player-me-well-known.yml — well-known probe (all hosts NXDOMAIN)
- authentication/ready-player-me-authentication.yml
- plans/, rate-limits/, finops/, vocabulary/, json-schema/, examples/, collections/

## Not available

- No error catalog — the definitions declare no 4xx/5xx responses at all.
- No AsyncAPI, no webhook catalog captured before the docs host was withdrawn.
- No MCP server and no A2A agent card — probed 2026-08-26, hosts do not resolve.
- No status page, no published deprecation policy, no OAuth scopes (API-key auth only).
- No Agent Skills are published for this provider, deliberately: packaged skills would instruct
  agents to call an API that no longer exists.

## Related

- GitHub organization: https://github.com/readyplayerme
- Acquisition coverage: https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/19/netflix-acquires-gaming-avatar-maker-ready-player-me/
- glTF 2.0: https://registry.khronos.org/glTF/specs/2.0/glTF-2.0.html

---
generated: 2026-08-26
method: generated
source: apis.yml, openapi/, and the 2026-08-26 DNS/HTTP probe recorded in lifecycle/
note: /llms.txt could not be fetched from the provider — docs.readyplayer.me and readyplayer.me
      do not resolve. This file is generated from the catalog, not harvested.