Egnyte API
Egnyte exposes a public API spanning File System, User Management, Audit Reporting, webhooks, MSP, and AI endpoints. Access is self-serve: register at developers.egnyte.com for a key, with OAuth 2.0 scoped tokens. Docs include an interactive console and a published throttling cookbook.
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Egnyte scores A on Supergood's API Report Card. Egnyte exposes a public API spanning File System, User Management, Audit Reporting, webhooks, MSP, and AI endpoints. Access is self-serve: register at developers.egnyte.com for a key, with OAuth 2.0 scoped tokens. Docs include an interactive console and a published throttling cookbook.
Egnyte has a workable official integration path. Most engineering teams can build against it directly. Open API: self-serve, documented, with SDKs
Egnyte is an enterprise content collaboration and governance platform founded in 2007 and headquartered in Mountain View, California.
Primary vertical: misc (horizontal content/document platform sold across regulated industries). Closest Supergood sub-vertical: Document Management Systems. A mid-sized AEC firm stores all active project content (drawings, RFIs, submittals, project photos, contracts) in Egnyte folders organized by project, with hybrid local storage at the jobsite or BIM workstation for large CAD/Revit files and cloud replication for distributed collaboration.
Medium-high within its niches; medium overall.
Egnyte sits on the content-critical path for the firms that adopt it, by name, it is the platform of record for active project files in AEC firms, controlled SOPs and validation evidence in life-sciences QMS, client documents and engagement files in regulated FS and legal practices, and high-value media assets in M&E.
Founded in 2007. Long-standing public REST API with OAuth 2.0 authentication (token request supports a 'scope' parameter to restrict tokens to specific APIs, e.g. 'Egnyte.filesystem').
Supergood's grades measure one thing: can a customer's engineering team get their own data out programmatically? Supergood checks six things (whether a real API exists, how access is gated, data coverage, auth quality, docs and developer experience, and stability) and rolls them into a letter grade. Supergood re-verifies grades, and they only move on evidence.
Egnyte scores GOOD on MCP availability. Egnyte publishes an official remote MCP server (mcp-server.egnyte.com) with OAuth, listed in the official MCP registry under the com.egnyte namespace. Setup guides for connecting Claude, ChatGPT, and Copilot Studio live in the Egnyte helpdesk, with recent updates adding write tools and admin controls.
Yes. Egnyte publishes an official MCP server, so MCP clients like Claude, Cursor, and Codex can connect to it directly. Setup instructions are in the vendor's documentation.