# Common Sense Media Reviews API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/common-sense-media/common-sense-media-reviews-api/  
**Provider:** Common Sense Media — https://apis.io/providers/common-sense-media/  
**Base URL:** https://api.commonsense.org/api/v3  
**Documentation:** https://www.commonsensemedia.org/developers

Common Sense Media Reviews API is one of 2 APIs that [Common Sense Media](https://apis.io/providers/common-sense-media/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. Tagged areas include Application, Books, Media, Movies, and Ratings. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation and an OpenAPI specification.

JSON REST API exposing Common Sense Media's reviews and ratings catalog. Each review includes recommended age, age-rating group (littleKids/kids/tweens/teens), star rating, content grid (educational, message, role-model, diversity, violence, sex, language, consumerism, drugs), parents-need-to-know guidance, talking points, and product metadata. Clients filter by media type, age range, star range, character strengths, topics, genres, and the Common Sense Selection award. Authentication uses a partner-issued x-api-key header. The API is GET-only, HTTPS-only, rate-limited to 100 unique requests per minute, and content is refreshed at most hourly.

## Machine-readable artifacts (6)

- **Documentation** — https://www.commonsensemedia.org/developers/api-overview
- **APIv3Overview** — https://www.commonsensemedia.org/developers/api/v3
- **SwaggerUI** — https://api.commonsense.org/docs/v3/
- **ImplementationGuide** — https://www.commonsensemedia.org/developers/api/implementation
- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/common-sense-media/refs/heads/main/openapi/common-sense-media-reviews-api-openapi.yml
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/common-sense-media/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other Common Sense Media APIs (1)

- [Common Sense Media system API](https://apis.io/apis/common-sense-media/common-sense-media-system-api/)

## Tags

Application, Books, Media, Movies, Ratings, Reviews, Television, Video Games

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/apis/common-sense-media/common-sense-media-reviews-api/). The API's provider profile, Kin Score and agent-readiness rating are at https://apis.io/providers/common-sense-media/.