Dailyhunt Tracking API

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Dailyhunt Content Syndication Tracking API
  version: '2.3'
  description: 'The Dailyhunt Content Syndication API lets an approved partner pull Dailyhunt''s editorial catalogue into its own app, browser, device home screen or PWA. It exposes channel discovery (news, location, video and DailyShare/viral channels), paginated content fetch for the cards in a channel, keyword search across the catalogue, a supported-language list, a card feedback surface, a live cricket score and commentary stream, and a view-tracking endpoint that a partner must call back with the `trackData` of every card its user saw. Content is available in fourteen Indian languages. Every call is signed: the partner sends its API key in the `Authorization` header as `key=<API Key>` and a Base64-encoded HMAC-SHA1 `Signature` header computed over the lexicographically-sorted, URL-encoded query string plus the uppercased HTTP method, using the secret key Dailyhunt issues at onboarding. A per-user `puid` (partner unique user id) is required on every call and Dailyhunt returns a `dhFeedV1` cookie the partner must persist and replay. Access is partner-gated — API key, secret key and partner code are provisioned over email during onboarding, and the advanced surfaces (video channels, DailyShare cards, location channels, cricket) are additionally gated behind a per-partner feature mask (`pfm`).

    This OpenAPI was DERIVED by API Evangelist from Dailyhunt''s own public Partner Integration Reference (the Postman-published documentation at https://api-syndication.dailyhunt.in/, version 2.2/2.3) — every path, HTTP method, query parameter, header, response code, response field and example was transcribed from that published document and from the collection JSON it serves. It is NOT a provider-published specification. Dailyhunt publishes no machine-readable OpenAPI: probes of /openapi.json, /swagger.json and /api-docs on api-syndication.dailyhunt.in and developer.dailyhunt.in all returned HTTP 404 on 2026-08-04, and feed.dailyhunt.in does not resolve in public DNS (no A record) — the production host is reachable only to onboarded partners.'
  contact:
    name: Dailyhunt Content Syndication — Partner Integration
    url: https://api-syndication.dailyhunt.in/
  x-apievangelist-derived-from: https://api-syndication.dailyhunt.in/
  x-apievangelist-derived-source-artifact: postman/dailyhunt-content-syndication.postman_collection.json
  x-apievangelist-derived-on: '2026-08-04'
  x-apievangelist-provider-published: false
servers:
- url: http://feed.dailyhunt.in
  description: Production content feed host (partner-gated; does not resolve in public DNS as of 2026-08-04)
- url: http://qa-news.newshunt.com
  description: Stage integration environment for partner development and testing
- url: http://track.dailyhunt.in
  description: Production tracking host
security:
- ApiKeyAuth: []
  RequestSignature: []
tags:
- name: Tracking
  description: Partner callback reporting which cards a user actually saw.
paths:
  /api/v2/syndication/tracking:
    post:
      operationId: trackViewedItems
      summary: Report cards seen by the user
      description: Reports the cards a user actually saw. The partner posts an array of `{id, trackData}` pairs (the `trackData` value comes verbatim from the card in the Content Fetch response) together with the view timestamp. Callers should POST to the `trackUrl` returned by the Content Fetch API, appending `partner`, `puid` and `ts`, once per list view.
      tags:
      - Tracking
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Partner'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Puid'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Ts'
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/TrackingRequest'
      responses:
        '204':
          description: Successful processing. No content.
        '400':
          description: Bad request detected.
        '500':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/ServerError'
components:
  schemas:
    TrackingRequest:
      type: object
      properties:
        viewedDate:
          type: integer
          format: int64
          description: Time the user saw the item cards
        stories:
          type: array
          items:
            type: object
            properties:
              id:
                type: string
                description: Item id viewed by the user
              trackData:
                type: string
                description: Tracking data present in the item card
  responses:
    ServerError:
      description: Any unexpected issue at Dailyhunt.
  parameters:
    Ts:
      name: ts
      in: query
      required: true
      description: Current client timestamp in milliseconds; must be included in the signed parameter set.
      schema:
        type: integer
        format: int64
    Partner:
      name: partner
      in: query
      required: true
      description: The partner identification code issued by Dailyhunt at onboarding.
      schema:
        type: string
    Puid:
      name: puid
      in: query
      required: true
      description: The partner's unique id for the end user accessing the API (for example a device identifier). Dailyhunt maps it to an internal user id to personalize the feed.
      schema:
        type: string
  securitySchemes:
    ApiKeyAuth:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: Authorization
      description: The partner API key issued by Dailyhunt at onboarding, sent as `key=<API Key>`.
    RequestSignature:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: Signature
      description: Base64-encoded HMAC-SHA1 of the signature base string, computed with the partner secret key. The signature base string is the URL-encoded request query parameters sorted lexicographically by encoded key and joined with `&`, followed by the uppercased HTTP method. A `ts` (timestamp) query parameter must be present in the signed parameter set.
externalDocs:
  description: Dailyhunt Content Syndication — Partner Integration Reference
  url: https://api-syndication.dailyhunt.in/