AOL

AOL is a consumer internet media and communications brand — AOL.com news, AOL Mail, AOL Search and AOL Desktop — operated by AOL Media LLC. Founded as America Online, it was acquired by Verizon in 2015, folded into Oath and then Yahoo, and sold on to the Italian software company Bending Spoons in 2026; the security.txt AOL serves today points its PGP key at bendingspoons.com. AOL runs no developer program and publishes no product API. Its one publicly callable, machine-readable contract is the OpenID Connect provider at api.login.aol.com, which serves a full discovery document under its own issuer and lets a third-party application sign a user in with their AOL account. The legacy developer documentation for that identity stack is hosted by Yahoo Inc., which runs a sibling deployment of the same Oath-era OAuth 2.0 / OIDC platform.

AOL publishes 3 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including OpenID Connect API, O Auth2 API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include Digital Media, News, Entertainment, Advertising, and Identity.

The AOL catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

AOL’s developer surface includes engineering blog, authentication, support, signup flow, and 25 more developer resources.

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46.2/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 36/100 agent ready Front door AI 2/6 trace saas Full breakdown ↓
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1 published contract 2 Agent Skills

Digital Media News Entertainment Advertising Identity OpenID Connect Authentication Email Consumer Internet Fortune 1000

Kin Score

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Composite quality — 46.2/100 · developing

Contract Quality 9.4 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 6.7 / 15

Access Clarity 5.1 / 15

Operational Transparency 2.8 / 10

Contract Governance 2.9 / 9

Discoverability 5.5 / 8

Regulatory Posture 6.0 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 36/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 6 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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The six quality facets above are damped to 75 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 25. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 75% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document
Typed Event Surface +6 pts — AsyncAPI document, OR webhooks/callbacks objects in the as-published OpenAPI, OR common[].type includes Webhooks

6 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Access Clarity scores 34.2 — up to +13.2 composite points
Contract Quality scores 49.9 — up to +12.5 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 44.6 — up to +11.1 composite points

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Standards implemented 3

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OpenID Connect

measured — observed by APIs.io (declared)

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

OAuth 2.0

measured — observed by APIs.io (declared)

APIs 3

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Yahoo Developer Network (legacy documentation for the AOL identity stack)

AOL runs no developer portal of its own. App registration and the human documentation for the OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect endpoints AOL serves at api.login.aol.com live on the Ya...

AOL OpenID Connect API

OpenID Connect userinfo and JWKS endpoints served by AOL at api.login.aol.com under issuer https://api.login.aol.com. Standard claims including sub, name, email, email_verified,...

AOL O Auth2 API

OAuth 2.0 Authorization Code grant endpoints

Open Collections 3

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Yahoo (formerly AOL) OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect OAuth2 API

OPEN COLLECTION

Yahoo (formerly AOL) OAuth 2.0 and OAuth2 OpenID Connect API

OPEN COLLECTION

Yahoo (formerly AOL) OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect API

OPEN COLLECTION

Agent Skills 2

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

revoke-aol-access

AGENT SKILL

sign-in-with-aol

AGENT SKILL

AOL API pricing

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Aol Plans Pricing

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Aol Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Aol Finops

FINOPS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

AOL API Rules

62 rules · 60 errors 1 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

OpenAPI Overlays 2

Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.

Aol Oauth2 Api Overlay

6 actions · servers · aol-oauth2-api-openapi.yml

UNRECORDED

Aol Openid Connect Api Overlay

5 actions · servers · aol-openid-connect-api-openapi.yml

UNRECORDED

Security Posture 3

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Aol Authentication

oauth2/openIdConnect/http · 4 schemes

SECURITY

Aol Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Aol Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Aol Scopes

4 scopes · authorizationCode

4 scopes

SCOPES

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Aol Agentic Access

4 operations · 1 acting

AGENTIC

Press 5

Recent news and press coverage referencing this provider.

Bending Spoons' Post

Preparing for the workforce in the age of AI

AOL is sold in reputed $1.5B deal to tech conglomerate

Bending Spoons' acquisition of AOL shows the value ...

BBB warns about AI search use, details how to use it smartly

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

SignUp

SignUp

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

WellKnown

AgentSkill

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

ErrorCatalog

DataModel

Conformance

Lifecycle

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Packages

Packages

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 6

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

OAuthScopes

SecurityTxt

Security

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

StatusPage

StatusPage

RateLimits

RateLimits

Support

Support

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

FinOps

Plans

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Blog

Blog

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Overlay

Overlay

Source (apis.yml)

name: AOL
description: AOL is a consumer internet media and communications brand — AOL.com news, AOL Mail, AOL Search and AOL Desktop
  — operated by AOL Media LLC. Founded as America Online, it was acquired by Verizon in 2015, folded into Oath and then Yahoo,
  and sold on to the Italian software company Bending Spoons in 2026; the security.txt AOL serves today points its PGP key
  at bendingspoons.com. AOL runs no developer program and publishes no product API. Its one publicly callable, machine-readable
  contract is the OpenID Connect provider at api.login.aol.com, which serves a full discovery document under its own issuer
  and lets a third-party application sign a user in with their AOL account. The legacy developer documentation for that identity
  stack is hosted by Yahoo Inc., which runs a sibling deployment of the same Oath-era OAuth 2.0 / OIDC platform.
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - scopes
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/aol.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/aol/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-03-23'
modified: '2026-10-06'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
tags:
- Digital Media
- News
- Entertainment
- Advertising
- Identity
- OpenID Connect
- Authentication
- Email
- Consumer Internet
- Fortune 1000
apis:
- name: Yahoo Developer Network (legacy documentation for the AOL identity stack)
  description: AOL runs no developer portal of its own. App registration and the human documentation for the OAuth 2.0 / OpenID
    Connect endpoints AOL serves at api.login.aol.com live on the Yahoo Developer Network, because Yahoo Inc. built and still
    operates a sibling deployment of the same Oath-era identity platform at api.login.yahoo.com. This entry records that documentation
    surface; the callable AOL contract is the two API entries below.
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://developer.yahoo.com
  baseURL: https://api.login.yahoo.com
  tags:
  - Documentation
  - Identity
  - Yahoo
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.yahoo.com/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://developer.yahoo.com/oauth2/guide/openid_connect/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.yahoo.com/oauth2/guide/
  contact:
  - FN: Yahoo Developer Support
    url: https://developer.yahoo.com/forum/
- aid: aol:aol-openid-connect-api
  name: AOL OpenID Connect API
  description: OpenID Connect userinfo and JWKS endpoints served by AOL at api.login.aol.com under issuer https://api.login.aol.com.
    Standard claims including sub, name, email, email_verified, locale, birthdate and auth_time; ID tokens signed ES256 or
    RS256; AAL1/AAL2 assurance levels advertised.
  humanURL: https://developer.yahoo.com/oauth2/guide/openid_connect/
  baseURL: https://api.login.aol.com
  tags:
  - OpenID Connect
  - Authentication
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/aol-openid-connect-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/aol-openid-connect-api-overlay.yaml
- aid: aol:aol-oauth2-api
  name: AOL O Auth2 API
  description: OAuth 2.0 Authorization Code grant endpoints
  humanURL: https://developer.yahoo.com
  baseURL: https://api.login.yahoo.com
  tags:
  - OAuth
  - Authentication
  tags_raw:
  - OAuth2
  - Authentication
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/aol-oauth2-api-openapi.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: info@apievangelist.com
  X: apievangelist
  url: https://apievangelist.com
common:
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/aol-finops.yml
- url: https://www.aol.com/news/
  type: Blog
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/aol-oauth2-api-overlay.yaml
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/aol-agentic-access.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/aol-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/aol-scopes.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/aol-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/aol-problem-types.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/aol-data-model.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/aol-conformance.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/aol-lifecycle.yml
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.aol.com/
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/aol-well-known.yml
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/aol-security.txt
- type: Security
  url: security/aol-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/aol-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/aol-domain-security.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/aol-llms.txt
- type: Packages
  url: packages/aol-packages.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/aol-rate-limits.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/aol-plans-pricing.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/aol
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/aol
- type: Website
  url: https://www.aol.com
- type: Support
  url: https://help.aol.com/
- type: SignUp
  url: https://login.aol.com/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://legal.aol.com/terms/index.html
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://legal.aol.com/privacy/index.html
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-09-02'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 16
  pass: local-v1

AOL API — frequently asked questions

Does AOL have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 3 APIs from AOL, including Yahoo Developer Network (legacy documentation for the AOL identity stack), AOL OpenID Connect API and AOL O Auth2 API.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the AOL API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 2 OpenAPI specifications for AOL, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the AOL API?

AOL documents its authentication (oauth2/openIdConnect/http · 4 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Aol Authentication.

Is the AOL API ready for AI agents?

AOL has a Kin Score of 46.2 out of 100 (developing) and an Agent Readiness score of 36.1 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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