AOL

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: free
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: true
  label: Free · App registration required
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-09-02'
  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: '2026-09-02'
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-oauth2-api
  name: AOL OAuth2 API
  description: OAuth 2.0 Authorization Code grant endpoints served by AOL at api.login.aol.com. Authorization, token exchange
    and refresh, plus the revocation and introspection endpoints AOL declares in its own OpenID Connect discovery document.
    Client authentication is client_secret_basic or client_secret_post; there is no client-credentials or device flow.
  humanURL: https://developer.yahoo.com/oauth2/guide/
  baseURL: https://api.login.aol.com
  tags:
  - Authentication
  - OAuth2
  tags_raw:
  - OAuth2
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/aol-oauth2-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/aol-oauth2-api-overlay.yaml
- 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
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: info@apievangelist.com
  X: apievangelist
  url: https://apievangelist.com
common:
- 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