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BuzzFeed

BuzzFeed Inc. is a digital media company founded in 2006 and headquartered in New York City, best known for its viral entertainment, quizzes, pop-culture coverage, and commerce content. The company operates a portfolio of brands including the flagship BuzzFeed site, the news operation HuffPost, and the food brand Tasty, and produces video, podcasts, and shoppable content across web and social platforms. BuzzFeed is a publicly traded company (Nasdaq: BZFD) and monetizes through advertising, brand partnerships, and commerce. It does not publish a general-purpose public developer API program; its public machine-readable surface consists of content syndication (RSS feeds), an advertising/partnerships business, and a security.txt vulnerability-disclosure program via HackerOne. This profile was added to the API Evangelist network from an a16z portfolio lead and enriched with the provider's real public surface.

BuzzFeed is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Media, Publishing, News, and Entertainment.

BuzzFeed’s developer surface includes engineering blog and 12 more developer resources.

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12.9/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-21 · rubric v0.12.0
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CompanyMediaPublishingNewsEntertainmentContentAdvertising

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scored 2026-08-21 · rubric v0.12.0
Composite quality — 12.9/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.5 / 20
Access Clarity 4.2 / 20
Operational Transparency 1.4 / 13
Contract Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.9 / 10
Agent readiness — 3/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
Documented Reversibility 0 / 6
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 3 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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Security Posture 2

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

Buzzfeed Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Buzzfeed Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Resources

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown
WellKnown
 LLMsTxt
LLMsTxt

Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

SecurityTxt
SecurityTxt
 VulnerabilityDisclosure
VulnerabilityDisclosure
 Security
Security
 DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy
PrivacyPolicy
 TermsOfService
TermsOfService

Company 4

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 About
About
 Blog
Blog
 Press
Press

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Advertising
Advertising

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: buzzfeed
name: BuzzFeed
description: 'BuzzFeed Inc. is a digital media company founded in 2006 and headquartered in New York City, best known for
  its viral entertainment, quizzes, pop-culture coverage, and commerce content. The company operates a portfolio of brands
  including the flagship BuzzFeed site, the news operation HuffPost, and the food brand Tasty, and produces video, podcasts,
  and shoppable content across web and social platforms. BuzzFeed is a publicly traded company (Nasdaq: BZFD) and monetizes
  through advertising, brand partnerships, and commerce. It does not publish a general-purpose public developer API program;
  its public machine-readable surface consists of content syndication (RSS feeds), an advertising/partnerships business, and
  a security.txt vulnerability-disclosure program via HackerOne. This profile was added to the API Evangelist network from
  an a16z portfolio lead and enriched with the provider''s real public surface.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/buzzfeed/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- a16z
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
image: https://www.buzzfeed.com/static-assets/img/buzzfeed_arrow.e86a786d9e5e2250e1ed3e0ec95ba42d.png
tags:
- Company
- Media
- Publishing
- News
- Entertainment
- Content
- Advertising
apis: []
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.buzzfeed.com
- type: About
  url: https://www.buzzfeed.com/about
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.buzzfeed.com/index.xml
- type: Press
  url: https://www.buzzfeed.com/press
- type: Advertising
  url: https://advertise.buzzfeed.com/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.buzzfeed.com/about/privacy
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.buzzfeed.com/about/useragreement
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/buzzfeed-well-known.yml
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/buzzfeed-security.txt
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/buzzfeed-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Security
  url: https://www.buzzfeed.com/bug-bounty-program
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/buzzfeed-domain-security.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/buzzfeed-llms.txt
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

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